I wish the article said more about the game's development and less about the gender of its creator.
Woman Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth
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Re: Woman Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth
#12Was excited to read the article for the history on Centipede, then had to filter through a tired rant on gender in order to get to it. In contract, this interview with PacMan inventor Toru Iwatani in Programmers at Work is absolutely fantastic. http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/toru-iwatani-1986-pac...
If you want to stop reading "tired rants on gender", perhaps you should try and make it unnecessary for those rants to exist.
Are you saying that caseorganic's desire not to read rants about gender mean that he is sexist? That seems like a baseless (and insulting) assumption...
Re: Woman Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want to stop reading "tired rants on gender", perhaps you should try and make it unnecessary for those rants to exist.
Are you saying that caseorganic's desire not to read rants about gender mean that he is sexist? That seems like a baseless (and insulting) assumption...
Caseorganic is a woman, by the way.
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#14I've never heard of Centipede before, are there any other "popular" games of the time that are not talked about much any more? I know of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, games that are that much a part of pop culture, but I'd never heard of Centipede.
Stargate (best sidescroller ever), Galaga...most video games from 1981-3 were amazing.
Re: Woman Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying that caseorganic's desire not to read rants about gender mean that he is sexist? That seems like a baseless (and insulting) assumption...
Caseorganic is a woman, by the way.
I guess that makes me sexist for assuming male heh, what a plot twist! I'll leave my post as is for posterity.
Re: Woman Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth
#16I've never heard of Centipede before, are there any other "popular" games of the time that are not talked about much any more? I know of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, games that are that much a part of pop culture, but I'd never heard of Centipede.
Hrm... never heard of centipede? Not sure what you are looking for but this ( http://www.liketotally80s.com/top-20-80s-arcade-games.html ) has a good list...
Woah, for some reason I always thought Xevious was from 1986 or so. I'm kind of shocked how many great games came out from 1980-1982...
To that list I'd add Spy Hunter (don't want to think how many quarters I sank into this without ever getting very far) and Gaplus (my favorite of the Galaxion spin-offs).
Re: Woman Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth
#17I think they meant to say "Programmer Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth".
Re: Woman Behind 'Centipede' Recalls Game Icon's Birth
#18It's amazing how many more people complain about this:
Women receive fewer than a fifth of the bachelor's degrees awarded in computer science...
than this:
...even though they get nearly 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees...
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#20I've never heard of Centipede before, are there any other "popular" games of the time that are not talked about much any more? I know of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, games that are that much a part of pop culture, but I'd never heard of Centipede.
I really liked Gravitar and Asteroids.