Berzerk (video game)

This article is about the 1980 video game. For the video games based on the Berserk manga series, see Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Shō and Berserk and the Band of the Hawk.
Berzerk
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)Stern Electronics
Atari, Inc. (2600)
GCC (5200)
Western Technologies (Vectrex)
Publisher(s)Stern Electronics
Atari, Inc. (2600/5200)
Vectrex
Designer(s)Alan McNeil
Platform(s)Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Vectrex, Sega Genesis
Release
1980
Genre(s)Multidirectional shooter, maze[2]
Mode(s)1-2 players alternating turns

Berzerk is a multidirectional shooter designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Following Taito's Stratovox, it is one of the first arcade video games with speech synthesis. Berzerk places the player in a series of top-down, maze-like rooms containing armed robots. Home ports were published for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Vectrex.

A sequel, Frenzy, was released in 1982.

  1. ^ "Stern Production Numbers and More CCI Photos". May 1, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  2. ^ Weiss, Brett (2011-12-20). Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide. McFarland & Company. pp. 37, 135. ISBN 978-0-7864-8755-4.