Berzerk 1980

Is it still worth playing?

A 1980 arcade maze shooter, designed by programmer Alan McNeil, in which a Humanoid Intruder has to escape rooms full of robots that move slowly and sometimes shoot. In each room you shoot as many robots as you can and leave through an exit on a different side, with a bonus for clearing them all. The robots fire in eight directions, and you shoot in the direction the joystick is pushed but cannot move while firing. Staying too long has a cost. A smiley face called Evil Otto eventually enters from where you came in, and he cannot be destroyed, moves through walls and follows you. Any contact ends the run: being shot, or touching a wall, a robot or Evil Otto. Rooms that have to be left before an unkillable enemy arrives still keep every one tense today.