Bug Squad
Bug Squad is a single screen shooter based on the arcade game Centipede
where you are a ‘Zappo’ squirtomatic all-purpose garden controller and you
must destroy a centipede type creature to complete each level. You control the
Zappo at the bottom of the screen and you move left or right, as well as
moving forwards and backwards a short distance firing upwards. The Centipede
appears at the top of the screen moving across the screen from one side to the
other and when it hits a piece of grass or the edge of the screen it moves
downwards and moves the opposite way.
If the centipede is shot by you then it splits into two and each part splits
into two each time it is shot. Also on screen is lots of grass which re-
directs the centipede and can be removed after a couple of shots for extra
points. As well as the grass there is a magnet, lawnmower and a flying bottle
and when these are shot then they leave behind more grass with the lawnmower
leaving poisonous grass. if you are hit by any of these as well as the
centipede then you lose one of three lives and when the centipede is removed
then it is on to the next level to face another one.
Bug Squad