Arcade & Classic Games · 27

Centipede, released in 1981, used a trackball and was co-designed by Dona Bailey, one of the relatively few women designing major arcade games at the time. The design side has its own twist: A score display gives failure a souvenir. The run ends, but the number remains as evidence that the next coin has a target. A flashing bonus object is the machine asking whether greed is stronger than survival instinct.