Classic Game Room HD - BERZERK for Atari 2600 review

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Classic Game Room HD reviews BERZERK for Atari 2600 VCS video computer system! This 1980 arcade classic developed by Stern was made into one of the best Atari 2600 games in 1982. It is the year 3200 and you must destroy the auto-mazeons controlled by Evil Otto! Shoot your way out of dark mazes and dodge enemy lazer fire in this old school retro arcade hit reviewed by Classic Game Room. CGRHD is the retro reviewer that reviews Berzerk the way it deserves to be reviewed, with respect for its old school heritage and awesome gameplay. For game play and footage of Berzerk along with a serious, credible review look her at this CGRHD review of Berzerk. If you are starting an Atari 2600 collection it should start with Berzerk!

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@MetalJesusRocks 13 лет назад

The sounds in the game alone, bring me back to my early school days. Such a classic!

@rickdeckard2622 6 лет назад

The time, before you were “really“ famous. Congtats MJ!!

@Adamchevy 2 года назад

Yes Congtats

@lisvender 4 года назад

I like these “classic” Classic Game Room reviews. They’re so mellow and fun to listen to. I still remember a week ten years ago when I was on the couch with a sinus infection. I just binged a bunch of CGR that day and had a great time.

@TheGamingChu 7 лет назад

I have an arcade near me that has a Berzerk arcade machine. I play it whenever I go there. Berzerk is an amazing game!

@polarcrash4653 3 года назад

Man, that sounds awesome. All of the arcade games near me only have the newer arcade games.

@Adamchevy 2 года назад

@@polarcrash4653 Same. I need to open an Arcade with the classics, even if it’s just for myself.

@bardthebowman866 4 года назад

This takes me back to playing my dad's 2600 as a teen. I wish i still had it.

@jmac79ers 2 года назад

Lol, even these old reviews can surprise. Love the laser drum jam session at the end. Mark is a genius

@Adamchevy 2 года назад

One of the best reviews ever done on RU-vid! You young bucks and young bucksesses out there pay attention to the nuances of this masterpiece. Don’t you ever wonder where Mr. Metal Jesus learned it all? Mark pioneered this whole video game reviewing medium.

@ShadowPhoenix142 15 лет назад

I've always liked this game. The Arcade version had some cool and funny voice effects. Like if you leave a screen without killing all the robots Otto says in an awesome 80's robot voice, "Coward! Fight like a robot!" The robots taunt you when they kill you and when you lose all your lives. And Otto gets mad when you clear a stage. Truly an awesome game.

@Skriak 15 лет назад

Having got this game for the first time, I can confirm its maddening addictiveness. Also find some footage of the arcade version: the voice of Evil Otto is hilarious.

@Synthnode 15 лет назад

I loved the art on the book and the box, and Berserk was one of my favorite 2600 games. I was very small when Berserk came out, but looking at the footage of you flipping through the instruction booklet brings back some great memories.

@toomanynotes1 14 лет назад

Turning the robot's rapid fire into a dance beat at the end had me rolling! Back in the day I'd let those robots just shoot at a wall while I would dance around the room to the beat. CLASSIC!

@JungleBJJ 15 лет назад

It's awesome you re-used that beat from the original CGR review. I'd like to see the character dancing again, that was really cool. :-)

@josephknightcom 12 лет назад

I used to stare at that instruction book, allowing the illustrations to heighten my imagination while playing. I wondered how such awesome images were ever created. Berzerk is probably my favorite Atari game because of this.

@netsurferx1 14 лет назад

Love the death noise on this game! Easily the best death noise ever...Of all time.

@plurp7 15 лет назад

gee, thanks to this review Mark... i spent over an hour and a half solidly playing Berzerk on my 2600 last night. what a great game!

@notyoursavior78 15 лет назад

Nice a full review of this game. I always liked the little teaser review you had before. This game escaped me in my childhood, but I always wanted to play it and I have now, I own it. I like how the auto-mazeons just unload on the wall when you are on the other side thinking it could shoot through it. I hate those smiley faces though! (ie Evil Otto) OMG invincible Evil Otto is a game mode!

@EnjoyVideoGaming 13 лет назад

I think this is the best game in the world. I love it. Frenzy in the arcade is pretty awesome as well. I can play Berzerk for hours (not all one game, mind you) and never get bored! Great review!

@newstart2009 15 лет назад

if you never played Bezerk on the arcade, they have the arcade now for pc just so you know. Great review. The HD on this vid is awesome!

@JustyHakubi 15 лет назад

Great review the only thing you missed was a display of the neck dodge. It was possible to do that on the 2600 version. If you line your guy up perfectly the blast went through the neck without a scratch. Berzerk was a great game back in the day. I just wish that they could have incorporated the voice clips from the original coin-op version. They were so classic.

@dogeymon83 15 лет назад

How can you not get how people love Halo?? It's filled with vast horizons of gorgeous photo-realistic graphics, stunning detail, razor-sharp visuals, incredible sound quality, a huge campaign mode to explore the trilogy in. You might not find it interesting, but surely you can understand that people just have a preference for it. But Berserk is moving from one same screen to another, never changing.

@skyrock100 12 лет назад

So much nostalgia with this game, damn. This game was my escape in my early years. Love it. I remember when me and bro used to take the piss outta the game for looking so different from the cover XD

@cloudlink 12 лет назад

This game seems really good. Congratz, you (and this game) just made me want to play an Atari 2600.

@NightSprinter 13 лет назад

Never knew that a robot's rapid fire against the wall could actually make for a good beat. Funky.

@ovrzelus 15 лет назад

Great review. You forgot to mention that you get shocked if you touch the walls as well. I tripped my f'in foot walking around walls many a night.

@zeromuza 15 лет назад

Is it just me or can you see a smile faces every time one robot dies? Btw, damn nice work man.

@Retrogamer71 15 лет назад

Classic game across the console market. In UK it was a cartridge game for the Commodore Vic20. Love the film references to Battlestar Galactica and Black Hole too.

@Zzyyxxyyxx 12 лет назад

OTTO is NOT misunderstood, he's just FREAKIN EVIL. Ladies, you're NOT going to CHANGE him. You're going to ignore me as always, but YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!

@moebigsley1976 13 лет назад

The best part about this game, is that if you position yourself correctly, the lasers the robots shoot can go through your neck and you don't die.

@FalconNeko 15 лет назад

loved the music at the :D

@Retrogamer71 15 лет назад

Thanks thewhammy83, Vectrex was something else. A real arcade machine and no other machine looked or behaved the same!

@delfmeek 15 лет назад

Not to mention, Buckner and Garcia (Pac-Man Fever) did a song about this great game as well. If you like Berzerk, grab "Frenzy" for the Colecovision. Only thing that is missing from the 2600 version is the speech... I loved that in the arcade.

@kamikaze9699 14 лет назад

YAY for two reasons- I'm not the only one who made the Maximilian connection with these robots and I'm not the only one who remembers "Black Hole." LOL

@heardofrvb 14 лет назад

Otto reminds me of getting killed in Faceball 2000. "Have a nice day"

@beansandwiched 8 лет назад

there was this one trick where the robots laser would go between the gap of your head and shoulders allowing you to shoot back and kill it.

@TigerClawTV 14 лет назад

Heck yeah. I love this game. Great video.

@AlucardsQuest 15 лет назад

One of the coolest things about this game is that the enemies can shoot through your neck and you won't die. Great game, the arcade version was better looking... but not by much. I wish the sequel (Frenzy) had come to the 2600 or 7800.

@kdj29 14 лет назад

My favorite single player 2600 game as well. When the robots moved sideways, they always looked like McDonald's Fry Guys to me. I used to hate it when your laser would hit their's and you would be stuck and if you moved you would get hit . Oh and when the game was set so that you couldnt kill otto, that was hard.

@twenty2082 3 года назад

This sounds like Egon Spengler reviewing this game.

@skipchat 15 лет назад

I remember sitting and playing this game for HOURS, back in 1982- oh, and how much homework did I NOT DO as a result. Like kiddie heroin this game was/is, being so damned addictive. Almost as bad as was Pitfall, Yar's Revenge,or Space Invaders!

@moisespadilla4704 6 лет назад

did it come to your minds that when the robots explode it looks like a smiley face? I always saw that :P

@RebelTaxi 15 лет назад

You know, 2 people who broke the world record for this game died shortly after. They said Evil Otto was cursed... In January 1981, 19-year-old Jeff Dailey died of a heart attack soon after posting a score of 16,660 on Berzerk. In October of the following year, Peter Burkowski made the Berzerk top-ten list twice in fifteen minutes, just a few seconds before also dying of a heart attack at the age of 18

@Twilight902101701 13 лет назад

great stuff - 30yrs ago :-)

@shanecopher5781 6 лет назад

The humanoid must not escape!!

@alex76gr 15 лет назад

For me there is no question which game i would choose to take with in the deserted island. BERZERK!

@Gaz_3 9 лет назад

The voice enhanced version of this is even better.

@jimbox114 14 лет назад

I always loved how Atari games had such epic stories for such simple games. A shame this game didn't actually have an ending so that players could actually end the story. No "And lived happily ever after" for this game.

@JanoyCresvaZero 14 лет назад

I was at a flea market over the weekend, place was called Hoke E. Geez, and I was actually looking around for NES games... To my dismay, the only ones I could find, on ANY system really, were sports games. I HATE sports games. Until I came across a bunch of Atari 2600 games... I saw Berzerk, and I remembered this review... Mind you, I do not have an Atari 2600... But after seeing this, Atlantis, and Combat all in one spot, I decided to get one tomorrow after I cash my paycheck from work. :)

@sinistermoon 15 лет назад

A truly awesome game. Awesome video man. He dose look like a beach ball.

@TheCastellan 15 лет назад

Someone made a Dr. Who hack of this one. You play as the 4th Doctor ( The humanoid sprite had the hat and scarf ) and the robots were now Daleks, the eyesticks were the parts rotating. And Evil Otto was replaced with a Davros face..

@thewhammy83 15 лет назад

Perhaps because the Vectrex version can actually go "berzerk" at times, which really makes it interesting.

@Dukefazon 12 лет назад

When the robots die the explosion looks like a smiley face :)

@TheCastellan 14 лет назад

shoot into the right side exit, and the shot will come out of the left, I think the instructions even mentioned that. :) Love the robot designs in the manual. Also, someone made an awesome rom hack of this into a Dr. Who game where ya fight pretty convincing looking Daleks. :D

@45milkshakes 11 лет назад

one of my favorite atari games

@gjc82071 13 лет назад

@superandom Perhaps, but hands down, this was the best arcade game port to the Atari 2600. Oh, wait, Berzerk & also, Wizard of Wor. As close as you could get considering the 2600's limitations. Although Missile Command & Space Invaders were decent too ports too. Asteroids, although fun, lost much in the conversion, the original being vector based graphics & all. Now, a port of Asteroids to the Vectrex would have been awesome!

@RealCoachMustafa 15 лет назад

Evil Otto scared me when I was a kid, I remember sometimes I would scream when he would get too close

@BrianLaClair 15 лет назад

Thats exactly what I noticed also. This is a great game. I like the sounds.

@SuperGuyincognito 15 лет назад

dogeymon83, I was referring to the gameplay. Circle-strafing and bunny-hopping got boring for me in a few minutes, the last time I played a game like this (UT 1). I prefer "tactical" shooters...or even 2d shmups.

@knightrdrx 15 лет назад

i am surprised you didn't note the fact that you can shoot through one side and it comes out the other..i love that! i'm going to break this game out again now

@Fanvadenaxar 15 лет назад

After seeing this review, i wanna buy that game.

@xFTFxUNSCxH3 15 лет назад

i just got this game for christmas n i was playin it rite b4 i got on the computer it is a very fun game

@monos70 13 лет назад

the atari 2600 cartridges had some bad ass art covers.

@yaywhewclips242 15 лет назад

U could fire DIAGNALLY!!!! I loved that!!! Cool-ass game, y'all!!!

@The_Real_DCT 14 лет назад

If you can find it you should do a review of Berserk for 5200 it was very close to the arcade version in look and even featured the voice samples like "Chicken come back and fight like a robot" or "stop the humanoid/ Stop the intruder" " from the arcade

@dogeymon83 15 лет назад

Of course I've played Berserk. I own it for my Atari 2600. I appreciate simple Atari games. I understand the fun of getting high scores. But Berserk is extremely dull. But someone explained a little more about it, and I suppose I sorta get it. So you don't need to try to "convert" me. I'm alright.

@westeyes1111 15 лет назад

best video on youtube

@skyblue11685 13 лет назад

When you shoot the auto mazeon's the evil otto smiley face appears for a brief moment.

@jashugan007 14 лет назад

I think the art designer for this game was inspired by Gundam. The Auto-mazeon at 3:47 looks like a Zeon Gogg.

@MooseBurrito575 15 лет назад

i like the beat at the end :P

@ELtercermundista82 14 лет назад

I had this game!!!!!! nice one

@notyoursavior78 15 лет назад

Where did my comment go? :( God...Bless. Anyway nice to see Boomstick post and well where is Sinister Moon? I love the CGR.

@SnakeOfBacon 11 лет назад

they feel honored to be liberated by the saffron man

@brianwkinyua 16 часов назад

checking in in September 2024

@MassZombicide 15 лет назад

I'm glad to see we can turn off Evil Otto, he's so evil it looks like that game could become easily frustrating if we had to contend with him when he pops up.

@Skriak 15 лет назад

While I agree that no amount of HD graphics or such could improve this game, I must mention that a joystick might not be the absolute best means of control. A nice little analogue stick, perhaps?

@sejembalm 12 лет назад

Of course there is a way to improve Berserk! Have the robot voice sounds! - Intruder Alert! - Chicken, fight like a robot! And so on, from the original arcade game

@dyldragon1 12 лет назад

My favorite Atari 2600 game. :)

@Musicradio77Network 6 лет назад

dyldragon1 Better than the arcade version which became a torture.

@Your_Degenerate 8 лет назад

Probably the main source for inspiration for Smash TV. This has walls in it though, odd that newer games didn't think to have this dynamic.

@ScrewAttackEurope 15 лет назад

Can you do an MP3 of your Bezerk techno remix Mark?

@bong264 15 лет назад

i bought a box ful of atari games then i was so happy to find bezerk but i was looking more than i figured out i had two copies sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

@SirGameandWatch 15 лет назад

Holy crap, when the robots explode they have an Evil Otto pattern.

@orionpax55 13 лет назад

You know the robots explode into smiley faces, I guess Evil Auto (Otto?) is a ghost, the ghost of a robot, to be exact.

@Pennman31 15 лет назад

Did You Know That The Same Happy Face from Berzerk is Featured In another atari 2600 game such as Fire Fly, The Happy Face is White on there.

@retardisaur9 12 лет назад

i remember seeing that as a little kid

@plurp7 15 лет назад

i see the smiley faces when you shoot the robots... my guess is, its the release of the energy force Evil Otto uses to control them.

@Iamtheowl5 15 лет назад

anyone notice when the robots explode they make a smiley face for a split second?

@netsurferx1 13 лет назад

Another nice feature about this game? The player's death noise! Best. Death noise. EVAR!

@acolyteman 14 лет назад

@StickPeopleAndPuff The explosion graphics are that of Evil Otto, only it's a negative image of him lol

@Leishmaniasisably 13 лет назад

Actually some badass music would be welcomed.

@Jaspertine 14 лет назад

The robots er, Automazeons could shoot diagonally in the Arcade version. It was pretty brutal.

@SuperGuyincognito 13 лет назад

@Leoooonard Quake 1? I liked the grenade launcher in quake... As far as I remember, when it came out, the game ran and looked like crap on my crappy computer back then, so I don't have fond memories of it. I did like some of the mods for UT99 and quake 3.

@MarshmallowMadnesss 12 лет назад

I never played this game without Evil Otto. I think that, as a kid, I must not have known how to disable it and thus this game was frustrating for me. That silly face would get me every time and I thought the game must be impossible. Yar's Revenge, I dominated though.