You know your a Berzerk nut when . . .

disjaukifa

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. . . . you have two Berzerk's full up and running in your basement! I've now got a RC28 Slow Bullets Berzerk machine and a RC31 Fast Bullets Berzerk machine. I finally got the fast bullets machine working last night, it had been working minus speech. Here's a picture, I'll post a better image tonight!

Pending pictures I might be getting Frenzy soon as well, so I'll have a wall of Berzerk's!

If I can find one more Berzerk cabinet, I have an idea for another Berzerk machine, but finding another cheap cabinet might not be easy . . .

-Disjaukifa
 

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Awesome man! Glad you got them both up and running!

Thanks! Yeah it turned out to be the ribbon cable I had between the sound board and the speech board. I have 5 speech boards, and thought they were all bad, but it turns out 3 work fine and 2 don't! I think I can fix one of the two that doesn't work, it has some corrosion on the back and it looks like some solder joints broke, but the other I think might be a lost cause!
 
Sooooo jealous!!! I need to get mine up and running. Going to make an adapter to put an ATX or switching supply in it. . tired of the flaky-ass power supplies!
 
Sooooo jealous!!! I need to get mine up and running. Going to make an adapter to put an ATX or switching supply in it. . tired of the flaky-ass power supplies!

I guess I've just been lucky . . . all my power supplies have been great and I've got two spares, though I need to check to see if they work.

I would really love to find one more Berzerk machine and a Monochrome black and white monitor and make a Black and White Berzerk with RC28 Slow Bullets in it, especially since that was how the game was originally intended to be . . . I'm just a Berzerk nut!

I mean look at my avatar . . . and then my blog . . .

-Disjaukifa
 
You need to make a video showing the difference between the fast and slow bullets. I have a Berzerk, but I don't know if it's the slow or fast-bullet version.
 
You need to make a video showing the difference between the fast and slow bullets. I have a Berzerk, but I don't know if it's the slow or fast-bullet version.

I can do that! In your version of Berzerk do the robots go from yellow -> red -> light cyan -> green -> purple -> yellow -> white -> etc?

If they do then you have fast bullets. All the Berzerk machines I've ever played or seen are fast bullets, meaning at 7500 points the robots start to shoot faster.
 
RC28 Berzerk:



RC31 Berzerk:



Most people have only played fast bullets. Those two videos are my high scores to date in each version of the game.
 
Yes there were two deaths in the 1980's from supposedly playing Berzerk, and the cause of death I think was heart failure for both men.

Jeff Dailey age 19 in January 1981
Peter Burkowski age 18 in October 1982

I wonder if either of those 2 machines still exists?... Even if the deaths had nothing to do with the game, I don't think I'd want them around...bad mojo for sure!
 
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