Berzerk

"The humanoid must not escape"

Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter in which the player has to navigate around a maze-like building while shooting enemies.

Berzerk is notably one of the first video games to use speech synthesis, featuring talking robots. In 1980, computer voice compression was extremely expensive—estimated at US$1,000 per word, the English version had a thirty-word vocabulary.

How to Play

The player controls a green stick man. Using a joystick and a firing button that activates a laser-like weapon, the player navigates a simple maze filled with many robots, who fire lasers back at the player character. A player can be killed by being shot, by running into a robot or an exploding robot, get electrocuted by the electrified walls of the maze itself, or by being touched by the player's nemesis, Evil Otto.

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