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How many shots does it take to destroy a mushroom?

4. It takes four shots, although you only get 1 point for it.

Which is not an amount of points you can score by hitting the spider?

1200. You get 300 if he's farthest away from you he can be, 600 for halfway towards you, and 900 for very close to you. 1200 points is only scored on him in "Millipede" when he's point-black in your face.

Which insect cannot kill you?

Scorpion. The scorpion is actually more of a friend. He runs across the screen, way out of your range, poisons mushrooms so you can earn another 5 points per mushroom, plus is worth 1000 points if hit.

How many points is the flea worth?

200.

When the scorpion runs across the screen, what does it do?

poisons every mushroom in its path. When it touches a mushroom in its path, it poisons it, which nets you another 5 points when you die.

What turns into a mushroom if hit?

centipede head. A centipede head, if running alone and not near another mushroom, turns into a mushroom when hit.

When a centipede makes it to the bottom, it turns and goes back upwards. How many lines up does it go?

6. It'll go up 6 lines, then come back down, then go back up...until you kill it or it kills you.

When a centipede turns to go back upwards after hitting the bottom of the screen, all of the body segments left on it turn into centipede heads.

f. Only one body segment, if there is at least one, turns into a centipede head, and it runs back across the bottom of the screen.

Do the spiders wipe out mushrooms in their path?

y. If it goes over a mushroom, it wipes it out.

Buckner and Garcia wrote a song about “Centipede”.

t. Buckner and Garcia, of "Pac Man Fever" fame, wrote a song called "Ode to a Centipede" for the PMF album.