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''K-Razy Shoot-Out'' is a clone of the arcade video game '' Berzerk'' developed by K-Byte, a division of Kay Enterprises, and released for
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in 1981. The game was written by Torre Meeder and Keith Dreyer, and was the first Atari 8-bit cartridge from a
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. An
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version followed in 1983. The team of Dreyer and Meeder also wrote the 1983 Atari 8-bit game '' Boulders and Bombs''. ''K-Razy Shoot-Out'' is part of a series of titles with the "K-" prefix, including ''K-Razy Kritters'' and ''K-Star Patrol''. All of them were published on cartridge. After CBS Software purchased K-Byte, the games were published under the CBS brand, including the Atari 5200 port of ''K-Razy Shoot-Out''.


Gameplay

As in ''Berzerk'', the goal is to destroy all of the
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s occupying a series of randomly generated
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s. In ''Berzerk'', if the player takes too long to clear a maze, an indestructible bouncing
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("Evil Otto") drives the player to an exit. ''K-Razy Shoot-Out'' uses a visible timer instead. If the timer runs out, the game ends. If the player exits a maze without clearing it, the player has to replay one or two mazes without getting points.


Reception

''K-Razy Shoot-Out'' sold 35,000 copies by June 1982. John J. Anderson of '' Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games'', wrote that as a ''Berzerk'' clone, "the only element that's missing is the speech ... lots of fun, and has a great deal of staying power". It won the 1983 Arcade Award for "Best Arcade/Action Computer Game" from ''
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'' magazine. The '' Berzerk'' similarity was mentioned, but also that the game has "a unique flavor" on its own way.


See also

* '' Robot Attack'' * '' Robon'' * ''
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References

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