Centipede was one of the most commercially successful games in the 1980s. The primary objective is to shoot all the segments of a centipede that winds down the playing field while avoiding being hit by various spiders, fleas and scorpions. This game was one of the first popular games that used a track ball for player control rather than a joystick.  

Centipede was co-developed by a four person team that included Donna Bailey and Ed Logg. Bailey, who was brought on to Atari after working as an engineer at General Motors on microprocessor cruise control systems, was the only woman programmer at the company during its arcade golden age and would go on to make games with Activision. Logg would later work on Gauntlet, Steel Talons, and San Francisco Rush: Extreme Racing

Developed by a woman, Centipede was also one of the first games with a notably significant female player base. Bailey’s preference for pastel colors and her goal to make the game visually striking combined with a fortuitous accident during development while adjusting a game monitor to help create its graphics.