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Berzerk is a video game designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago.The game involves a Humanoid Intruder who has to escape maze-like rooms that are littered with robots that slowly move towards and shoot at the Humanoid.
The series has completely revived some franchises. Berzerk: Recharged, released November 8, 2023, is the first game in the Berzerk series since the 1980s. [7] [8] [9]Game developer Alan-1 Inc. licensed all ten Atari Recharged games with the intent to produce them in coin-operated video arcade cabinets. [10]
K-Razy Shoot-Out is a clone of the arcade video game Berzerk developed by K-Byte, a division of Kay Enterprises, and released for Atari 8-bit computers in 1981. [2] The game was written by Torre Meeder and Keith Dreyer, [3] and was the first Atari 8-bit cartridge from a third-party developer. [4]
A conversion of the game for the Atari 7800 was created by Bob DeCrescenzo with assistance from original Frenzy developer Alan McNeil, and sold through AtariAge. [2] On March 16, 2023, Atari announced that it had acquired the intellectual property rights to 12 Stern Electronics titles, including Berzerk and Frenzy. [3]
Super Cobra contains eleven distinct sections, versus six in Scramble, and is significantly more difficult, requiring maneuvering through tight spaces early in the game. The game was a commercial success, selling 12,337 arcade cabinets in the United States within four months, becoming Stern's third best-selling arcade game.
These games were published by Atari, and many were also licensed to Sears, which released these games under its Tele-Games brand, often with different titles. [2] Sears's Tele-Games brand was unrelated to the company Telegames , which also produced cartridges for the Atari 2600 (mostly re-issues of M Network games.) [ 3 ]
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The year's highest-grossing video game was Namco's arcade game Pac-Man, while the best-selling home system was Nintendo's Game & Watch. The Atari VCS (later called the Atari 2600) also grew in popularity with a port of Space Invaders and support from new third-party developer Activision.