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You have been sent into a building infested with robots, and must do your best to clear it out. Each room has a number of walls through the middle, which restricts your movement. There will be a number of bad guys in the room - on early screens they may be immobile and not shoot at you, but after a few levels, they become capable of shooting in multiple directions. You can shoot at them in 8 directions, but can't shoot diagonally while moving. There are gaps at the side of each room, through which you exit, before or after clearing the room (there is a bonus for clearance). You get an extra life every 2000 points.Screenshots
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Critic Reviews
Electronic Fun with Computers & Games | Feb, 1983 | 4 out of 4 | 100 |
The Atari Times | Aug 18, 2003 | 93 out of 100 | 93 |
Oldies Rising | Sep 30, 2013 | 16 out of 20 | 80 |
Atari HQ | 2000 | 8 out of 10 | 80 |
Le Geek | 2012 | 4 out of 5 | 80 |
Game Freaks 365 | Jul 11, 2008 | 7.3 out of 10 | 73 |
JoyStik | Dec, 1982 | 7 out of 10 | 70 |
Digital Press - Classic Video Games | Sep 25, 2004 | 7 out of 10 | 70 |
8-bit Central Retro Gaming | 2011 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Tilt | Jan, 1983 | 4 out of 6 | 67 |
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Trivia
Atari 8-bit port
The game is also in circulation for Atari 8-Bit computers, this is however believed to be the result of a leaked prototype and not an official release in the early '80s.Board game
In 1983, Milton Bradley adapted this video game into a boardgame.Comic book
Atari's 2600 release on Berzerk came with a comic book of Atari Force #2. Here is that comic at AtariAge.com.Death
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.References to the game
The famous phrases from the game "Intruder alert! Intruder alert!" and "Get the humanoid!" are sampled in the Futurama episode "Fear of a Bot Planet" where they are heard over a loudspeaker and by robots are chasing Fry and Leela. Also in The Simpsons episode "Homer Goes to College", Homer enters a residence where nerds are working at computers and one says "Intruder alert! Intruder alert!" while another says "Stop the humanoid!".Song
Berzerk was popular enough to have a song inspired by it on the full-length Pac-Man Fever album - Goin' Berzerk.Voices
The coin-op arcade version of Berzerk 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.Awards
- Retro Gamer
- Issue 46 - #10 in the "Top 25 Atari 2600 Games" poll
Related Web Sites
- The International Arcade Museum (extensive information about the arcade game machine)
- Wikipedia (free Encyclopedia entry)
wanax (338) added Berzerk (Atari 2600) on Apr 10, 2003
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