Berzerk (Atari 2600) (How To Beat Home Video Games 2)

[TheAmer2472]

cool



[clintontt]

BA... BERZERK IS THE...

[Stinpack]

the first game of my nerdy life!

[maiki60fps]

Whow so Evil Otto is in 2600 version? Another SELECT switching I guess...

[codyc67]

KEEP THE FLAVOR!

[UberKrassMann]

lol passes harmlessly throu your neck..... WTH xD

[icehorse1010]

@UberKrassMann Poor yellow stick like guy.

[adobePC]

Cool!

[frostytheaussie]

"how to beat video games"

"berzerk"

YOU CAN ACTUALLY BEAT IT?? also it keeps some of the flavour but i missed the voice samples as a kid

great upload here

[ransman413]

Evil otto was once a clown

[srbrunoaf]

Stop, humanoid must not escape!

[projectdurden]

loved this game!

[Syntarro]

Bring Back RoBoTr0n!!!

[Syntarro]

Evil Otto!  chicken fight lightning robot

[azinnavidel]

I'm already in the planning stages of a Berzerk-Frenzy remake with all new features and stuff (using a program called Game Maker). Think I'll have "bots can shoot diagonally" as the first new feature.

[kurisux]

The diagonal thing is so annoying. When I play in the arcade, the diag is the WORST place to be: they fire so fast. In this, nothing.. it sucks, but I love this game with all my gamer heart (lol how lame).

just, man.. why did they not shoot diagonal? otherwise this would be perfect!!!

[trimmytrab]

Listen to Humanoid by Stakker, it samples this game.

[WTFBOOMDOOM]

Hello /b/. I'm planning to shoot a laser through my neck. Is it safe? Should I do it?

[1560129]

ich habt früher atari gezockt.jetzt ist es out

[Johanzu]

"Ber... Berzerk!"

[CampBreezyBeach]

It's John Carmack's long lost father!!!

[moviedudeinc]

I own this game and I love it!. Its decent for its time. The robots look like something else but thats the beauty of atari.

[DjiXas]

I still prefer Doom 3

[Ivaria]

How the hell do you compare this to Doom 3? XD

[DjiXas]

LOL, /sarcasm :o)

[fitsnitpit]

Never was a fan of Doom 3. System Shock 2's a different story.

[LtStarkiller]

"Super Strategy!" Let bullets pass harmlessly though your neck.......just like in real life kids!

[codyc67]

@LtStarkiller lmfao

[acolyteman]

If you look really carefully, the robot's explosion graphics is the negative image of Evil Otto! This always happens even if it's not noticeable on some robots in this video.

[ZacharyDuhamel]

the arcade version ahd computerized voices!

[anxid]

my first game on 2600!!at the time it was sold with the machine.memories...it was mid 80's

[lordbemylight]

I remember this game: touch a wall and you're finished!

[RetroVGamer]

It's the crappy 2600 version. The 5200 version was awesome! it had voice and the levels weren't glitchy.

[rulsis]

I tried playing this, but every time I kill a robot I instantly die. I can't kill one robot without dying. Can someone tell me why this happens?

[wildsmiley]

are you touching the walls or the robots? Are they shooting at you?

[Displaysac90]

I totally just shot myself in the neck... Man, that doesn't work

[humpdebump87]

I still have it it does go through your nech because there are no pixels there

[trupaz01]

"...Pass harmlessly through your neck..."

Can anything really do that?

[periechontology]

EVIL OTTO!

[tigerdirectz]

i never knew a laser could pass through my neck without harm

[Death2Bigots]

the box has better graphics than the game itself, lawlz... but damn, when I was 6 years old this was my favorite game.

[gillyssquashball]

They all did

[paulsbudlight]

Does anyone know if this game is going to come out for any of the game consoles?

[Death2Bigots]

you mean like, a 3d cgi'd version? lulz.

[danno4201]

i recently found it remade on a stand up arcade game with about 25 other old games on it. it a newer machine so i think it's back. my high score was 21,000 something. best game ever made

[lamancha2]

I wonder who presented the video.

[genesisplan]

this game is actually pretty good.

[MINESWEEP2k]

This was another good game, too. Apparently, I hear the space in the man's body where the laser harmlessly go through him is also in the arcade version, too.

-MINESWEEP

[ApacheMan2K]

a very helpful glitch, i must say. kinda makes you glad they kept it during the transition, huh?

[Orionsaint]

Berzerk on Atari 5200 was a much more faithful port of the arcade and even featured the voices.

[ClassicTVFan82]

Frenzy, a related game, was available for the ColecoVision.

[Dalbert342]

shit,I had 500.000 points once playing Beserker..

[Isoquant]

That game is way easier than the arcade version.

[legend813]

The player messed up. Just before the video ends he exits the wave and missed out on the 50 points he would have gained if he allowed Evil Otto to kill the last robot, plus 10 bouns points for every robot that was in the wave.

[Psyga315]

He was not worth dying for.

[WillBFugly]

..super strategy....My god, he's so.....ARGH

[MikeyS9607]

The first guy to die from a game died a heart attack after plaing this game

[dudefather]

look a grown up Napoleon Dynamite!

[Alchemist7000]

one of my favorite games for atari 2600, and i still play it today

[Immortal1000]

The graphics sucked but the game was still fun.

[Isoquant]

The graphics were fine.

[Immortal1000]

You are entitled to your opinion. In my opinion the graphics sucked.

[sonuvideos]

back then in the 80s, ALL you had to sell your game was gameplay, not flashy graphics or FMV

[wolverinejason]

I used to play Berzerk with my Grandma. I could kick her ass at Berzerk.

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

For shame! Not letting your own grandma win? (I'm just playin'.)

[DGSE]

I didn 't know the cheat with the neck trick...

[Mindraker1]

Oh come on, dude...

[hardgayramen4ever]

it's called a conversion, not a translation!

[Yedamatalk]

these videos are cool

[tehsmex]

I definitely thought that this was the coolest thing ever back in the day! I love how serious the commentator is. I wish I had the VHS... :-D

[tachoX2]

I think in the arcade version, the robots could fire diagonally. Never saw this on the 2600.

[Druffmaul]

"Graphics sucked so much in the early 80s"

We didn't think so at the time.

[ProductionX]

the graphics in the arcade Berserk was easy to adapt to the 2600, so I wasn't complaining.

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

I just took a trip down Memory Lane, courtesy of this old school hit.

[iAlta]

Oh! Those 8 directions!

[linksysrouted]

Wait 20 years and your games of today will be laughed at. I WILL BE HERE WAITING.

[iAlta]

You used to press buttons?

[WyndenRayne]

lol sounds like a snobby Wii owner.

[videogameknowitall]

Bezerk was a pretty cool game!

[ekai]

"He isn't worth dying for." Too true!

[commedore64]

I liked it alot too good vid thanks

[Yarkie]

This game is still fun to play. Nice post.

[peterbbb]

I used to go so far in this game :) Graphics sucked so much in the early 80s

[RunandGunPictures]

Graphics suck so much in he 2000's. God so hideous those photo realism, and Ratchet and Clank look like a shitty pixar movie on the P(eice) S(hit) 3.  ;) I'm kidding, I just think it's funny how people retroactivly grade graphics. Hell my first system was an Atari 400 and played the hell out of it. I remember the first time I saw a Nintendo and was like WOW and then a Sega Genesis and I about shit myself when the Sega CD came out with FMV. But seriously, Atari 2600 was full of fun.