In Popular Culture
- In 1982, Buckner & Garcia recorded a song called "Ode to a Centipede" using sound effects from the game and released it on the album Pac-Man Fever.
- The artwork from the arcade machine cabinet is used for the cover artwork of the 2004 single "Reptilia" by the band The Strokes.
- Centipede is featured in a scene of the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again. In the scene, Domino (played by Kim Basinger) is playing the game during a charity event while James Bond (played by Sean Connery) attempts to make contact with her.
- In Going the Distance, Drew Barrymore's character has the high score on the Centipede game in the bar where she meets Justin Long's character, who has been trying to beat that score.
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