VIDEO GAME CARTRIDGE FOR THE ATARI(R) 5200(TM) SUPERSYSTEM 
ATARI 5200 
 
BERZERK 
The Arcade Craze Comes Home! 
 
* Trademark and (C) of Stern Electronics, Inc. 1980 
 
 
GOING BONKERS? 
 
   Try to keep from going bonkers as you dodge robot fire and elude the robot 
gang leader, Evil Otto.  Your objective: Destroy robots, rack up as many points 
as possible, and stay alive as you move through a multitude of maddening  
BERZERK mazes. 
 
   Use your joystick controller to move through the electrified maze - but  
don't touch the walls, or you'll fry!  Press any red fire button to shoot  
lasers at the robots. 
 
   Watch out for Evil Otto!  He's invincible; nothing can destroy him.  Once 
he catches you, you'll never escape.  He'll pound you to a pulp, grinning 
like a maniac all the while.  Your only hope is to get out of the maze before 
Evil Otto reaches you.  Then you'll be in a new maze, facing a new set of 
robot goons.  And Evil Otto will pursue you again! 
 
   Each round is completed when you exit from the maze.  The game ends when 
you lose your last life. 
 
[Screen shot with following labels: Evil Otto, Man, Robot, Player 1's score, 
Remaining Lives, Player 2's Score, Remaining Life] 
 
CONTROL YOURSELF 
 
   Insert the BERZERK cartridge as explained in your ATARI 5200(TM) owner's 
guide, and turn on your console. 
 
   Plug one 5200 controller into jack 1 for a one-player game; plug a second 
controller into jack 2 for two-player games.  The player using jack 1 
controls game selection and starts the game. 
 
   Use your joystick to move through the maze.  You can shoot lasers in any 
direction you move the joystick, although you cannot shoot while running or 
with the joystick set in the neutral position. 
 
   Your Self-Control Buttons - Press START to begin the battle.  Press PAUSE 
to stop and restart the action.  Press PAUSE, then RESET during game play to 
return to the title screen.  To restart the game at the skill level you last 
played, press PAUSE, then START. 
 
   Game Options - Press the * key to cycle through the eleven progressively 
more challenging skill levels.  The skill level appears next to your life 
indicators at the bottom of the screen.  If you wait a few seconds after 
selecting a skill level, the robot you'll encounter in that game appears on 
screen to demonstrate its shooting ability.  You can then see what you're up 
against before you start the action 
 
   Press the # key to select a one- or two-player game. 
 
   Hearing Voices - The built-in voice is automatically activated when you 
start the game.  To silence the voice, press the 9 key on your controller - 
the voice will say, "Chicken!  Fight like a robot!"  To reactivate the voice, 
press the 7 key on your controller - the voice will say, "The humanoid must 
not escape!" to tell you it is on again.  Listen to the built-in voice for 
valuable cues.  For example, "Intruder alert!  Intruder alert!" is a warning 
that Evil Otto is coming to get you. 
 
FIGHT OR FLIGHT 
 
   You start the game with three lives.  You lose a life if you get hit by 
laser fire, touch an exploding robot, run into a robot, touch a wall, or get 
caught by Evil Otto. 
 
   Lives remaining are displayed next to your score.  You win a bonus life at 
5000 and 10,000 points, but the maximum number of reserve lives you can have 
is four. 
 
   Initially, the robots move and shoot slowly, but as the game progresses, 
you reach more challenging skill levels.  In these higher levels, the robots 
move faster, shoot faster, and fire more shots at once.  As explained under 
GAME OPTIONS, you can start game play at a higher skill level if you choose. 
 
   When you lose a life, you start with your next life at the same level you 
last played.  In two-player games, players alternate turns each time a life 
is lost. 
 
SCORING 
 
GET THE ROBOTS! 
 
   You score 50 points for each robot destroyed.  When all the robots in a 
single maze are destroyed, you score ten bonus oints per robot.  Robots 
explode when they are hit by your laser or when they run into maze walls, 
collide with each other, or get pounded by Evil Otto.  You can score a total 
of 999,990 points before the score rolls over. 
 
A-MAZING TIPS 
 
   * As you move from one maze to another, continue pressing the fire button. 
It takes the robots a moment to start their attack - you can often zap them 
first when you enter shooting. 
 
   * Evil Otto always enters in the same place you do.  Try to get away from 
this danger zone and near an exit as soon as possible. 
 
   * Because Evil Otto bounces up and down, it's easier to escape him through 
the side exits than the top or bottom exits. 
 
   * In difficult levels where there are a lot of fast-moving, fast-shooting 
robots, head for the cover of a maze wall immediately.  Allow the robots to 
collide with each other and to shoot one another or to walk into your firing 
range.  But don't wait too long or you'll be trapped! 
 
 
[Fuji] 
ATARI(R) A Warner Communications Company (Warner W) 
Printed in U.S.A. 
(C) 1983 Atari, Inc. 
All rights reserved. 
 
Reproduction in whole or part is forbidden without the written permission of 
Atari, Inc.  1312 Crossman Ave., P.O. Box 61657, Sunnyvale, CA  94086 
 
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