History VideoGame / Berzerk

May have inspired ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein'' and its update, ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''. Not to be confused with the 1967 British B-movie ''Film/{{Berserk}}'' or to the dark fantasy manga ''{{Manga/Berserk}}''.

* HitboxDissonance: See the humanoid in the picture at the top of this page? Well, its head and body have two separate hitboxes. A horizontal shot through [[RaymanianLimbs that gap where the neck would be]], is entirely harmless. Call it an "Asimovian necktie".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: You can kill youtself in ''Frenzy'' with your own shots if you aren't careful with the reflective walls.

* RaymanianLimbs: The humanoid's neck. See HitboxDissonance above.

May have inspired ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein'' and its update, ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''. Unrelated to the manga ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' (except for the whole endless, futile war thing).

->''"Got the humanoid! Got the intruder!"''

May have inspired ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein'' and its update, ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''. Unrelated to the manga ''{{Berserk}}'' (except for the whole endless, futile war thing).

* ShootEmUps

* ArtificialStupidity: The player can use the other robots to kill each other and make Evil Otto smash the robots. They're slightly smarter in ''Frenzy'' (they won't walk into each other, for example), but not by much.
** In the {{Atari 2600}} version, the robots couldn't walk into each other (due to a one-robot-per-scanline technical limitation), but were much more likely to walk into walls.

* DeadlyWalls: Rare non-shoot'em up example. Averted in ''Frenzy''.

!!''Berzerk'' provides examples of:

* AttractMode

* ModdDissonance: Evil Otto is out to murder you, and will happily destroy any robots that happen to be in his way. He's also a bouncing ''smiley face.''

->"Got the humanoid! Got the intruder!"

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[[caption-width:256:"Chicken! Fight like a robot!"]]

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''Intruder alert! Intruder alert!''

This game provides examples of:

''Berzerk'' (Stern Electronics, 1980) was one of the first video games to have voice synthesis, which it put to good use. It compels passersby to play by saying, "Coin detected in pocket"; spurs its computerized cohorts to victory with, "Stop the humanoid. Stop the intruder"; expresses its consternation with the player's success by saying, "The humanoid must not escape", and, most famously, insults a fleeing player with, "Chicken. Fight like a robot."

''Berzerk'' (1980) was one of the first video games to have voice synthesis, which it put to good use. It compels passersby to play by saying, "Coin detected in pocket"; spurs its computerized cohorts to victory with, "Stop the humanoid. Stop the intruder"; expresses its consternation with the player's success by saying, "The humanoid must not escape", and, most famously, insults a fleeing player with, "Chicken. Fight like a robot."

* HitboxDissonance: See the humanoid in the picture at the top of this page? Well, its head and body have two separate hitboxes. A horizontal shot through that gap where the neck would be, is entirely harmless. Call it an "Asimovian necktie".

May have inspired ''Castle Wolfenstein'' and its update, ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''. Unrelated to the manga ''{{Berserk}}'' (except for the whole endless, futile war thing).

''Berzerk'' was one of the first video games to have voice synthesis, which it put to good use. It compels passersby to play by saying, "Coin detected in pocket"; spurs its computerized cohorts to victory with, "Stop the humanoid. Stop the intruder"; expresses its consternation with the player's success by saying, "The humanoid must not escape", and, most famously, insults a fleeing player with, "Chicken. Fight like a robot."

The game received a sequel, ''Frenzy'', which introduces two styles of robots (skeletons and tanks, who act the same, but the skeletons are slightly harder to hit from above or below), a temporarily-destroyable Evil Otto, destructible and reflective walls, and "Special" rooms with some feature that adds a twist to the normal game (the Robot Factory constantly sends out new robots, shooting the Power Plant immobilizes all robots in the room, shooting the Central Computer causes all robots in the room to go crazy and destroy each other, and Big Otto gets very very angry if you destroy Evil Otto in his chamber).

The game received a sequel, ''Frenzy''. May have inspired ''Castle Wolfenstein'' and its update, ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D''. Unrelated to the manga ''{{Berserk}}'' (except for the whole endless, futile war thing).

* ArtificialStupidity: The player can use the other robots to kill each other and make Evil Otto smash the robots.

* MoralGuardians (see above)

* NintendoHard: Most people can'tlast three rooms.

* OhCrap: "Intruder alert! Intruder alert!"

* PerpetualSmiler: Evil Otto, though in the sequel ''Frenzy'' you can shoot him and his smile will turn into a frown.

* BigMonsterCuteName: Evil Otto... though the big monster himself was cute too, being rendered as a smiley face. Originally, this was a temporary graphic until the programmer could think of something cool to use. The idea of players running away from something so cute and insipid was funny to the programmer. So Evil Otto stayed a happy face. In ''CaptainSNES'', Alex's greatest fear, death, manifests itself as Evil Otto.