Berzerk
Maneuver your humanoid through the electrified mazes of robot filled rooms. You many kill off the first group of robots but initial success does not mean survival...future groups begin firing at your! Added…
Berzerk is a shooter developed by Stern Electronics, released 12 November 1980 on Arcade.
What Berzerk is
Berzerk is a shooter game developed by Stern Electronics and released in 1980. It is available on Arcade only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Berzerk is a 1980 maze and shooter video game developed and published by Stern Electronics for arcades. The game involves a Humanoid Intruder who has to escape maze-like rooms that are littered with robots which slowly move toward and shoot at the Humanoid. The player can shoot at the robots to try to escape the room. Along with the robots, a smiley face known as Evil Otto appears to hunt down the player within each room.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Berzerk holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70.
What it launched against
Berzerk launched on 12 November 1980, within three weeks of Phoenix, Battlezone and Rally-X. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Phoenix, Battlezone, Rally-X.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Berzerk yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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