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The player controls an insect-like fighter at the bottom of the screen referred to as the ''Bug Blaster''. The player can move left, right, up (to a limited height), and down to the bottom of the screen. While moving to avoid enemies, the player also fires darts in an attempt to hit and destroy foes. The main enemy, the centipede, appears in multiple segments. When the player hits a segment with a dart, that segment becomes a mushroom in the mushroom forest. If the centipede segment was in the middle of the centipede, the centipede splits into two portions of the remaining segments with the rear portion sprouting its own head. The player can face multiple centipedes, all of which descend and attempt to destroy the player. It is, therefore, advantageous for the player to focus shots on either the head or tailpiece of the centipede so as to limit the number of enemies to destroy. The head is worth 100 points when shot, whereas all other segments are worth only 10 points.
The original centipede is 10 to 12 segments long and always starts at the top of the playing area, and works its way down toward the ''Bug Blaster''. With each level, the centipede decreases in size by one segment, with the missing segment becoming its own head which moves at a faster speed. Centipedes always travel exactly left or right, and change directions and drop one level down each time they reach the edge of the screen or touch a mushroom of the forest. Mushrooms can be destroyed in an effort to prevent the centipede(s) from descending upon them as rapidly, but each mushroom requires four shots to eliminate. This pattern of segments starting out as heads until all segments have become individual heads, at which point, the games repeats itself beginning over with a single, full-length centipede.
==Advertising Blurb==
===From Back of Retail Packaging===
'''Get out your bug blaster and save that fungus! The thrill of the arcade game.'''
An insidious invasion of multiplying insects (centipedes, jumping spider, poisonous scorpions, and frenzied fleas) pose different perils to the mushroom patch. You must repeatedly blast enraged creepers and stubborn obstacles or lose your enchanted fungus. Remember to listen for the distinctive sounds of the attacking bugs, and watch out for blasted centipede segments, each one grows a new head!
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