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Featuring the usual multi-legged creature wandering round the garden at high speed in between the mushrooms, and backed up by mushroom laying bugs, fleas and a spider that appears when you have shot down all segments of the centipede for the first time.

Starting with three lives, the objcet is to eliminate the centipede that is travelling down the screen before it, or any of the other insects get you. As you fire at the centipede, it breaks up and attacks from different angles.

If you kill the centipede, the game restarts with fresh sheet and, on the third sheet, a mushroom-laying bug will drop from the top of the screen. On the fifth, there are two centipedes to contend with, but it is difficult to reach this stage.

Although the sound levels are not high, graphics are good, but unfortunately the centipede, mushrooms and spider, along with your gun, are all in white, and lack colour variety. The only brief flash of colour is when you have shot down the centipede.

Centipede is an addictive game and PSS provides a quick-moving, all-action version. But I've seen better - and cheaper versions.