Amok!
Amok! was the first Odyssey² new release about 15 years after the console was discontinued. It is inspired by Berzerk. The player is trapped in a spaceship and is armed with a laser pistol, which can fire in…
Amok! is an arcade developed by John Dondzila, released 31 December 1998 on Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000.
What Amok! is
Amok! is an arcade game developed by John Dondzila and released in 1998. It is available on Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Amok! was the first Odyssey² new release about 15 years after the console was discontinued. It is inspired by Berzerk. The player is trapped in a spaceship and is armed with a laser pistol, which can fire in all 8 directions. Each stage is a maze with one or more exits, and the player has to try to exit them while avoiding to touch its walls and get killed. Besides the danger of the walls, the player will face the berzerk robot sentinels, which can move about and shoot, but that can also be killed if they touch the walls. After a while, the Smileybot will appear and try to kill the player. The Smileybot can pass through walls and cannot be killed by the player. The game features 12 stages…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Amok! launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.
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