Berzerk (video game)
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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 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.
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Developer(s) | Stern Electronics Atari, Inc. (2600) GCC (5200) Western Technologies (Vectrex) |
Publisher(s) | Stern Electronics Atari, Inc. (2600/5200) Vectrex
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Designer(s) | Alan McNeil |
Platform(s) | Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Vectrex |
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Genre(s) | Multidirectional shooter, maze[2] |
Mode(s) | 1-2 players alternating turns |
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A sequel, Frenzy, was released in 1982.