Atari 2600 MARAUDER Takes BERZERK Somewhere Different

Están geniales estos vídeos explicando juegos de Atari. Ya era hora que alguien lo hiciera. 😊

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I think there's enough going on to warrant a playthrough. Thanks for the recommendation! I'll take this opportunity to throw out my semi-annual request for Pepper II on the Colecovision! Have a great today and an even better tomorrow!

SOUNDS GREAT!!! THANX FOR THIS AND PREVIOUS GAME REVIEWS…!

discovered this just a few years ago. really cool game

Great fun 2600 goodness!
Thanks for another wonderful Friday Plays episode Jon
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I guess if you're taking requests, you could Try Fast Food or Jawbreaker for 2600

I wonder if the bonus for destroying the core was higher on the Apple II version and it just didn't translate to the 2600? Then they didn't update that part of the manual?

Looks like Berserk mixed with Wizard of Wor

This is not quite berserk. It feels more like Wizard of Wor.

I never knew about this! It looks like a better Berserk! Definitely fast, furious and fun. 😎I wanted to get this right away…but it goes for about $400 on Ebay right now! Jon, you've got a real treasure on your hands!

Very fun game. There are roms out there that map the controls to a single joystick.

I wonder if it is available on AtariAge

Another one i missed out on that really looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for showcasing this one Jon, it absolutely looks worth a runthru today and had I found it as a kid I would have been super happy about it, it's the kind of 'one more go' game you want to improve on, I kind if wish it had more rooms with such a generous time bar, and spawning in the endgame room is silly and should have been coded out of happening, so not sure how much playtesting if any was done, but the AI seems competent and the action more and more frantic. The line of sight mechanic was something I didn't see until Ultima III on the Commodore 64 and I had thought it was pretty unique, only to find out all these years later it had been done a year earlier on the humble Atari VCS!

Holy Moly! The non-PAL version of Marauder on EBAY is hundreds of dollars! Guess I won't be playing this any time soon.

Cool…didn't know about this game…thanks.

Marauder has been a part of my Atari 2600 collection since 1984 or 1985. I am not quite sure.
What I am sure of is that you better pick an appropriate difficulty level if you are any good at it or otherwise your game can last ages.
I once brought my Atari 2600 with me to a friend and played so long that he threatened to pull the plug!
That day I achieved a new personal highscore but my friend was a bit angry. 😠
Well, you can't have everything, I guess… 🤷

I completely forgot about this game – I used to play it all the time and I was obsessed with it. Blimey, that's brought back some memories.

Unless somebody has knocked me off I've got the high score for emulation play over on Twin Galaxies. What about that snub nosed Colonial Viper on the box.😅

Never knew about this one! I did have the Atari 2600 version of Berzerk and played that thing all the time. This game would've been awesome. Did notice that even touching the sentry bots did not kill you. You only got killed if you got shot by the bots. That line-of-sight thing is pretty cool. Yeah, that manual does appear to be incorrect. It is 20-points per "tick" left on the timer, but does appear to maybe 1,000 points at max and not 3,200. I wonder if that was a change made in the game during play testing, but the manual never got up to date. But yeah, those damn robots do get fast on those later levels!

Great game- gets pretty tense !