/vr/ - Retro Games

The sequel was better, but no one ever wants to talk about it. Millipede and Dig Dug II were also leagues better than their respective progenitors.

I grew up on the second and third generations. Millipede is only a couple of years before my time, but I still play it to this day.

Honorable mention: Lady Bug. Definitely an overlooked gem from the classic arcade days. Indeed, it's "just another" Pac-Man clone, but it's an innovative one at that.

Nothing beats classic Millipede for me.

Some people complained that they ramped the difficulty up too much by making enemy patterns and appearances so chaotic, but isn't that the point? Everybody had already mastered Centipede, and Centipede's mechanics were so exploitable that you could easily set up conditions for playing the game indefinitely.

Of course, there's also Gauntlet and Gauntlet II. I'm more debated on Gauntlet II though. The difficulty was clearly balanced to be as greedy as possible, because food is made to appear so disproportionately late into the game that you'll literally die from starvation if you don't feed the machine more quarters.

I was born in the mid-eighties, so I just barely missed out on the early arcade generation. The NES was my first console, but my older brother later acquired a dedicated Pong machine, which we occasionally played.

I remember curiously picking up some arcade compilations for the PS1 in my teenage years and getting into classics like Gauntlet and Millipede. Some of the respective Atari-console ports of these games were too watered down for me to enjoy, but I did like the arcade originals. I think the farthest I can go back is 1980, when Centipede was released.

I'm also a sucker for some of the newer ports and remakes, like Centipede for PS1.

GET READY to be slaughtered by hordes of lightning-fast spiders

Centipede, Millipede, Black Widow and Donkey Kong 3, if you want to get technical.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Centipede or Millipede.