Atari 2600 Longplay [057] Berzerk

[@Dorelaxen]

Talk about hours spent on this one. I played it so much I discovered that the robot's lasers will pass harmlessly through the player if they go through the space between his head and body.

[@Mindraker1]

I spent so much time with this my hands would turn black and sweaty from the controller.

[@geometricart7851]

yeah did that one.

[@LITTLE1994]

Yeah, but that's hard to do.

[@gamernation1829]

the player has no neck so no need to worry about getting choked

[@LeoHodges]

"Vyvyan, you complete and utter BASTARD!!"

[@maha77]

after 40+ years I suddenly had the desire to hear the BERZERK sounds, I am not disappointed

[@marshalljimduncan]

Try Pitfall or Moon Patrol...

[@entertainingsportshighligh7525]

UM, the actual REAL 25 cent ARCADE version ??? Or this imitation ATARI 2600 version ????

[@nemakuci]

I wear a Berzerk tshirt right now. I loved the sounds as a child and still today. Also got the desire to hear them, great sounds..

[@Aragon9th]

same

[@williamtaittinger4529]

YES

[@stufaman]

Some people won't get it. But Berzerk is still a very satisfying game to play.

[@yaknophonics]

I agree. Also Yars' Revenge I find relaxing and you can get in the zone.

[@stufaman]

Yars' Revenge is one of the first games I ever played. It took me ages to figure it out, lol.

[@LITTLE1994]

I still think it is.

[@lacreatura4737]

It's actually one of my favorite Atari 2600 games, to be honest. I honestly find myself really vibing while playing this.

[@gibsonraymonda]

You know what was a good one? Seaquest.

[@kaseybrown7664]

I like how the robots explode into happy faces.

[@Korokukanas]

Wow great eyes!

[@halojoe61]

What your seeing is evil ottos program leave thier body

[@koaasst]

10:25 the ultimate shootout ever!

[@Somedumbasskid2009]

lol, outlaw in a nutshell

[@jadsi]

Yea

[@basicallysnake]

Wild west movies be like

[@crimsondynamo615]

“You were good, bot, real good. As long as I’m around though, human’s are always the better shot.”

[@goinsouth051]

I had spent many hours playing on my Atari 2600 . This was one of the games that was so satisfying to play. Thanks for taking me back to that period of my Childhood that never will be forgotten ❤

[@Red_Sutter]

9:03 On the last episode of Dragon Ball Z...

[@montazmeahii6029]

they got into a hadouken battle

[@capscaps04]

It was the fight of the century.

[@sirbradfordofhousejones]

Loved watching my dad play this when I was a kid. THIS is the game that sparked my love for gaming

[@DevonPuggyrdChannel]

0:40 Rigby: "I wanna be player 2."

[@SinisterServal]

The Atari 2600 can really make some cool sound effects.

[@LITTLE1994]

Just like the SNES.

[@SinisterServal]

@@LITTLE1994 You might disagree with me but the Genesis can also make some cool sounds.☺

[@michaelricketson1365]

Also it had a much larger range of color display than later systems.

[@caseyjunkins2366]

Absolutely tremendous game for its day and time in the early-to-mid 80s.

[@CuteLesbo69]

It's still a fantastic game

[@LITTLE1994]

Definitely. It's still good now.

[@jacobvanantwerp2001]

Fun (also sad) fact: In 1982, 18-year-old straight-A high school student Peter Bukowski and his friend walked into an arcade in Calumet City, IL. Peter put a quarter into the machine for this game. Within 30 minutes, Peter received the high score, entering his initials into the leaderboard. However, that was the end of it, as Peter was about to start playing the next game when he instantly dropped dead of a heart attack. It was examined by the coroner that Peter had two-week-old scar tissue around his heart, and the excitement and stress of playing caused his heart to get much weaker, so weak it stopped. Peter had his whole life ahead of him, so it was just a sad, sad thing it happened too soon.

[@RR-xg1cm]

I heard another player died as well. Whenever I play this emulated at home, I like to mention that to the players playing.

[@jacobvanantwerp2001]

@@RR-xg1cm Every time I see games that caused deaths in real life, I get a little bitter just thinking about it.

[@deniscruz6112]

I just had a flashback, just listening to this sound, the smell of my Mattel He-man collection came back to my mind...Berzerk!!!

[@Xeovaii]

Fun fact, the sound when the enemy is shooting was used in regular show season 1 episode 4 “death punchies” at the end of the episode and they are also playing on an Atari

[@LITTLE1994]

This is the PAL version. Anyway, Berzerk is one of my favorite Atari games of all time. I love as the score goes higher, the robots' laser sound goes faster. That shooter game was ahead of its time, same goes with its awesome box art. So much fun.

[@sebastiankulche]

One of the best Atari 2600 games.

[@conejopestilente]

That was the first video game I ever played, thank you for the memories.

[@thejawbreakersbandofficial4243]

I love how stupid the enemies are. The first thing they do instead of shooting at you isThey run into walls and die lol

[@LegitMan335]

The most easiest enemy to kill.

[@Akira625]

And you still get awarded points when they kill themselves, or each other.

[@JamMack-ke3jw]

Committing suicide

[@BoxCenterWithJSmiff]

I had a 2600 and my parents purchased it with this game. I was about 7 years old so it was the best graphics I’ve ever seen, played this thing for hours and hours every day!

[@funkymonkey2k94]

damn guts is looking good

[@reesesthefennecguy7164]

I think he slimmed down too much XD

[@KishorTwist]

Love the "shoot-off". The Atari and its brethren early consoles were proof that fancy visuals were not necessary to have gaming fun!

[@AnsonBeeker]

Sat down for 10 minutes to play this in 2023. 2 hours later I got on with what I was supposed to be doing. Just like the 80s.

[@starofjustice1]

Kind of amazed it took you guys so long to get around to this one.

[@ExtremeWreck]

XD could you imagine the amount of people thinking, "I never saw this in the anime!", only to later on realize that this has literally nothing to do with the anime?

[@_alleycat_]

the manga is peak

[@reesesthefennecguy7164]

Does anyone else see a smiley face every time one of those robots explode?

[@jeremyriley1238]

That's Evil Otto.

[@reesesthefennecguy7164]

Thanks

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Too bad the player isn't playing this with the "Evil Otto" option however. I think that was a setting on the console you had to press to do so.

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

​@@ChristopherSobieniakI had no idea you could opt out. My brother and I inherited our 2600, and the games we got with it were loose and didn't have the manuals. We always called it 'the ghost' 😂

[@hhh123837]

I always gave Evil Otto the name Mr. Happy!! :)

[@ericburton5914]

Its only on hard level this noob is only playing easy level.

[@validpoint9849]

@9:05 -- is basically Goku and Vegeta firing blasts at one another with full intensity until one quits.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

1:06 That's weird: That robot died before the bullet even got there! This is actually one of the best coin-op conversions ever done for the Atari VCS, in my opinion.

[@gerryconwayvoice]

Memories of my early teens... soooooo many hours on this one!!!!

[@cataclysmicbane9068]

Got this preordered! Can’t wait for November 17th!

[@KingCobraofMeta4]

I remember the pure rage I'd get from this game when that damned smiley face would come for you...

[@dindomoreno]

Thanks for transporting me back to simpler and happier times of my childhood. :D

[@VahanNisanian]

Anyone know if the story about the two young men who played this game in the arcades in the early 1980's and died is true? I can't seem to find any articles from that time.

[@gifroj.sotl146]

Vahan Nisanian It's true men , I ear about that

[@jeremyriley1238]

Indeed. Although one of the deaths was a heart attack caused by stress and a curse placed on them by Evil Otto

[@VahanNisanian]

I think it was caused by not being used to this new kind of activity, and were unable to handle this excitement. Video Games weren't common during the early 80's, like they are now.

[@Thrasher360]

home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/cvg/death.html and in the Trivia section part www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7096

[@VahanNisanian]

Thanks a lot, Seth.

[@SevenDeMagnus]

The sound effects and voice holds up. God bless.

[@richardtela]

Few memories come to mind for me... 1. I would have so there was one robot left, and have it just chasing me around the stage. 2. The smiley face that could not destroy scared me as a kid because knew it was it was a matter of time before it showed up and I had to leave the map. 3. The box/cartridge art was pretty bad ass. Your character destroying a robot, but two others looming in the background.

[@handsomebrick]

btw, someone did take the obvious idea of making a game like this but with an actual map where you have to go to certain places and do certain things to win, it's called Shamus.

[@littlebigcomrade]

atari 2600 has some of the best games of all time. Not enough people appreciate this era of gaming.

[@chrisnizer1885]

Where's Evil Otto??? Berzerk isn't Berzerk without an Evil Otto bouncing across the screen.

[@JaimeSalcedoA_72]

¡Excelente conversión del clásico de arcades Berzerk para Atari 2600! En el minuto 9:50 ¡no había manera de que alguien saliera victorioso de ese tiroteo! De modo que el robot dió ese paso fatal hacia abajo para poder destruir al protagonista; y lo logró, pero sufriendo las consecuencias... ¡Excelente video, y saludos!

[@gwendor4424]

Where is Otto? :(

[@russellthompson9271]

Loved playing Atari 2600 games in the 80's! Much more fun than games of today. They were more simple, but the sound effects were cool, even the look of the cartridge was fucking awesome! You'd get excited looking at it, knowing it would be great when you started playing it. That inspiration and excited feeling has gone now. I wish I could bring back the 80's.

[@jcrobinson37]

Great game brings back my childhood

[@Misconduct24]

I've been going through Atari lists trying to find all the games I played as a little kid. This was one of them. I kept thinking the name was Robotron for some reason

[@RyanNelly]

I remember being in love with the fact you could shoot at angles

[@davechristopher6462]

My favorite 2600 game. Lots of fun!!

[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

Good Atari game. Evil Otto is in this version but the player is playing a different mode without Otto 🙂🙃

[@Blacknight8850]

Are there some graphics of the bullets missing due to youtube compression etc? It seems like there's several times the LPer shoots at a wall and a few seconds later an enemy somewhere else onscreen dies, like a bullet was bouncing off the walls.

[@AwesomeRickyC]

It was a while since I played this but I think they're just dying because they're walking into walls themselves.

[@RickinBaltimore]

RickyC That's it exactly. Touching the walls were death to the player or robots

[@Nestalgba92023]

Did you play it with NO Evil Otto?

[@princegroove]

This game was so much fun to play in an arcade.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

The humanoid's feet move faster than Marvin The Martian....

[@AnsonBeeker]

Sat down for 10 minutes to play this in 2023 and got on with my day 2 hours later

[@kitarofan87]

I haven’t played this in years- remind me what happens if I exit a stage too early without killing all the enemies?

[@bobsaturday5840]

I guess no bonus score. I escaped from Otto and some robots without problem

[@nothilton4943]

9:02 my brother in christ, that robot's MOTIVATED-

[@kelefane6233]

Notice the smiley face effect when you shoot one right before they poof?

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

Always loved the smiley face when the droids exploded 😂 😊

[@shawnbrasuell8951]

We're is the bouncing ball?

[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

Evil Otto shows up if the player stays on the same screen to long

[@paraguaymike5159]

Where is Evil Otto?

[@johntitor8465]

Haimae! Kunieru gekka tamino dokkoku Kyomono nobi ni “Kami” wa naru Hai yo, Hai yo, muneno kubiki wa sennen no Aaa Momai no Momai no Kase ni “Hogo” sae utsushi mise Iko no kaze ni yakare mau Karma no akuta yorube naku Hai yo, Hai yo, satore byakuya no hito nareba Aaa yukyu wo, yukyu wo Mune ni yamanai koe wo shite (Hai yo, Hai yo, Hai yo, Hai yo) Haimae, Haimae, Haimae yo Aaa Haimae, Haimae, Haimae yo Aaa

[@Hadouken88]

Ah yes, back when video games were so primitive it blew my mind as a kid that the robots changed colors as you progressed through the levels!

[@justworkingfortheweekend8504]

At a pawn shop I bought an Atari 2600 a few years back. I bought this game along with ET 😬

[@georgeshelton6281]

I use to possess the Atari 2600 game console and the Berserk VG (video game) cartridge, until the SNES took over.

[@Hologhoul]

A very decent conversion, all things considered.

[@punishedwhispers1218]

Is this like Proto-Hotline Miami?

[@BudFriesel]

god, i so hated that bouncing beach ball of death so much. lol.

[@DumpsterFire.92]

Evil Otto.

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

Where's Otto?

[@abbadabbba232]

I seem to recall there was a game setting where you could play without Evil Otto.

[@natelecarde962]

THE HUMANOID MUST NOT ESCAPE

[@superbird24]

@ 9:03. That was a showdown for the ages… lol

[@JamMack-ke3jw]

It's like ok let's be shooting buddies but one of us gotta go

[@leetaylorchristian]

my all time favorite game. would play after school til a parent forced me to stop

[@thomaspleacher2735]

I wish the Vectrex version of this game wasn't so dull.

[@DergSol]

2:46 mass suicide

[@TimBoyd2012]

No Smiley?

[@donkykong1823]

I love how so many robots unalive themselves.

[@MetalWarrior83]

Now this is gaming, I’ll take this game over anything made today!! I’m thinking about getting an Atari 2600+ !!!!

[@teh744]

Where is the “evil Otto”

[@eauhomme]

Doesn't seem like Berzerk without Evil Otto.

[@sandal_thong]

Yeah, that was the first thing I noticed so 👎 since I'd like to see someone play better than me. Then they played it on a variation with extra lives. I try to beat my score on the variation with none. So far I didn't see a neck shot, which can be done, but I'm not good enough. I was hoping when he went laser-to-laser against an enemy 9:04 that he'd drop down 1 pixel to let the bolt go through him, but instead the enemy finally moved and got him! LOL. One of the things I learned about Berzerk was they programmed it so that no two enemies were on the same horizontal lines. That way they could avoid the blinking that Pac-Man's ghosts got, as well as in Superman and Adventure. Activision's Stampede was similar but they somehow could put multiple cattle on the same horizontal, perhaps because they were identical.

[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

Evil Otto is in this version. The player is either screen hopping too fast before Otto appears or they're playing a different game mode. The 2600 has 12 or more modes.

[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

@@sandal_thong I believe mode 2 and 3 have Evil Otto in this version. I think there's up to 12 or 14 modes on the cartridges

[@Looking4HopeAnywhere]

I never understood the “walls kill you!” Atari games.

[@andychapman5279]

How do you get it to shoot ? i never realised till i saw this video

[@yaknophonics]

I made 50,000 points and then the game ended with a 01 at the bottom of the screen. Looked like a kill screen.

[@MightySquirrel]

There's two glitches in the game. It's most likely the second glitch. The first one, is if you earn too many lives. You have to hit around the 100k mark for that to happen, as you earn an extra life every 1000 points. 50 lives isn't enough to trigger it. It's most likely the second "glitch." The game has an in game timer, that if you stand still for a certain amount of time, the game resets into a demo mode. This is checked specifically at the end of every cycle. Roughly, 4 1/4 seconds, starting when the maze closes, and before you start the game. So if you start the game 10 seconds after you turn on the console, you're already down two counters. This counter does not reset when you move again, and firing a laser does not count as moving. So if you're in a laser battle standing still, it still counts as not moving.

[@puppiesarepower3682]

This is Mega Man on the Atari 2600. Looks just as fun as well.

[@alistermcintyre7347]

Love to have the voice enhanced version.

[@Hologhoul]

Where's the invading, bouncing ball/face thing? Good game!

[@basicallysnake]

Its only on hard mode he's playing on easy

[@eie2117]

There are rumors that because of this game a man died... OMG!

[@vernonhill7438]

Good

[@chrisbethel7108]

It's all bull shit stories

[@christophereuginebeatty3789]

what happened to the smiley face bouncing into the room when you take to long and can't kill?

[@electrictroy2010]

On Atari you can turn-off Evil Otto using the difficulty switches .

[@LITTLE1994]

It wasn't set on.

[@uptown215]

This game scared me as a child lol.

[@bunchypea]

Loved this as a kid. The robots terrified me for some reason! I remember imagining my school was infested with them and I was the hero who destroyed them all and saved everyone! 😂

[@electricsathome]

????

[@katie2940]

*CHICKEN- FIGHT LIKE A ROBOT*

[@privatename5788]

It's really your own fault if you die in this game. I remember playing for hours without ever shooting, just letting the robots run into walls and shoot each other. Dumbest enemies of any Atari game.

[@matthewlane518]

Have you played Atari today?

[@reesesthefennecguy7164]

He is the one...

[@rubenmantero7566]

9:30 Ryu vs Ken: Haduken! Haduken! Haduken!

[@Harry-fe9ec]

Great game but def needs the arcade audio

[@l1305]

the enemies looks like the starmans from earthbound/mother

[@michaelknoblach83]

I thought the game has 46000 levels?

[@jakejohnson6954]

I think thats just the arcade version

[@OSDCorence]

3:24 BLAZE ITTT

[@johnkerkalis6310]

Too bad the 2600 couldn't have the 23,000 different mazes.

[@tomservo5347]

Always funny to me as a kid seeing the robots stupidly walk into the wall.

[@higherground711]

Dragon Ball's animation was pretty low quality back in the day.

[@kurbusmax]

He has no neck.

[@dbloyd2]

I just bought this game today on Amazon for my 2600+. This is one of my favorite Atari 2600 games. Screw Playstation 5... lol.