1982 Quicksilva (UK)
by David Shea
I think this was the first version of 'Berserk' I played in the Spectrum. It was never my cup of tea. At the time I was busy playing Manic Miner, Ant Attack, Aquaplane, H.E.R.O., etc and this game was already very old (a year or two old!) for any kid to fully enjoy.
Anyway I still played it many times and always found the simple but strange atmosphere very interesting, in fact all these simple early games, with matchstick figures or almost without any graphics, had this effect on my imagination.
Strangely I still play Berzerk, the emulated arcade original and I find it extremely addictive even if the reward is only the change of color on the enemies and of course, the increase on their fire power and speed.
Frenzy is a poor conversion, probably written in BASIC, the keys do not respond properly and it's too primitive even for the day.
But features a few interesting novelties not found on the arcade, like another robot spreading mines around the maze, or a squared like character moving around the maze, and it's fairly addictive for the time.
