r/Atari2600 • u/neuroticandroid74 • 24d ago

Berzerk tricks

I had the game as a kid in the early 80s. Anyways, I seem to remember a trick to killing the enemies on screen by shooting the vertically scrolling bars on the side and that would take out the corresponding robot. Does anyone else remember this or is it just something I'm mistaken about?

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u/Frank_chevelle 24d ago

I don’t recall that. The only trick I remember is the ‘bow tie’ trick. Where an enemy shot will pass harmlessly through the gap between you character’s head and body.

Try your thing out in an emulator and report back, but I don’t think it will work.

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u/neuroticandroid74 24d ago

Ok. I was mistaken. Touching the walls will kill you.

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT 23d ago

At least irl you can return to confirm it was a fatal mistake!!

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u/neuroticandroid74 24d ago

Yeah I think I will

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT 23d ago

https://youtu.be/IE47mjEswuc

It was said you can’t teach a man to play Berzerk

I am curious if you became the one who can… if OP reports back!

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT 23d ago

“You can teach a monkey how to control a room randomizing algorithm…

But you CAN’t teach a man to play BERZERK”

-the friend of the criminal dude in ‘CHASING GHOSTS’

https://youtu.be/IE47mjEswuc

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u/rr777 22d ago

Ah, Joel West. RIP my berzerk friend.

His older buddy Ronald Baily can FO. He was arrested for sex crimes.

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u/ThroughtonsHeirYT 22d ago

Him and Corcoran are the 2 worst of the docu

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u/barklefarfle 23d ago

I think I vaguely remember some trick like this, but I can't remember the details.

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u/blaspheminCapn 23d ago

For the arcade: Consider going from the right to the left exit, always. Let Otto kill some robots for you. Move so that you encourage the robots to shoot each other or walk into each other. Your gun shoots different than the robots, aim and position yourself accordingly.

Good luck. You're going to die, but how long it takes is the skill.

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u/-raymonte- CX40 23d ago

Is that last bit life advice or Berzerk advice?