Sabertooth Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 (edited) Berzerk: Recharged (2023) Atari VCS Controller: MODERN CONTROLLER / CLASSIC CONTROLLER / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Normal Game, Arcade Mode Play on: Real Hardware ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST March 31, 2024 Objective Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between February 1st through February 29, 2024. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor! Eligibility This is a Club VCS Exclusive Challenge. All Club VCS players are welcome! Play Rules Games may be played on real Atari VCS hardware. Choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level We are playing BERZERK: RECHARGED in ARCADE MODE! Select your score modifiers of choice and fight like a robot to achieve the highest possible score! Fair Play Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage. Everybody hates a cheater. More To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: Message Welcome to our 25th Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge!!! For this challenge, we're taking on SqueakyBox and Atari's take on the classic Stern arcade title Berzerk! When Atari announced its acquisition of a dozen Stern Electronics retro game IPs in March 2023, including Berzerk, everyone wondered how long it would take for the publisher to release BERZERK: RECHARGED. Nine months later, a frenetic twin-stick shooter with a divisive art style and play mechanics. As we wrote in Issue 01 of the Club VCS Fanzine preview, the design has received a mixed response from fans. Some have likened the player character to a ‘50s sci-fi version of Conan O’brien. Others pine for a more traditional take on the robots and Evil Otto. Taken on it's own, BERZERK: RECHARGED is a solid twin-stick and a lot of fun. But don't take my word for. Join in the challenge and fight like a robot! Play in ARCADE mode from level one and take the game as far as you can for the high score! Club VCS Recharged Squad Contest This game is the third title in our fifth Club VCS contest giveaway! Prize details will be announced shortly. This time we're going a full 12 rounds with the winner announced in January 2025! 1) All challenge participants will receive one (1) entry for each challenge in which they submit a valid score! 2) The top scorer of each challenge will receive two (2) additional entries - for a total of three (3) entries in a single challenge! 3) On Twitch or Youtube? Stream or record and post your ClubVCS high score attempt for one (1) additional entry in each round. You must post a public link to the video in the Challenge. This contest is open to everybody, including Atari I/O Moderators, with a U.S. or Canada mailing address. It's really easy, all you have to do is participate be a Club VCS member and participate in our Recharged Squad Challenges. Edited March 1 by Sabertooth Justin and Cryptocoffee13 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted March 1 Author Report Share Posted March 1 Let's get the word out about this Recharged Squad Challenge! The more people participating the more fun the challenge! Spread the word and invite friends to play! Cryptocoffee13 and Justin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted March 1 Author Report Share Posted March 1 New to Berzerk: Recharged? Check out this review by @Funkmaster V! Cryptocoffee13 and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted March 1 Author Report Share Posted March 1 100,520 with a Modern. Smell Dawg and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted March 1 Author Report Share Posted March 1 130,680 with a Modern. A new personal best, but only 22 on the global leaderboards. Smell Dawg and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 (edited) Imma going to have to setup my VCS now. Drats! I'm going to borrow the Atari IO World Champs Logo. I'll return it when I'm done. Thanks! Edited March 3 by Atari 5200 Guy Justin and Sabertooth 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 My first attempt: 26,315 Cryptocoffee13, Justin, Sabertooth and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 Haven't played in a while. Fun game Smell Dawg, Justin and Sabertooth 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 Sabertooth, Smell Dawg and Justin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 3 hours ago, Atari 5200 Guy said: Imma going to have to setup my VCS now. Drats! I'm going to borrow the Atari IO World Champs Logo. I'll return it when I'm done. Thanks! @Atari 5200 Guy Here's a nice big clear one if you need it Atari 5200 Guy, Cryptocoffee13, Smell Dawg and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockduck Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 Here's my first score: 104,960 My problem with the way Berzerk Recharged does its high score system is the same issue I have with Quantum: Recharged: The bonuses become mandatory for the leaderboards. You get +100% for having one life, +100% for no powerups, and +100 for no dash, meaning a 25,000 score ends up at 100,000. Meanwhile, to get 100,000 points without the bonuses you'd have to get so much further through the game as to be impractical. I went further than I'd ever gone before this weekend and ended up with an unmodified 57,000. That woulda been at least 114,000 if I'd just ditched the dash, up to 228,000 if I'd used the full bonuses. It means that in order to get the highest score you HAVE to use the score modifiers, which seems like the wrong way to do it. They should be maybe +25% at best. Justin, Cryptocoffee13, Sabertooth and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 On 3/3/2024 at 12:50 AM, Justin said: @Atari 5200 Guy Here's a nice big clear one if you need it OK. Thank! You can have this one back. Sabertooth and Justin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 I keep getting worse the more I play. Definitely more frustrating than Mars Recharged. Not going to bust a controller over this. Lol Justin, Sabertooth and Smell Dawg 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damon Posted March 6 Report Share Posted March 6 Here's my first shot at it. I agree they probably give too much bonus with the bonuses but I'd still play it this way anyway. Cryptocoffee13, Smell Dawg, Sabertooth and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damon Posted March 6 Report Share Posted March 6 2nd Attempt and color adjustment. This would be a lot easier with a capture card or if I got better with my phone. Sabertooth, Smell Dawg and Justin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 6 Report Share Posted March 6 This is annoying going backwards Everytime Justin, Sabertooth and Smell Dawg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 Not in the mood to keep going. Justin and Sabertooth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 I took out my frustrations on a few other Recharged games Challenges and put my AtariJoe13 VCS username up to #1 and some top 5 scores. Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 11 Report Share Posted March 11 Not in the mood to keep going. Sabertooth and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted March 12 Author Report Share Posted March 12 22 hours ago, Cryptocoffee13 said: Not in the mood to keep going. This is for fun and bragging rights. If a game is too frustrating, by all means take a break from it! Justin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 Ehh Sabertooth and Justin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptocoffee13 Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 New update, still can't break 100k Justin and Sabertooth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted March 24 Report Share Posted March 24 I gave up for a while. I can’t get close to the score I made. Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariEnthusiast07 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 @Atari 5200 Guy I hate that when set high score but instead you set it for your self Atari 5200 Guy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariEnthusiast07 Posted March 27 Report Share Posted March 27 @Atari 5200 Guy My Son set high score of 183,790 and it was crazy Atari 5200 Guy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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