Trivia
Berzerk was named #10 in the “Top 25 Atari 2600” Games poll in Retro Gamer Magazine (Issue 46).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on May 01, 2008.
Atari's 2600 release on Berzerk came with a comic book of Atari Force #2. Here is that comic at AtariAge.com.
Berzerk was popular enough to have a song inspired by it on the full-length "Pac-Man Fever" album - "Goin' Berzerk".
On thing that was truly amazing about the coin-op arcade version of Berzerk is that it had digitally recorded dialogue. There were 16 spoken words stored on a small microchip, and they were put together in sequences to create complete sentences such as "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!" and "DESTROY THE HUMANOID!" This was technologically groundbreaking, but consider the cost. Almost a thousand dollars per word.
Contributed by
Maw (827) on Feb 16, 2005.
The coin-op version of Berzerk has the distinction of being associated with the first ever "video game death". Jeff Dailey, a 19-year old, suffered a heart attack in January 1981 shortly after playing the game.
Contributed by
WildKard (11891) on Feb 07, 2004.
