{"id":73,"date":"2007-05-02T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/centipedemillipede-mini-review\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T20:51:00","slug":"centipedemillipede-mini-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/centipedemillipede-mini-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Centipede\/Millipede Mini Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/media.teamxbox.com\/games\/ss\/1721\/full-res\/1177953284.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/media.teamxbox.com\/games\/ss\/1721\/full-res\/1177953284.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I downloaded Centipede\/Millipede for Xbox Live Arcade this morning and had a chance to play it for a while on my lunch break.  When I saw this was coming out I was actually looking forward to it because I played a lot of Centipede as a kid. I&#8217;m not into most retro Arcade games on the Xbox 360, but after all the quarter I put into Centipede 400 points is not really that much to play it as often as I want. The fact they put both games together for $5 is nice.  Sure, they are essentially the same game, but it is still a nice touch.  Both games offer the original and enhanced graphics as well as the original and a hard difficulty setting.  The enhanced graphics are a nice (but becoming expected) touch.  The controls are simple enough.  The left thumb stick moves you and the A button shoots.  It would have been nice to see the D-Pad also be able to move you and to be able to shoot with the triggers, but that is not really that big of a deal.  The controls were fine with the thumb stick and since I tend to hold the button down to shoot the A button worked ok.  It is not the same as using a trackball like I remember using in the arcades, but it works fairly well.  As one would expect most of the achievements are for reaching certain point totals, but there are a couple unique ones thrown in like &#8220;Destroy all mushrooms on the screen Centipede &#8211; Default difficulty.&#8221;  Still, most of them don&#8217;t seem to difficult to pick up.<br \/><b><br \/><\/b>Overall this is a pretty good value if you&#8217;re into the retro games.  Two games (even if one is a clone), each with enhanced graphics, for 400 points is pretty decent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I downloaded Centipede\/Millipede for Xbox Live Arcade this morning and had a chance to play it for a while on my lunch break. When I saw this was coming out I was actually looking forward to it because I played a lot of Centipede as a kid. I&#8217;m not into most retro Arcade games on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[7,5,30],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","category-xbox-live-arcade","tag-review","tag-video-game","tag-xbla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}