The reason? Beating the game carried a cursed-after all, take the “1” and “0” off the score, and you’re left with the number “666.” What’s the connection between Dailey and Burkowski? Just after they both made their high scores, they both died instantly of a heart attack. In 1982, an 18-year-old named Peter Burkowski played two very good games of Berzerk in a row, landing in the top 10 “high scores” chart on his arcade’s model. In 1981, a 19-year-old man named Jeff Dailey compiled the highest score possible in the game: 16,660. The story: In the 1980 arcade video game Berzerk, players traveled through a maze and had to use a laser to kill robots before the robots killed them.
That means they’re old and established enough to have their own spooky myths and horror stories. Video games have been a part of the culture now for more than 30 years.
