Arcade Longplay [503] Berzerk

The sound of numerous constant laser blasts is somehow very calming.

Pong: beep... boop PAC-MAN: waka waka Berzerk: INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT

"Coin detected in pocket." That end of game was brutal. Well done.

"Coins detected in pocket." Awesome.

THE HUMANOID MUST NOT ESCAPE. CHICKEN. FIGHT LIKE A ROBOT. CHARGE IT. INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT.

The vocoderized voices are cool still to this day.

The game started to drop a beat at 7:01

This game gave me an adrenaline rush as a kid...some how it captured my mind inside this game...this and gorf..the sounds and voices.

This is one of those video games that actually could use a movie adaptation. With little to no official lore, it leaves a lot more room for the studio to use their imaginations to flesh things out and maybe even answer questions we never even thought to ask while playing the game! Who is this humanoid protagonist? What events led up to their current situation? What are their motives? Why have they intruded Evil Otto's base? And what about Otto himself? What happened that made him evil? What are his motives? Why does he rely on all these robots? What does he have against our hero/heroine? On top of all this, what's the setting? Where is this facility located? And of course, the title, Berzerk. How does that tie into everything? I wish I could come up with answers, but I'm terrible at thinking, so...yeah, I think I need outside ideas...

Classic game. I never had the pleasure of playing it in an arcade, but I did play it on an Atari. Evil Otto is such a bastard, haha.

This was my favorite game as a kid in the 80s. I never got anywhere near as good as this guy.

People seem to forget that this was the first ever game to feature voice acting. Not Sinistar. Even if Sinistar doesn’t sound anywhere as synthetic.

After playing it on the Atari 2600, the arcade machine was a shock in that the bots can fire diagonally too! They couldn't in the 2600.

1 like = 1 Berzerk Robot Saying: "Chicken, Fight like a Robot!"

That looks like my workplace...... (Computer Voice) "The Intruder must not escape!"

What if: That green stick-figure is Doom-Guy's precursor?

I played this game years after it came out (for reference I was born in '98) and despite the clunk that comes with age, it's still a great time. Even got my little sister to try it. She seemed to enjoy it.

Here's a game that needs the Arcade Archives treatment.

Interesting how if you take too long, a smiley face appears and bounces after you, but your thought is oh god oh god the overseer has arrived.

Happy 40th birthday to “Berserk”!