Every so often, you come across a comic that throws you for the sort of loop that makes you pause a few pages in and think, “I wasn’t at all prepared for how damned good this is.” Atari and Dynamite’s new Centipede series, based on the classic 1980s video game,…
Trace the history of video games back to its roots and, near the beginning, you’ll find Atari’s Centipede and Missile Command. The shoot-em-up games were early pioneers of the genre, and now they’re catching up with modern games by getting their very own movies.
Centipede was released in 1981 and, interestingly enough, was one of the first games to be co-designed by a woman, Dona Bailey. We love this quote from her, about the game: “I always thought it was really beautiful, like a shimmering jewel when you walked into the arcade.” Wow. Now…