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Centipede (revision 3)
Play Centipede (revision 3) online. Keep a firing lane through the mushrooms while leaving room to move away from spiders and descending heads.
Browser play

Arcade — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| RetroPad A / B / X / Y | Z / X / A / S |
| L / R | Q / E |
| Insert coin | V |
| START | Enter |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Centipede (revision 3)
Quick start
- Move the Bug Blaster with the trackball inside the lower area.
- Use Fire against approaching segments.
- Clear mushrooms where a firing lane will help.
- Move clear of spiders and watch any head that begins descending quickly.
Controls
Use the trackball to move the Bug Blaster around the lower play area. Fire shoots darts upward. Shoot all centipede segments to clear the wave. Destroyed segments leave mushrooms, and a middle hit splits the creature. Avoid every insect; a centipede touching a poisoned mushroom dives toward the player area.
Centipede (revision 3) — About this game
Centipede (revision 3) makes the mushroom field change as enemies are shot. Each destroyed segment becomes another mushroom, and breaking the middle of the creature splits it into independently moving sections. Mushrooms also make the advancing centipede turn and descend, so a useful firing lane changes the route of the next attack. The trackball allows movement throughout the lower area while spiders approach through the same space and scorpions poison mushrooms farther above.
Centipede (revision 3) Game manuals
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · arcade
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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