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Rapedes, or the Centipede's Revenge, is a copy of the age old arcade game, Centipedes. The scenario is as follows: a centipede is moving across the screen one side to the other getting closer to you all the time. The screen is scattered with mushroom-type objects through which the centipede cannot go so it has to come a step closer to you instead. These mushrooms can be shot at and destroyed by your laser if required.

The aim of the game is to shoot every segment of the centipede. As a segment is destroyed, it turns into a mushroom whilst the other segments move towards you independently. Once a centipede is totally destroyed, a new and more vicious one will appear. The scenario is good, as seen by the success of the arcade version, but is it not rather outdated?

The graphics are nice, but every movement is so painfully slow. If and when a spider appears to wreak havoc, it is so slow and predicatable that it is hardly worth worrying about. The explosions are little better and in soe cases far worse. An old theme has been copied poorly with obvious programming short-cuts which highlights a less than brilliant game. The potential is there, as can be seen from Artic's version of Centipedes, a version which is fast, furious and very exciting. What a shame this one is not.