I love how Evil Otto has a smile on his face, and how he takes his sweet time coming to get the intruder, but this is one of my faves, thanks for uploading.
I played Berzerk back in 1980 when it was brand new. I went to an arcade with a friend near his house, and I remember the room was pretty dark during the day with all the lights off, and it fascinated me how the game looked in the dark. Also, I thought that computerized speech was so cool, and that paved the way for the business I'm running now, a system that reads email and web pages over the phone with a computerized voice.
I unboxed one of these upright video game's when it came out. I worked for an amusement company. We had almost every game made including these. We had multiple game's to put in arcades. I remember playing this game and I would get so pissed off LOL
there was also another version of this game called Frenzy..., i remember it being really hard. you could shoot through walls, the laser blast would bounce back and forth like they had hit mirrors, and the robots were much faster. to sort of compensate for the difficulties, you could move the humanoid independently of his firing direction using two joysticks. the game wasn't out long because i think it got eclipsed by pac-man or something similar.
I've played the Colecovision port on the "Colecovision flashback" and fast forward to today I play "Coleco Frenzy" on the "Legends Flashback DX", which is a Sam's club exclusive.
These games look simple, but the gameplay and replayability are there, and that's what a lot of games with beautiful graphics and impressive sound often lack.
dashcammer Do you not know the two deaths behind this game? A teenager got the highscore for this game and then when he entered his initials he died of a heart attack. Same thing goes for the second teenager who beat the high score and entered his initials died of a heart attack.
@@spamtongreatsalesmanspamto4163 I know that in the original, he was indestructible. However I'd see him more as a boss-type enemy that shows up @ the end of certain levels instead of one that appears all the time on every stage.
Yep.And I must get it straight:this is the second set of Berzerk. That's why the robots shoot with slow lasers and stay in cyan color after the 1,500 points. And Evil Otto is 2 times faster than the Humanoid.Robots stay in cyan color and shoot with 7 fast lasers after the 19,000 points in the first set of Berzerk.
I watched 4 minutes. You have skills. This game I could never play, and you are not using any cheat codes. Great job, and a great video showing what this game is about.
I always wanted to know what the back story to Berzerk was. Why the fuck was this poor dude running through a robot maze? And who the hell was Evil Otto?
Get it? I swear there were times the voice would say "chicken, fight like a robot" But then again this was 30+ years ago. Definitely might not be remembering correctly
DYK the sequel Frenzy gave us Pre-Terminator Franchise T-Series Endoskeletons & Dalek-like tanks in Evil Otto's arsenel? I should know playing Frenzy on a Coleco Flashback
Then you would love the version released on the Vectrex home game system many years ago. No speech on the original version although I think that there's a homebrew version of it that does.
I remember the Berzerk arcade machine was at a hotel in Malaga, Spain where I was staying. Some young American guy would play it and any time that bouncy face appeared he would yell out, "its the BUZZsaw!". Being a young British kid at the time I had no idea what he was on about but I found it amusing, and bizarrely its stuck with me over 30 years later. Now I live in the USA and am an American citizen.
what a FUN game! i played this first on the vectrex. did not know it existed in the arcades till just now. does this game have an ending? or you just keep playing for high score?
Excellent. I found the long version to play on open mic in DayZ, thanks. Show them Gen poop kids what arcade skills are all about. Only thing is I've started prioritizing killing every chicken I come across. For some reason I was best at Buck Rogers, planet of zoom. Clocked it with me dad watching. Good times.
Slow bullets, at the 15k mark the bullets should be super fast. My best score was 19,580 on a genuine aracade. Could have cracked 20k if the joystick didn't stick as much
tron3entertainment That’s not what happened. The guy was so determined to win the game that he overworked himself, which resulted in heart problems, and people got extremely freaked out because he collapsed right after reaching his high score.
I like this game and every people tha says that the creppy is real are liar because one of the "victim" died 5 months earlier and the only one that died because of a hearth attack it was because he was out with snow and have hearth problem so he died when he was playing
This game is really dangerous because during the early 80s Two teenagers died by making a high score I don't remember what they were but they died from the high score believe me or not but it's true.I rather y go check out the sticky paddle and find beserk(evil Otto)
It's the 2nd set(berzerk1,fast Evil Otto,and the robots stay at cyan color AFTER 1,500 points). In the 1st.set of berzerk,robots shoot fast bullets after 7,500. Not a cheat.
When I saw the title for Berzerk and 42,000, I thought Holy Shit this guy must be good! Then I watched it and waited for the speed of the robot's bullets to match the player's bullets, and it never happened. This is an easy version. I'd probably put up over a million on that sucker.
Not exactly. The first guy died from a heart attack caused by a previously undiagnosed heart condition after playing and the second one was killed by being stabbed outside the arcade by another guy after supposedly fighting over a quarter left on the machine to reserve a game of Berzerk. Strangely enough both deaths occurred at the same arcade and with the same Berzerk upright machine.
I love how Evil Otto has a smile on his face, and how he takes his sweet time coming to get the intruder, but this is one of my faves, thanks for uploading.
ria1313 Nice compliment for this video.
Every time Evil Otto smiles, someone dies.
Then how is he able to survive this? It os clear that evil otto is a creepypasta myth to me.
@@Solongsocialmedia what part of my comment sounded serious lol
@@MetalDeeds We chat in youtube so we cannot tell. Also do u believe the evil otto stories are fake?
I played Berzerk back in 1980 when it was brand new. I went to an arcade with a friend near his house, and I remember the room was pretty dark during the day with all the lights off, and it fascinated me how the game looked in the dark. Also, I thought that computerized speech was so cool, and that paved the way for the business I'm running now, a system that reads email and web pages over the phone with a computerized voice.
Did your friend die of a heart attack?
THE HUMANOID MUST NOT ESCAPE
HANDS UP INTRUDER
😂😂😂😂 and inside the robots are little lizards people😂😂😂😂
CHICKEN FIGHT LIKE A ROBOT
INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT
KILL THE INTRUDER
Totally satisfied my fix for seeing this game in action again! Thanks for doing this.
Funny that it says "Chicken, fight like a robot!" when the robots are constantly destroying each other or smashing themselves against walls.
yeah don't fight like a robot, that'll just get you ooofed
"Got the humanoid, got the intruder!" ... well played. Loved this game.
13:21 Destroy the chicken fight like a robot lol
therealhardrock Yeah. Fight like a robot. (Runs into walls, runs into each other, shoots 1 another, and gets destroyed by Evil Otto) 😂
I unboxed one of these upright video game's when it came out. I worked for an amusement company. We had almost every game made including these. We had multiple game's to put in arcades. I remember playing this game and I would get so pissed off LOL
Stevo , what system console can play this game just like it?
'Chicken - fight like a robot' - Um you mean shoot your own side and then walk into a wall?
I love the reference to to this game on one of the early episodes of Futurama 😁
I remember the shabby coffee shop that I played this game in while I was in high school 40 years ago
there was also another version of this game called Frenzy..., i remember it being really hard.
you could shoot through walls, the laser blast would bounce back and forth like they had hit mirrors, and the robots were much faster.
to sort of compensate for the difficulties, you could move the humanoid independently of his firing direction using two joysticks.
the game wasn't out long because i think it got eclipsed by pac-man or something similar.
You could also kill Evil Otto, but each time you did, another one, twice as fast, came out.
I've played the Colecovision port on the "Colecovision flashback" and fast forward to today I play "Coleco Frenzy" on the "Legends Flashback DX", which is a Sam's club exclusive.
To the 26 dislikes: CHICKEN,FIGHT LIKE A ROBOT!
+123456RaulMorales The 11 people who disliked need to be eliminated as the robots ;)
8 of the 11 robots disliked you but look on the bright side 3 have changed their opinion of you the human.
123456RaulMorales they probably hate you because you played this on set 2, which has much easier difficulty and less variety of robots.
The voice is really trippy! XD
These games look simple, but the gameplay and replayability are there, and that's what a lot of games with beautiful graphics and impressive sound often lack.
dashcammer Do you not know the two deaths behind this game?
A teenager got the highscore for this game and then when he entered his initials he died of a heart attack.
Same thing goes for the second teenager who beat the high score and entered his initials died of a heart attack.
2017 and this is still the type of games i prefer!
wow i aint seen that since i was 8 way back in 1980 - never forgot the scary as fack computer voice - total classic!
We NEED a reboot of Berzerk! Imagine an FPS with the current graphics today and the basic gameplay of the original intact!
Fully Agree!
What about Evil Otto then?
@@spamtongreatsalesmanspamto4163 I know that in the original, he was indestructible. However I'd see him more as a boss-type enemy that shows up @ the end of certain levels instead of one that appears all the time on every stage.
@@actorben would you mind drawing a picure of how it would look?
@@spamtongreatsalesmanspamto4163 same 8 bit smiley face
Awesome video my friend 🎮 I enjoyed watching👍
everybody gangsta till they hear "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!" behind them
Ever notice that the robot explosions look like a smiley face?
this is a simple concept with low resolution graphics and IT IS STILL AWESOME!
Does the humanoid escape?
THE INTRUDER MUST NOT ESCAPE!
T H E H U M A N O I D M U S T N O T E S C A P E ! ! !
i remember that if you moved back and forth you could get the robots to collide into each other and be destroyed
One of my faves, thanks!
GOT THE HUMANOID/GOT THE INTRUDER
Dude playing it on easy, when i played at the arcade, the higher you got, the faster the robots shoot, they've been shooting slow the entire time.
Yep.And I must get it straight:this is the second set of Berzerk. That's why the robots shoot with slow lasers and stay in cyan color after the 1,500 points. And Evil Otto is 2 times faster than the Humanoid.Robots stay in cyan color and shoot with 7 fast lasers after the 19,000 points in the first set of Berzerk.
I remember getting soooooohiiiiiggghhhh and playing this all night!!
I watched 4 minutes. You have skills. This game I could never play, and you are not using any cheat codes. Great job, and a great video showing what this game is about.
The one for Atari 2600 was good, the only flaw was, the robots didn't shoot diagonaly.
one more : there are only 4 kinds of maze.
Ok, that too
It also did not include the robotic voice
This game is still pretty addictive and fun all these years later
Walking among the mazes has no escape
This and Defender! both awesome!
The humanoid must not escape.
Great Memories . Must release this on arcade 1 up!
Yes. An Arcade 1up Berzerk/Frenzy combination unit would be totally awesome! I've repeatedly emailed and tweeted them this suggestion.
Sounds like my manager at work...(The Intruder must not escape!) But seriously, great job!
Forest Mozer really knew how to make a compressed voice sound good.
"That Humanoid Must Not Escape"
I always wanted to know what the back story to Berzerk was. Why the fuck was this poor dude running through a robot maze? And who the hell was Evil Otto?
Get it?
I swear there were times the voice would say "chicken, fight like a robot"
But then again this was 30+ years ago. Definitely might not be remembering correctly
Attack the chicken!
The H-U-M-A-N-O-I-D must not escape.
DYK the sequel Frenzy gave us Pre-Terminator Franchise T-Series Endoskeletons & Dalek-like tanks in Evil Otto's arsenel? I should know playing Frenzy on a Coleco Flashback
"Destroy the Intruder" "Intruder Alert"
This and Space Ace got all my money
Galaxian and Tempest got mine.
This player is good.
what a pro. I could stay on Galaxian for 30 minutes with 10p
Satan was sleeping at that point so this guy got lucky.
DYNAMICALLY SWITCHING SOUNDS DURING A SEQUENCE
I remember playing this at the Game On convention in Seattle years ago
I think they should have used vector graphics for this game. It would have been perfect for the vector style.
Agree!
Agree!
Then you would love the version released on the Vectrex home game system many years ago. No speech on the original version although I think that there's a homebrew version of it that does.
Bloody hard game and chicken,fight, like, a, robot. We played this and I was gob shite!
10:40 GOT THE HUMANOID GOT THE INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT
Otto Mozer, is that you?
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I wonder why I got a wierd feeling...maybe its just the game
skills!
This game should have been called 'Robot Wars'!
BTW, when all lives are lost, there are two words missing..."GAME OVER!!"
Agree!
drukqs and caustic window samples galore
Those robots are so stupid. They keep running into each other and shooting each other. 😂
Fully Agree! 😂😂😂😂
123456RaulMorales Oh and I forgot. They also run into walls and into Evil Otto. 😂
It's part of their charm.
To those 2 dislikes, CHICKEN LIKE LIKE A ROBOT.
teaP23445 my bad i wasn't thinking...
I remember the Berzerk arcade machine was at a hotel in Malaga, Spain where I was staying. Some young American guy would play it and any time that bouncy face appeared he would yell out, "its the BUZZsaw!". Being a young British kid at the time I had no idea what he was on about but I found it amusing, and bizarrely its stuck with me over 30 years later. Now I live in the USA and am an American citizen.
DESTROY ALL HUMANOIDS!
You is the best 👌💪😱
what a FUN game! i played this first on the vectrex. did not know it existed in the arcades till just now. does this game have an ending? or you just keep playing for high score?
Just keeping play for higscore like a flappy bird
Video Games Are Fun If you finish the game, you will definitely die from epilepsy.
ahhhh memories....
Excellent. I found the long version to play on open mic in DayZ, thanks. Show them Gen poop kids what arcade skills are all about. Only thing is I've started prioritizing killing every chicken I come across. For some reason I was best at Buck Rogers, planet of zoom. Clocked it with me dad watching. Good times.
Loved this game a long long long time ago want to find it!!
archive.org/details/arcade_berzerk
You're welcome!
Creator of the Creppypasta:123456 dead
123456:new video
Otto is really creepy
Intruder alert? How'd he get in? Intruder window?
Why wasn't there any purple robots?
Because this is the second set (berzerk1). with a fast Evil Otto after 5,000 and the robots keep the cyan color from 1,500 and on. Period.
@@123456RaulMorales I see thankyou
Slow bullets, at the 15k mark the bullets should be super fast. My best score was 19,580 on a genuine aracade. Could have cracked 20k if the joystick didn't stick as much
The humanoid never escapes as the game goes on endlessly. One guy actually died from playing the game for hours on end. Evil Otto indeed!
How many levels? Did he make it to the immortals? I guess not because he died.
tron3entertainment That’s not what happened. The guy was so determined to win the game that he overworked himself, which resulted in heart problems, and people got extremely freaked out because he collapsed right after reaching his high score.
es leyenda urbana el juego para arcade
They should remake this game
Fully Agree!!
KIL IT
Scott's movements
ATTACK THE HUMINOID
27:30 Is it my idea, or did those androids just destroy themselves?
nice sound.
Escape to where?
What is your Highest Score?
Evil Otto = Mr happy
I like this game and every people tha says that the creppy is real are liar because one of the "victim" died 5 months earlier and the only one that died because of a hearth attack it was because he was out with snow and have hearth problem so he died when he was playing
3:23 for a sce it glitches here
vine para ver si estaba muerto por la maldicion pero al final no paso nada :(
At first I played This Game In 2022 And I Died By robots XD
It's like being 15 again :-)
This game is really dangerous because during the early 80s
Two teenagers died by making a high score I don't remember what they were but they died from the high score believe me or not but it's true.I rather y go check out the sticky paddle and find beserk(evil Otto)
I didn't know two morons meant a video game is dangerous
I prefer the Atari 2600 version
Wow, I so don't remember this yat I was the king of this game in the 1980s
Poor man's Robotron...
Robotron is not a maze game is it?
@@eternalnut No.
@@WillScarlet1991 And is Berzerk a maze game?
CHARGE IT
Vim pelo canal "Você sabia?" kkkk..
Combichrist : Intruder Alert xD
THE HUMANOID DID NOT ESCAPE! WHAT A TRAGIC END U__U
=)
wait a second... the enemies are staying at cyan color. I smell a cheat...
It's the 2nd set(berzerk1,fast Evil Otto,and the robots stay at cyan color AFTER 1,500 points). In the 1st.set of berzerk,robots shoot fast bullets after 7,500. Not a cheat.
123456RaulMorales Ah, I was wondering about this. I would normally be very lucky to get beyond 10,000 with fast bullet mode.
123456RaulMorales Ah, I was wondering about this. I would normally be very lucky to get beyond 10,000 with fast bullet mode.
When I saw the title for Berzerk and 42,000, I thought Holy Shit this guy must be good! Then I watched it and waited for the speed of the robot's bullets to match the player's bullets, and it never happened. This is an easy version. I'd probably put up over a million on that sucker.
Coin detected in pocket
Was Berzerk that one game that killed people or something?
Not exactly. The first guy died from a heart attack caused by a previously undiagnosed heart condition after playing and the second one was killed by being stabbed outside the arcade by another guy after supposedly fighting over a quarter left on the machine to reserve a game of Berzerk. Strangely enough both deaths occurred at the same arcade and with the same Berzerk upright machine.
No (what is all this stuff about 'Berzerk is cursed'??)