Berzerk | Retro Game

Still a fun game, and I enjoy the robot voice as good as anything.
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 player can shoot at the robots to try and escape the room. Along with the robots, a smiley face known as Evil Otto appears to hunt down the player within each room.
Berzerk was one of the earliest examples of speech synthesis in arcade games.

Death
On April 3, 1982, an 18-year-old male entered Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City, Illinois. After playing Berzerk he collapsed and was pronounced dead the same day. Reports in newspapers suggested that officials were investigating if the player's heart attack was due to the stress endured while playing a video game. Mark Allen, the deputy coroner said that the autopsy found was due to scar tissue on the heart which was at least two weeks old, and said that "it's possible that the stress of the games triggered the attack in Peter's weakened heart."

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