Berzerk 1982 Atari
4Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter arcade game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Berzerk places the player in series of top-down, maze-like rooms containing armed robots.
Berzerk was officially ported to the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Vectrex. The Atari 2600 version features an option in which Evil Otto could be temporarily killed, though he always returns. The Atari 5200 version is the only home version to include digitized speech, though the 2600 version was hacked in 2002 to include speech. A port for the Atari 8-bit family of computers, identical to the Atari 5200 version, was ready in 1983, but was not published.
A portable version of Berzerk was planned by Coleco, similar in design to its line of VFD tabletop games including Pac-Man and Frogger, but was never released.
Milton-Bradley produced a Berzerk board game designed for two players, one playing Evil Otto and the robots, the other playing the hero. The playing pieces are plastic yellow rectangular panels that are labeled with the corresponding characters. The hero figure is differently shaped and labeled only on one side. It also has a slot in which a second piece is inserted representing the character's arms, both equipped with laser pistols. Pressing down on the back tab raises the guns and if the figure is properly positioned in the space, it knocks down a robot. Firing the weapon counts as one move.
In 1982, Stern released Frenzy as a sequel. A Berzerk arcade machine can be converted to Frenzy simply by replacing one processor (ZPU-1000 to ZPU-1001) and installing a different ROM.
Berzerk was released for iOS in 2013 as part of the Vectrex Regeneration app.
The influence of Berzerk upon popular culture is marked by appearances of the game and samples of its media within television shows, music, and movies. Several third-party clones of the original game exist, and the design of Shamus (1982) is greatly influenced by it.
Lançado em 1982 pela Atari, Berzerk foi um jogo de ação e tiro muito popular, oriundo do fliperama. Nele, o jogador tem por objetivo atirar e destruir robôs que estão espalhados em diversas galerias compostas de paredes eletrificadas.
No Brasil, se tornou um dos títulos mais famosos, devido aos seu colorido futurista, aos sons diferenciados e à sua interessante jogabilidade.
Some well known Atari 2600 emulators today are:
Stella - An open source, multiplatform emulator (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Dreamcast, Nintendo DS, Wii, GP2X).
z26 -- Another open source, multiplatform customizable emulator (Windows, MS-DOS, Linux)
javatari -- Open-source, multiplatform Java based emulator with network multiplayer features and a real console panel user interface.
PC Atari Emulator -- Easy to use, very fast emulator (Windows, MS-DOS). Handles the Cosmic Ark starfield effect correctly.
MESS -- the multi system emulator that supports all old Atari console systems
The Pocket VCS -- PPC -- Easy to use, very fast and emulator (Windows Mobile).
GP2X-2600 -- An emulator for the GP2X handheld console.
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