CENTIPEDE · CHALLENGE OF 2026-09-28

HOW THE DAY WENT

Monday, September 28 brought CENTIPEDE, at level 3, and 12 people played.

FERDAM won with 2,809 points, just 82 ahead of FERXO17: a day settled by a hair. ADRIAN rounds out the podium with 2,295.

Among the top 10, the average was 1,564 points.

THE SCREEN

It used map 1 of the 2 that CENTIPEDE has. It was played at level 3, with the same seed for everyone: the same enemies and the same pieces in the same order.

THE MUSIC

Para Elisa (Bagatela n.º 25), L. van Beethoven, 1810.

It was not published in Beethoven's lifetime; it surfaced forty years after his death. Who Elise was is still unclear.

It is in the public domain, transcribed to chiptune with square and triangle waves, the way it would sound on an Atari 2600.

ABOUT TODAY'S GAME

The centipede zigzags down through a mushroom field laid out by the seed. Every segment you kill turns into a mushroom and splits the chain in two, so the field closes in on itself.

You move along the bottom strip and shoot upwards. The spider zigzags through your zone and the flea drops mushrooms when they run short.

· A point-blank spider (900) is the best deal in the game, and also what kills you. Shooting it up close is the difference between an average run and a good one.

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