Berzerk Fast Bullets Training began last night!

Wow its been a long time since I update this blog! I've been very busy with other video games and my personal life in general that I haven't had much opportunity to play Berzerk! However I have now decided that I want to master Fast Bullets Berzerk. I would say I'm an expert in Slow Bullets, and getting to be a master in Slow Bullets, however I consider myself a novice when it comes to Fast Bullets. My current goal is to get to 30K points in Fast Bullets. I played for about 2 hours last night and was finally able to break 20K with a score of 21,050 points. My biggest challenge at the moment is the entrance and how to survive the opening 2 seconds of the maze, I have a feeling its just going to be practicing those entrances over and over again before I can become proficient at it. I will start updating this blog again on a weekly basis with my progress in learning Berzerk RC31 Fast Bullets!

Berzerk slow bullets tonight at 10pm eastern time!

Hey everyone! I will be playing some slow bullets Berzerk tonight starting at around 10pm eastern time on my twitch channel www.twitch.tv/disjaukifa! I hope to see you there!

I got 2,504,477 points in my Frenzy Marathon!

I set out to see what I could do in a Marathon of Frenzy and I found out it was about 21 hours. I lasted 20 hours and 39 minutes before I lost all my men. My final score was 2,504,477 points. I'm working on uploading all the footage now to youtube so I can post it here.

I can honestly say that was about the most grueling experience of my life. at one point I had extra men to the 5th row, and someone told me I had 126 extra men! I'm glad I went for the record and I'm proud of my score! I will post more about this attempt when I am more recovered!

Preparing to go after the World Record in Frenzy on Saturday!

First of all welcome to 2013! So I haven't been posting much recently and there has been a good reason. I have been practicing and training to go after the world record in Stern's Frenzy which was set by Joel West and is 5,308,468 points.

This will not be an easy task, quiet frankly it will be grueling. I played a practice session of Frenzy last night and I stopped right after 4 hours of game play at which point I was around 525,000 points, so I was on a sub 8 hour million pace which I was really happy with.

Also I set a new personal record last night. I got onto my third row of men for the first time ever. When I stopped the game I had 64 men. It took 10 minutes for the game to kill off all the men. I have a strategy I will be using that will hopefully make this world record attempt successful, I will be building men to about the 5th or 6th row and that will allow me to take a 5 minute break and still have plenty of men remaining.

My marathon attempt will start this Saturday at 6am eastern time on my twitch channel. I will be playing for over 48 hours hopefully so come by and say hi! I won't be going anywhere!

I've mastered Slow Bullets, time to learn Fast Bullets!

I have not updated this blog in a while because I haven't been playing Berzerk recently. I played so much Berzerk slow bullets and so much Frenzy, and with competing against Joel West at a Berzerk slow bullets competition at the Kong Off II in Denver, Colorado at the 1-UP Barcade, I was just spent.

Since I got Berzerk, my first arcade machine, its has been my most played machine and my favorite machine as well. I started playing fast bullets as that was the game that came in the machine. In two months of playing fast bullets, my best score was 15,050 points. In March Joel West found me a set of slow bullets EPROMs for my machine and I stopped playing fast bullets. I went on to get the 199,860 in slow bullets and then focused on Frenzy but I never got back to playing fast bullets and honestly that was huge mistake.

I have to thank Alan McNeil for creating such a wonderful game, if I ever get a chance to meet him in person I just want to thank him for making 3 absolutely wonder arcade games.

A couple of days ago I was called by my friend Marcus and was told he got 22,650 in Berzerk fast bullets which is a fantastic score, and much better than any fast bullets score I have ever gotten personally.

My high score at the time of that phone call was 18,520 I believe. I decided, with some suggestions on a joint webcast from Joel and Marcus that I wasn't able to put up that kind of score, I decided to prove them wrong, and told them I would stream that night starting at 8pm.

I believe my first 4 games were all in the 15K range. I then played two horrible games and then finally my game came. I started to really figure out how to attack the fast bullet robots. I achieved a score of 22,070 points! I didn't beat Marcus' score of 22,650, but I finally broke a long time achievement, I had gotten over 20K in fast bullets Berzerk, something I was beginning to think would never happen.

After the game I turned off the stream and I talked for about an hour with Joel West about the theory of playing fast bullets and also the excitement I felt for getting a new personal best. The last thing Joel told me before I got off the phone with him was that I should play one more game and that is what I did.

I had the game of my life in fast bullets Berzerk, even though my joystick locked up on me 3 times causing 3 of my deaths, I had the best game of fast bullets Berzerk ever. I achieved a score of 25,720! I broke my high score twice in one night and I can't remember the last time I had this much excitement about playing Berzerk.

I do feel bad, I don't feel I have pushed myself as hard as I should be in slow bullets, I really need to go back and analysis my game of 199,860 and see what I can do to push my score past 200K.

So as of right now I'm waiting on another joystick to come to replace the joystick I have in the machine. I will try to post more updates to this blog as I learn more about this wonder game called Berzerk!

I also want thank everyone that has read this blog of mine on my journey through learning and mastering Berzerk! I also want to thank all the wonderful friends I have made as well because of this game!

Joel West sets a new WR in Frenzy 5,308,468 points

Joel West, one of the people from Chasing Ghost that got me into arcade gaming, not only set a new record in Frenzy, but streamed one of the most intense games of Frenzy the world has ever watched. Joel was able to break is own world record with a score of 5,308,468 points after just over 48 hours of game play! Congratulations!

The went down hill around the 29 hour mark when the VFB-1000 board started to fail, yet he was still able to carry the game another 19 hours set a new world record! Simply amazing! Joel my friend congratulations!

The Quest for a Million points in Frenzy!

So I've decided to give myself a break from Slow Bullets Berzerk and switch what I'm going to be focusing on. Instead of focusing on Fast Bullets Berzerk, I've decided to focus on Frenzy instead! And what a journey already!

In the course of 3 nights I upped my high score from 30K, to 83K to over 300K! Its been a amazing couple of exciting nights of streaming Frenzy. I now can get to 100K easily, the biggest problem I run into now is time, I have to go to bed for work or I'm just too tired to stay awake to play a long game.

I'm hoping to break 500K tonight and maybe 1,000,000 points this weekend, its just figuring out a time that I will be able to do it!