I have an Atari 2600 game called "Venture" where this thing chases you after a while that I was told years ago was called Evil Otto. Is Venture related to this game in any way?
I like how Mark busts out on some phat Atari remixes at the end of some reviews of the current game he's reviewing. Makes me want to work on an EP of Atari 2600 dubstep or techno tracks.
I think this is the best game in the world. I love it. Frenzy in the arcade is pretty awesome as well. I can play Berzerk for hours (not all one game, mind you) and never get bored! Great review!
@superandom Perhaps, but hands down, this was the best arcade game port to the Atari 2600. Oh, wait, Berzerk & also, Wizard of Wor. As close as you could get considering the 2600's limitations. Although Missile Command & Space Invaders were decent too ports too. Asteroids, although fun, lost much in the conversion, the original being vector based graphics & all. Now, a port of Asteroids to the Vectrex would have been awesome!
This is, without a doubt, and always will be, my favorite title on my beloved, wood grained, original Atari 2600. Perfect game just as it is. An update on this game on XBLA would scare me because I fear they would add backgrounds and change things too much. The beauty in this game is it's simplicity. Great game and great review!!!
I always loved how Atari games had such epic stories for such simple games. A shame this game didn't actually have an ending so that players could actually end the story. No "And lived happily ever after" for this game.
Berzerk was the first video game known to have been involved in the death of a player. In January 1981, 19-year-old Jeff Dailey died of a heart attack soon after posting a score of 16,660 on Berzerk.[8] In October of the following year, Peter Burkowski made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes, just a few seconds before also dying of a heart attack at the age of 18
I was at a flea market over the weekend, place was called Hoke E. Geez, and I was actually looking around for NES games... To my dismay, the only ones I could find, on ANY system really, were sports games. I HATE sports games. Until I came across a bunch of Atari 2600 games... I saw Berzerk, and I remembered this review... Mind you, I do not have an Atari 2600... But after seeing this, Atlantis, and Combat all in one spot, I decided to get one tomorrow after I cash my paycheck from work. :)
Let me know how it went for you. I use to own this game when I was younger. Berzerk was one of my most favorite games for the 2600 and it had very good art work. Although I do not remember being able to shoot diagonally or being able to kill Otto. I also do not remember the robots killing them selves so many times by running into walls either. This may have been the reason why I love Robotron and Smash TV so much and why I want more games like them.
I played it on Atari 2600 when I was about 10 years old(I was born in 1972),but I also tried hardly on the arcade coin-operated machines.But the game Berzerk of Atari 2600 was much confortable,less complicated and variable,because I did not have the need to insert coins on the arcades coin-operated machines too often.
Turning the robot's rapid fire into a dance beat at the end had me rolling! Back in the day I'd let those robots just shoot at a wall while I would dance around the room to the beat. CLASSIC!
If you can find it you should do a review of Berserk for 5200 it was very close to the arcade version in look and even featured the voice samples like "Chicken come back and fight like a robot" or "stop the humanoid/ Stop the intruder" " from the arcade
On a side note, the Atari 2600 games had some of the best instruction manuals and boxes of any system, ever. Look at the cover of this game, or Yar's Revenge, or Defender...sure the game graphics may have just been blocks on a solid background, but the artwork on the package is what encouraged you to use your imagination when playing. It really brought the games to life!
random fact: after a total of 17 minutes of no movement from the player, the game will force reset itself: basically a kill timer. Odd that the programmers thought to put in such, eh?
My favourite game too! Its actually the first game someone got a heart attack and died from, that's why Otto is so scary, he watched the guy die, but kept on smiling...
YAY for two reasons- I'm not the only one who made the Maximilian connection with these robots and I'm not the only one who remembers "Black Hole." LOL
shoot into the right side exit, and the shot will come out of the left, I think the instructions even mentioned that. :) Love the robot designs in the manual. Also, someone made an awesome rom hack of this into a Dr. Who game where ya fight pretty convincing looking Daleks. :D
My favorite single player 2600 game as well. When the robots moved sideways, they always looked like McDonald's Fry Guys to me. I used to hate it when your laser would hit their's and you would be stuck and if you moved you would get hit . Oh and when the game was set so that you couldnt kill otto, that was hard.
Well, ok, so it's just about getting a high score. I can appreciate that. It's still pretty dull. Perhaps the arcade looked more polished and perhaps it would have meant more to play the arcade first.
I'm sorry, but this video game, like many on Atari 2600, is agonizingly boring. I put it in the same category as Pitfall. It goes on forever and ever and seems to have absolutely no point. Going from screen to screen shooting a bunch of characters that all look the same, with no end in sight. How is this game fun? I just don't get it.
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How can you not get how people love Halo?? It's filled with vast horizons of gorgeous photo-realistic graphics, stunning detail, razor-sharp visuals, incredible sound quality, a huge campaign mode to explore the trilogy in.
You might not find it interesting, but surely you can understand that people just have a preference for it. But Berserk is moving from one same screen to another, never changing.
dogeymon83, I was referring to the gameplay. Circle-strafing and bunny-hopping got boring for me in a few minutes, the last time I played a game like this (UT 1). I prefer "tactical" shooters...or even 2d shmups.
@Leoooonard Quake 1? I liked the grenade launcher in quake... As far as I remember, when it came out, the game ran and looked like crap on my crappy computer back then, so I don't have fond memories of it. I did like some of the mods for UT99 and quake 3.
@SuperGuyincognito quake 1 and 2 still have a strong and living community actully. no the game does not look like crap unless you had a bad pc back in the day. i still play it to this day.
check out the "DDE3 - Why QuakeWorld is better than any other FPS game" video on youtube and "get quaked 3".
but also these are HARDCORE fps games, the popular fps games now are on consoles and are way slower and in my opinion not as fun.
@jayjayteam The original OF (the one released ten years ago) was fun. Lately, when I join ArmA 2 servers, most people are playing weird "cops and robbers" mods... :(
to dogeymon83 listen kid you dont have any respect for the consoles that ;ayed the foundation for the new ones that u play now so shut the fuck up and go home to your mom
Have you even played this game? Before you judge a game just by the look, you need to play it. "How is this game fun?" Well how is a game like WoW fun? It really has no end and when the servers go down it will basically cease to exist. Yet millions of people play it.
Back in the early 80's it was about having fun and getting a high score. It was not about the graphics or look of the game. I have played this game in the arcade before and it looks exactly like this. It's just fun to play
Of course I've played Berserk. I own it for my Atari 2600. I appreciate simple Atari games. I understand the fun of getting high scores.
But Berserk is extremely dull. But someone explained a little more about it, and I suppose I sorta get it. So you don't need to try to "convert" me. I'm alright.
some guy tried to break a record, I forgot the actual reason so maybe he just was an addict. anyway, he played the game standing for 20+ hours or so and than had a serious heart attack that killed him.
i am surprised you didn't note the fact that you can shoot through one side and it comes out the other..i love that! i'm going to break this game out again now
It was the speech synthesis in the arcade game that made berzerk so creepy - "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!!", "Human, you do not have long to live" (or something like that), "destroy the human" - really good stuff back then!
Someone made a Dr. Who hack of this one. You play as the 4th Doctor ( The humanoid sprite had the hat and scarf ) and the robots were now Daleks, the eyesticks were the parts rotating. And Evil Otto was replaced with a Davros face..
I've always liked this game. The Arcade version had some cool and funny voice effects. Like if you leave a screen without killing all the robots Otto says in an awesome 80's robot voice, "Coward! Fight like a robot!" The robots taunt you when they kill you and when you lose all your lives. And Otto gets mad when you clear a stage. Truly an awesome game.
Arcade version actually did enhance the game, not by better graphics since that's clearly not the case but by talking robots, run off the screen and they robots will call you chicken and will say shoot the chicken in the next screen. It's actually funny to see games actually talking down at you and more games need it. That's one of the reasons why I play "bite the bullet" on my PC. Constantly tells you that you suck and that you are a moron. Why can't more games lower your self esteem.
I remember sitting and playing this game for HOURS, back in 1982- oh, and how much homework did I NOT DO as a result. Like kiddie heroin this game was/is, being so damned addictive. Almost as bad as was Pitfall, Yar's Revenge,or Space Invaders!
I hate Evil Otto. He's too hard to escape and/or he forces you to run into robot fire. It's just not fair. I prefer the versions without Otto so it's just me and the robots.
While I agree that no amount of HD graphics or such could improve this game, I must mention that a joystick might not be the absolute best means of control. A nice little analogue stick, perhaps?
This is certainly a "throw-back". A game that kicked my ass when I was around 11 or so. Never got to beat it or play long enough to love it, in fact, I kinda hated it...mainly because the robots just kept on beating me. Great game, very challanging, and fun.
What the hell is your deal with commenting in every review of an atari game as it being primitive? It is what it is man. NES is primitive by todays standards as well. I have a hard time believing youre over 18.
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iam 33..i had an atari in 82..it sucked when nes came out in 85..it was like a breath of fresh air..nes and sega master system are all time best 8 bit gaming systems ..the 3 dimentional bullshit that is out today sucks..i want to play a video game ..not watch a movie...the classic shit is the best..but i think atari was just to primitive...but primitive man was not dumb he was a skilled hunter..i also believe that god created man ..and we did not come from ape like creatures.
But anyway back to NES - I have a hard time thinking of an NES game that I would want to play again. Maybe Super Mario because it has that "adrenaline feel" but that's about it. The rest of the games like FF1 and Zelda are dull and aged poorly (in my humble opinion).
Moden Final Fantasies and Zeldas are fun, but not the old 8-bit ones. I just can't stand their glacial pace.
I was fortunate to play arcade berzerk back in the day, and the beauty of the 2600 port is that its very close. That is how games where judged back then, by how close they where to the arcade originals.
I have an Atari 2600 game called "Venture" where this thing chases you after a while that I was told years ago was called Evil Otto. Is Venture related to this game in any way?
uofm97 2 weeks ago
@uofm97 No, Venture is another game entirely. Was an arcade game brought out by Exidy(see KLOV for details).
charlesn898 1 week ago
@charlesn898 Okay, thanks.
uofm97 1 week ago
hey this look kinda decent!:)
OmarSuperMario1000 3 weeks ago
who im i playing as in this game a men's room logo shooting at robots?
Rowed1911 2 months ago
Am I the only one who wishes there was a two player deathmatch mode in Berzerk? Kind of like Outlaw, but you have full reign of the screen?
glitchedgamer 3 months ago
Evil Otto.... the mascot for Wal-Mart and the bane of the small business...
SpetsnazFP 3 months ago
update version ~ pls ~ & cloud gaming :)
TJae1 4 months ago
Actually some badass music would be welcomed.
Leishmaniasisably 4 months ago
berzerk ~ re-boot ~ atari ~ pls :)
twilight9202 4 months ago
This game made me piss myself when I was 4
Cha4k 4 months ago
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Morahman7vnNo2 5 months ago
what kind of wussy would play without EVIL OTTO....fear him
cyclo1224 5 months ago
I like how Mark busts out on some phat Atari remixes at the end of some reviews of the current game he's reviewing. Makes me want to work on an EP of Atari 2600 dubstep or techno tracks.
deadlygroove1 5 months ago in playlist Classic Game Room Atari Reviews
the atari 2600 cartridges had some bad ass art covers.
monos70 6 months ago
3:45 Fat Samus xDDDD
OhJustCallMeLuke 6 months ago
lol, people hate on these games don't realize that these were the first steps towards the games people play these days, bleh ignorance
matthewgroen 7 months ago
Another nice feature about this game? The player's death noise!
Best. Death noise. EVAR!
netsurferx1 7 months ago
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Yeah, that's how you should die in Halo
dragonsder 6 months ago
When comparing this to Call of Duty, this game looks well... BETTER!
SuperStrelko 7 months ago
lol otto looks like a gay beach ball with a asian face
treatyoself2tee 7 months ago
Yep, definitely better than Far Cry Vengeance.
TheBlacKoopa 7 months ago
What's the music at 0:01 to 0:07?
rehzon 7 months ago
@rehzon its the CGR theme!
megatroid47 7 months ago
you killed Otto!!!! No one can ever kill Otto!!!!!
disciple90633 7 months ago
Never knew that a robot's rapid fire against the wall could actually make for a good beat. Funky.
NightSprinter 7 months ago
~Intruder Alert, Intruder Alert!! The Humanoid must not escape! ~ Berzerk, oh how I loved that arcade machine.
concretespecial 9 months ago
this was my favorite game... I always cracked up when i got shot/hit the wall for some reason i thought it was really funny
Icedoggy924 9 months ago
The sounds in the game alone, bring me back to my early school days. Such a classic!
MetalJesusRocks 10 months ago
The robots remind me of the Yellow Demon (AKA Rock Monster) from Mega Man.
WebVMan 10 months ago
Has any one noticed that when the Man shoots the robots the they blow up in a smiley face. Watch very carefully....
jeremyrulz777 10 months ago 33
@jeremyrulz777 i was just about to say that lol.
monkyman26O 9 months ago
@jeremyrulz777 They do
evildonutlaser 1 month ago
When you shoot the auto mazeon's the evil otto smiley face appears for a brief moment.
skyblue11685 10 months ago
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This is my favorite atari game. I wrote a song based on it :) its on my channel. -Al
Dwimmertube 11 months ago
In the arcade version the bots were allowed to shoot diagonally making the game even harder. Frenzy is the sequel to Berzerk.
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I love this game... You should check out my band's song that is based on this game :) its in our channel. - Al
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humanimal1738 11 months ago
the cod of the 80's lol
p3kr1s 11 months ago
I think this is the best game in the world. I love it. Frenzy in the arcade is pretty awesome as well. I can play Berzerk for hours (not all one game, mind you) and never get bored! Great review!
EnjoyVideoGaming 11 months ago
This game has literally killed some people.
Satantransvertdeath 11 months ago
It doesn't matter if you did bring your atari 2600 and any game you wanted.
No plug=No fun :'(
TheAleksandroid 1 year ago
You know the robots explode into smiley faces, I guess Evil Auto (Otto?) is a ghost, the ghost of a robot, to be exact.
orionpax55 1 year ago
Berzerk rocks, but the 2600 is no VECTREX
JusticePain666 1 year ago
The best part about this game, is that if you position yourself correctly, the lasers the robots shoot can go through your neck and you don't die.
moebigsley1976 1 year ago
if i was choseing a vectrex game to take... I would chose the multi cart
MrDavidtron7 1 year ago
The vectrex version is obv better.
superandom 1 year ago
@superandom Perhaps, but hands down, this was the best arcade game port to the Atari 2600. Oh, wait, Berzerk & also, Wizard of Wor. As close as you could get considering the 2600's limitations. Although Missile Command & Space Invaders were decent too ports too. Asteroids, although fun, lost much in the conversion, the original being vector based graphics & all. Now, a port of Asteroids to the Vectrex would have been awesome!
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vythsawer 1 year ago
This is, without a doubt, and always will be, my favorite title on my beloved, wood grained, original Atari 2600. Perfect game just as it is. An update on this game on XBLA would scare me because I fear they would add backgrounds and change things too much. The beauty in this game is it's simplicity. Great game and great review!!!
concretespecial 1 year ago
great stuff - 30yrs ago :-)
twilight9202 1 year ago
The Vectrex version is so much better.
Luigi84289 1 year ago
Love the death noise on this game!
Easily the best death noise ever...Of all time.
netsurferx1 1 year ago
I always loved how Atari games had such epic stories for such simple games. A shame this game didn't actually have an ending so that players could actually end the story. No "And lived happily ever after" for this game.
jimbox114 1 year ago
The guy on the artwork makes me think of Luke Skywalker.
Quartrez 1 year ago
The robots er, Automazeons could shoot diagonally in the Arcade version. It was pretty brutal.
jaspertine9 1 year ago
Evil Otto is badass
kulemv 1 year ago
Berzerk was the first video game known to have been involved in the death of a player. In January 1981, 19-year-old Jeff Dailey died of a heart attack soon after posting a score of 16,660 on Berzerk.[8] In October of the following year, Peter Burkowski made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes, just a few seconds before also dying of a heart attack at the age of 18
codyc67 1 year ago
why reviewing it again?
aapenjong 1 year ago
i wish they'd release this for game room on xbl or psn
xHAZELRAHx 1 year ago
I was at a flea market over the weekend, place was called Hoke E. Geez, and I was actually looking around for NES games... To my dismay, the only ones I could find, on ANY system really, were sports games. I HATE sports games. Until I came across a bunch of Atari 2600 games... I saw Berzerk, and I remembered this review... Mind you, I do not have an Atari 2600... But after seeing this, Atlantis, and Combat all in one spot, I decided to get one tomorrow after I cash my paycheck from work. :)
chosentonessournotes 1 year ago
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Let me know how it went for you. I use to own this game when I was younger. Berzerk was one of my most favorite games for the 2600 and it had very good art work. Although I do not remember being able to shoot diagonally or being able to kill Otto. I also do not remember the robots killing them selves so many times by running into walls either. This may have been the reason why I love Robotron and Smash TV so much and why I want more games like them.
Jerrid3 1 year ago
i love the robots eyes the way they rotate around
cyclo1224 1 year ago
LOL @ BG.
antdude 1 year ago
I played it on Atari 2600 when I was about 10 years old(I was born in 1972),but I also tried hardly on the arcade coin-operated machines.But the game Berzerk of Atari 2600 was much confortable,less complicated and variable,because I did not have the need to insert coins on the arcades coin-operated machines too often.
123456RaulMorales 1 year ago
Don't you play as Otto in the game called Venture? Eerily similar.
gamecollect101 1 year ago
You forgot to mention that two ppl died of heart attacks after playing the b&w arcade version
You need to know this ppl!!!!!!
pacpc 1 year ago
Yeap Atari Artworks really nice :)
Texhno 1 year ago
if youd be on that island with bezerk youd get a pretty damn high score, probaly the world record
hongdekong 1 year ago
Heck yeah. I love this game. Great video.
TigerClawTV 1 year ago
Loved this game.Great cover too.The Atari XL computer version even had sampled speech!
johnwx777 1 year ago
did anyone notice when the robots blow up they have smily faces?
StickPeopleAndPuff 1 year ago
@StickPeopleAndPuff The explosion graphics are that of Evil Otto, only it's a negative image of him lol
acolyteman 1 year ago
@StickPeopleAndPuff yeah. weird,huh?
ShadowLivesonForever 1 year ago
somehow in berserk i once dropped my gun and the automazeons didnt have the decency to let me grab it.
ransman413 1 year ago
i scored so high on mode 1 that it reset on me:(
ransman413 1 year ago
What's your highest score on Berzerk?
rh7889 1 year ago
I love that you have to use your imagination to play ATARI 2600 ! ;) If you have a great imagination you can see that it looks like GTA IV ;)
lowes48impala 1 year ago
Should also be on the Vectrehhh... HOLY SH*T!!!! IT IS!!! F*UCK YEAH!!!
wiiDSplayer4life 1 year ago
I had this game!!!!!!
nice one
ELtercermundista82 1 year ago
i played this game 5 sec and shutted the game
santtu13 1 year ago
this is better on a vectrex
GamerBoyGod 1 year ago
Berzerk was simply beautiful!
cobrabase 1 year ago
@cobrabase And still is. I even made my own board game of it back in the day ; )
sleinfer 1 year ago
My favorite Atari game ever!
sleinfer 1 year ago
Turning the robot's rapid fire into a dance beat at the end had me rolling! Back in the day I'd let those robots just shoot at a wall while I would dance around the room to the beat. CLASSIC!
toomanynotes1 1 year ago
If you can find it you should do a review of Berserk for 5200 it was very close to the arcade version in look and even featured the voice samples like "Chicken come back and fight like a robot" or "stop the humanoid/ Stop the intruder" " from the arcade
Evilmonkey66699 1 year ago
@Evilmonkey66699 he hates atari and 5200. i don't
BiffsGamingVideos 1 year ago
On a side note, the Atari 2600 games had some of the best instruction manuals and boxes of any system, ever. Look at the cover of this game, or Yar's Revenge, or Defender...sure the game graphics may have just been blocks on a solid background, but the artwork on the package is what encouraged you to use your imagination when playing. It really brought the games to life!
Skyrift 1 year ago
Ah yeah, Berzerk.
Before there was a bomb-laden zombie...before there were Devilsaurs or Fel Reavers...there was Evil Otto.
I loved this game, but I hated that smiley-faced bastard.
Skyrift 1 year ago
Nice keep it up n let no one bring you down. thats what i do.
xxxrandomjamezxxx 1 year ago
Otto reminds me of getting killed in Faceball 2000.
"Have a nice day"
heardofrvb 1 year ago
god damn evil otto i was so glad that you could kill that jerk in frenzy
nibelung34343 1 year ago
i like shooting the robots in a certain way when i get the chance LOL just fo r the heck of it
ransman413 1 year ago
I think the art designer for this game was inspired by Gundam. The Auto-mazeon at 3:47 looks like a Zeon Gogg.
jashugan007 1 year ago
WHy cant i Get this game online!
ransman413 1 year ago
Evil otto came from Jim Otto a taddletale worker at atari who grinned when he chawed you out!
ransman413 1 year ago
random fact: after a total of 17 minutes of no movement from the player, the game will force reset itself: basically a kill timer. Odd that the programmers thought to put in such, eh?
kurisux 2 years ago
The arcade version is very very similar to the 5200 port. Both are classic.
deconstructionist67 2 years ago
My favourite game too! Its actually the first game someone got a heart attack and died from, that's why Otto is so scary, he watched the guy die, but kept on smiling...
thejobe 2 years ago
YAY for two reasons- I'm not the only one who made the Maximilian connection with these robots and I'm not the only one who remembers "Black Hole." LOL
kamikaze9699 2 years ago
I'm playing this on my 2600 emulator. Its loads of fun. Thanks for recomending this game to me! ^ ^
TheMilfman7 2 years ago
shoot into the right side exit, and the shot will come out of the left, I think the instructions even mentioned that. :) Love the robot designs in the manual. Also, someone made an awesome rom hack of this into a Dr. Who game where ya fight pretty convincing looking Daleks. :D
TheCastellan 2 years ago
You know the guys that made robotron and smash tv, took some ideas from this game.
kdj29 2 years ago
My favorite single player 2600 game as well. When the robots moved sideways, they always looked like McDonald's Fry Guys to me. I used to hate it when your laser would hit their's and you would be stuck and if you moved you would get hit . Oh and when the game was set so that you couldnt kill otto, that was hard.
kdj29 2 years ago
This is the best game for atari 2600. IT required quick eye hand coordination, especially in the higher levels.
leopold82 2 years ago
Well, ok, so it's just about getting a high score. I can appreciate that. It's still pretty dull. Perhaps the arcade looked more polished and perhaps it would have meant more to play the arcade first.
dogeymon83 2 years ago
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I'm sorry, but this video game, like many on Atari 2600, is agonizingly boring. I put it in the same category as Pitfall. It goes on forever and ever and seems to have absolutely no point. Going from screen to screen shooting a bunch of characters that all look the same, with no end in sight. How is this game fun? I just don't get it.
dogeymon83 2 years ago
dogeymon83, "How is this game fun? I just don't get it."
I feel the same way about Halo (and Quake, UT, etc.) I like Operation Flashpoint and Battlefield games, though.
SuperGuyincognito 2 years ago 7
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How can you not get how people love Halo?? It's filled with vast horizons of gorgeous photo-realistic graphics, stunning detail, razor-sharp visuals, incredible sound quality, a huge campaign mode to explore the trilogy in.
You might not find it interesting, but surely you can understand that people just have a preference for it. But Berserk is moving from one same screen to another, never changing.
dogeymon83 2 years ago
dogeymon83, I was referring to the gameplay. Circle-strafing and bunny-hopping got boring for me in a few minutes, the last time I played a game like this (UT 1). I prefer "tactical" shooters...or even 2d shmups.
SuperGuyincognito 2 years ago 2
@SuperGuyincognito how cant you like quake if your and old school gamer :S? its a fucking classic
Leoooonard 1 year ago
@Leoooonard Quake 1? I liked the grenade launcher in quake... As far as I remember, when it came out, the game ran and looked like crap on my crappy computer back then, so I don't have fond memories of it. I did like some of the mods for UT99 and quake 3.
SuperGuyincognito 1 year ago
@SuperGuyincognito quake 1 and 2 still have a strong and living community actully. no the game does not look like crap unless you had a bad pc back in the day. i still play it to this day.
check out the "DDE3 - Why QuakeWorld is better than any other FPS game" video on youtube and "get quaked 3".
but also these are HARDCORE fps games, the popular fps games now are on consoles and are way slower and in my opinion not as fun.
Leoooonard 1 year ago
@SuperGuyincognito unreal tournament??? you heretic bastard!!! you should be dead by now!!!
rob45645 1 year ago
@SuperGuyincognito i think that Of is boring but battlefield is awsome. well bf2 is best
jayjayteam 10 months ago
@jayjayteam The original OF (the one released ten years ago) was fun. Lately, when I join ArmA 2 servers, most people are playing weird "cops and robbers" mods... :(
SuperGuyincognito 10 months ago
to dogeymon83 listen kid you dont have any respect for the consoles that ;ayed the foundation for the new ones that u play now so shut the fuck up and go home to your mom
mattnintendonerd 2 years ago
Have you even played this game? Before you judge a game just by the look, you need to play it. "How is this game fun?" Well how is a game like WoW fun? It really has no end and when the servers go down it will basically cease to exist. Yet millions of people play it.
Back in the early 80's it was about having fun and getting a high score. It was not about the graphics or look of the game. I have played this game in the arcade before and it looks exactly like this. It's just fun to play
superlugia3 2 years ago 6
Of course I've played Berserk. I own it for my Atari 2600. I appreciate simple Atari games. I understand the fun of getting high scores.
But Berserk is extremely dull. But someone explained a little more about it, and I suppose I sorta get it. So you don't need to try to "convert" me. I'm alright.
dogeymon83 2 years ago
@superlugia3 what game are you tlking about? i'm pretty shure ive never heard of it.can you explain?
angelpichu1 11 months ago
@superlugia3 Berzerk is FREAKING AMAZING!!!!! I bought it in a pawn shop for my dad's Atari and I was addicted for a while.
BLEAHGames124365 10 months ago
@dogeymon83 Meg, who let you back in the house?
nobluetown 1 year ago
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Berserk is fucking terrible.
tehcexymeowmix 2 years ago
so are you
mattnintendonerd 2 years ago
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evil auto?
PlaystationMasterPS3 2 years ago
Apparently this was the first video game that caused a death.
lookatmedriving 2 years ago 19
@lookatmedriving How?
WiiNetwork2 1 year ago
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Someone played it for so long they had a heart attack.
lookatmedriving 1 year ago
@lookatmedriving Seriously?
WiiNetwork2 1 year ago
@lookatmedriving Yea i think two people did. Thats crazy.
livendapast 1 year ago
@lookatmedriving I thought it was the Arcade version that caused the heart attacks of those two men, not the Atari 2600 version.
CO9207 1 year ago
@lookatmedriving REALLY??? how?
lowes48impala 1 year ago
@lookatmedriving
Explain?
Thumper17 1 year ago
@lookatmedriving how?
hongdekong 1 year ago
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some guy tried to break a record, I forgot the actual reason so maybe he just was an addict. anyway, he played the game standing for 20+ hours or so and than had a serious heart attack that killed him.
Ch33s3k4k3 1 year ago
wind squid is his game name
rankdoby 2 years ago
i am surprised you didn't note the fact that you can shoot through one side and it comes out the other..i love that! i'm going to break this game out again now
knightrdrx 2 years ago
It looks alot better on the 2600 then on the vectrex because of the spinning robot heads i love that.
bigtarget9 2 years ago
The vectrex had spinning heads, too.
DEATHexiaUnit00 2 years ago 2
It was the speech synthesis in the arcade game that made berzerk so creepy - "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!!", "Human, you do not have long to live" (or something like that), "destroy the human" - really good stuff back then!
zombiemod 2 years ago 2
Did you shoot Evil Otto? Oh, you get the option to kill him. Cool.
Too bad there isn't an option to make it so the exits only open up if you kill all the robots.
Notice the smiles when they explode.
Maximilian was scary.
nutherefurlong 2 years ago 2
this game looks really easy but idk lol :D nice review
gamefreak63129 2 years ago
It gets much harder very quickly, trust me.
Tryzon 2 years ago
ur good at atari
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scrawburry 2 years ago
Dude, I thought they looked like Maxmillion, also. :D
TheCastellan 2 years ago
In the arcade, which I never played, I don't think Otto was able to be shot.
TheCastellan 2 years ago
Someone made a Dr. Who hack of this one. You play as the 4th Doctor ( The humanoid sprite had the hat and scarf ) and the robots were now Daleks, the eyesticks were the parts rotating. And Evil Otto was replaced with a Davros face..
TheCastellan 2 years ago
I've always liked this game. The Arcade version had some cool and funny voice effects. Like if you leave a screen without killing all the robots Otto says in an awesome 80's robot voice, "Coward! Fight like a robot!" The robots taunt you when they kill you and when you lose all your lives. And Otto gets mad when you clear a stage. Truly an awesome game.
ShadowPhoenix142 2 years ago
i bought a box ful of atari games then i was so happy to find bezerk but i was looking more than i figured out i had two copies sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
bong264 2 years ago
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Again, it doesn't look like a fuckin beach ball, it looks like a fuckin watermelon (texture-wise) you ASSHOLE
rtselby 2 years ago
Did You Know That The Same Happy Face from Berzerk is Featured In another atari 2600 game such as Fire Fly, The Happy Face is White on there.
Pennman31 2 years ago
Oh man, I hated the happy face lol
Mickalacktick 2 years ago
Arcade version actually did enhance the game, not by better graphics since that's clearly not the case but by talking robots, run off the screen and they robots will call you chicken and will say shoot the chicken in the next screen. It's actually funny to see games actually talking down at you and more games need it. That's one of the reasons why I play "bite the bullet" on my PC. Constantly tells you that you suck and that you are a moron. Why can't more games lower your self esteem.
bogart266 2 years ago
For me there is no question which game i would choose to take with in the deserted island.
BERZERK!
alex76gr 2 years ago 2
Can you actually escape, or is it just an endless battle?
JamboyStu 2 years ago
I remember sitting and playing this game for HOURS, back in 1982- oh, and how much homework did I NOT DO as a result. Like kiddie heroin this game was/is, being so damned addictive. Almost as bad as was Pitfall, Yar's Revenge,or Space Invaders!
skipchat 2 years ago
anyone notice when the robots explode they make a smiley face for a split second?
Iamtheowl5 2 years ago 2
HA!
demongabe 2 years ago
back in '80 I coulda bought a car for all the cash i stuffed into this game
livvidd 2 years ago 9
Money well spent ^_^
Tryzon 2 years ago
Having got this game for the first time, I can confirm its maddening addictiveness.
Also find some footage of the arcade version: the voice of Evil Otto is hilarious.
Tryzon 2 years ago
One of the coolest things about this game is that the enemies can shoot through your neck and you won't die.
Great game, the arcade version was better looking... but not by much. I wish the sequel (Frenzy) had come to the 2600 or 7800.
AlucardsQuest 2 years ago
I hate Evil Otto. He's too hard to escape and/or he forces you to run into robot fire. It's just not fair. I prefer the versions without Otto so it's just me and the robots.
harleykman 2 years ago
Holy crap, when the robots explode they have an Evil Otto pattern.
SirGameandWatch 2 years ago
While I agree that no amount of HD graphics or such could improve this game, I must mention that a joystick might not be the absolute best means of control. A nice little analogue stick, perhaps?
Tryzon 2 years ago
This is certainly a "throw-back". A game that kicked my ass when I was around 11 or so. Never got to beat it or play long enough to love it, in fact, I kinda hated it...mainly because the robots just kept on beating me. Great game, very challanging, and fun.
evikone 2 years ago
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best game for atari... nes and sega were the first real gaming systems.these games r just too primitive but fun.
5tonyvvvv 2 years ago
What the hell is your deal with commenting in every review of an atari game as it being primitive? It is what it is man. NES is primitive by todays standards as well. I have a hard time believing youre over 18.
imdaweiner 2 years ago 6
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iam 33..i had an atari in 82..it sucked when nes came out in 85..it was like a breath of fresh air..nes and sega master system are all time best 8 bit gaming systems ..the 3 dimentional bullshit that is out today sucks..i want to play a video game ..not watch a movie...the classic shit is the best..but i think atari was just to primitive...but primitive man was not dumb he was a skilled hunter..i also believe that god created man ..and we did not come from ape like creatures.
5tonyvvvv 2 years ago
No. The best 8-bit system was the Commodore 64.
But anyway back to NES - I have a hard time thinking of an NES game that I would want to play again. Maybe Super Mario because it has that "adrenaline feel" but that's about it. The rest of the games like FF1 and Zelda are dull and aged poorly (in my humble opinion).
Moden Final Fantasies and Zeldas are fun, but not the old 8-bit ones. I just can't stand their glacial pace.
harleykman 2 years ago
Even classics can fail to hold up years later. FPSs in particular age horribly, I've found.
Tryzon 2 years ago
Have you played atari today? :)
RetroGamerNet 2 years ago 20
Yea, but you don't want to know what I was playing...
FuzzyWuzzy147 2 years ago 4
beat em n eat em?
lesssugar1 2 years ago 6
@RetroGamerNet Fuck yeah I have, But you don't wanna know what i was playing.
bioo80 1 year ago
I was fortunate to play arcade berzerk back in the day, and the beauty of the 2600 port is that its very close. That is how games where judged back then, by how close they where to the arcade originals.
Guacatechs 2 years ago
i love my virtual atari and berzerk rom. they kick nostalgic ass.
lordurias 2 years ago 2
This game rules so much. One of my favorites...next to megamania & Demon attack.