# @stjamesiii on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZQ1toTRX5C
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66378326-stjamesiii-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-06T23:37:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jimmy (@stjamesiii) — https://gondola.cc/stjamesiii

## Caption

𝗜𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟰𝟲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗼

𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗘  is a fixed shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades.

Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the most commercially successful games from the golden age of arcade video games, and one of the first widely played by women and girls.

The primary objective is to shoot all the segments of a centipede that winds down the playing field.

Ed Logg, a supervisor, said that he did the design, while Dona Bailey did about half of the programming.

Bailey was one of the few female game programmers in the industry.

Logg believed that its design was not biased by sex, unlike a fighting or sports game. Bailey said: "I really like pastels ... I really wanted it to look different, to be visually arresting".

Bailey had only recently discovered video games when she heard the song "Space Invader" (1979) by The Pretenders and then played Space Invaders (1978), but she was one of the few American women at the time with experience in assembly language programming.

#ClassicGaming #RetroGaming #Centipede #1980

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## Tags

classicgaming, centipede, 1980, retrogaming

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