Berzerk
Berzerk is an absolute Atari 2600 classic, released in 1982, that puts the player in a futuristic maze where survival depends on fast reflexes and accurate decisions. In control of a lone hero, you must escape rooms full of hostile robots that shoot mercilessly. Your only goal? Destroy you.
Each room is generated randomly, keeping the challenge constant and unpredictable. Robots come in different colors and behaviors, some even sacrifice themselves to try to eliminate you. To make matters worse, if you dawdle too long, the dreaded Evil Otto — a smiling, indestructible face — appears to chase you relentlessly. No use shooting, Otto goes through walls and only stops when you die... or escape the room!
Even with the simple graphics of the time, Berzerk delivers a tense and addictive atmosphere, with electronic sounds that mark the generation. It is one of the first games to use synthesized voices in arcades, and although the Atari version did not have this feature, it kept the frantic and challenging spirit of the original.
Dan Hitchens
1982
Playing: Berzerk
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