Kingpede

Kingpede is a 1-player Millipede clone for the TRS-80 CoCo.

The player controls a small character who can move in all directions about the bottom quarter of the screen, and fires vertically forwards. The player moves through a field of mushrooms, and tries to destroy all the kingpedes which approach from the top of the screen. The kingpede moves laterally on the screen until it hits an obstruction, at which point is moves down 1 row and reversed direction. When a kingpede is shot, it breaks into smaller components. When all kingpede components are destroyed, the player moves to the next level. Other enemies include spiders which move randomly about the bottom of the screen, bees which descend from the top of the screen leaving new mushrooms, earwigs which make mushrooms poisonous, inchworms, and ladybugs.

The player starts with 3 lives, and there are 3 levels of game difficulty.