Berzerk
Platform: Atari 800
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Shoot 'em Up - Arcade
Gametype: Prototype
Release Year: 1983
Developer: Atari
Publisher: None
Players: 1 or 2 Alternating
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You have been sent into a building infested with robots, and must do your best to clear it out. Each rooms has a number of walls through the middle, which restrict 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.

Trivia:

In 1983, Milton Bradley adapted this video game into a boardgame.

Berzerk was popular enough to have a song inspired by it on the full-length "Pac-Man Fever" album - "Goin' Berzerk".


http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/berzerk

