Centipede (Arcade)
Centipede |
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Developer: Atari, Inc. This game has a hidden developer message. |
That darn arthropod!
Unused Graphics
In the test mode of the game, viewing the graphics, an unused Grasshopper enemy can be found. According to the developers, it was to serve the same role as the Spider does in the final game.
Hidden Message
Sitting at 0x0000018D in the 136001-407.d1 ROM is eight or so seemingly innocent nonsense bytes with a clever secret - if you convert them to binary, then replace the 0s with a dot and the 1s with a dash, you get the sentence "COPYRIGHT 1980 ATARI" in International Morse Code! According to programmer Ed Logg, this was used as a "code trap" with which to catch bootleggers in the act of ripping off Atari's code, and it was cited as such in at least one court affidavit.
hex 02 bb 5a 30 5f ee 7d a8 binary 0000001010111011010110100011000001011111111011100111110110101000 dots+dashes ......-.-.---.--.-.--.-...--.....-.--------.---..-----.--.-.-... with spaces ...... -.-. --- .--. -.-- .-. .. --. .... - .---- ----. ---.. ----- .- - .- .-. . decoded C O P Y R I G H T 1 9 8 0 A T A R I
The Centipede series
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Arcade | Centipede |
Atari 2600 | Centipede • Millipede |
ColecoVision | Centipede |
Intellivision | Centipede |
Atari 7800 | Centipede |
NES | Millipede (HAL Laboratory) • Millipede (Namco) |
Game Boy | Centipede |
Game.com | Centipede |
Windows, Mac OS Classic | Centipede |
PlayStation | Centipede |
Compilations | |
Game Boy | Arcade Classic No. 2: Centipede & Millipede |
Game Boy Advance | Centipede, Breakout, Warlords |
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