I have very fond memories of playing this with my father, funny how you forget the time you spend with people. He was great at this, he loved blowing up the ships.
I loved this when I was much much younger. I remember the follow up and was blown away by that as well. My brother and I never got tired of either games. I literally remember all of this like it was yesterday. Great days - still gaming. Never lost my love for it. C64/Amiga my formative years.
Bruce Carver was THE soul of the C64 early years. I think about him sometimes... I played Beach Head on my CBM64 from 1984 till 199...7 ! Remember: he's the creator of Access Software and of all of these famous C64 games that were "Raid over Moscow", the fantastic "Beach Head II" and the famous "Leaderboard" series, (ultra realistic golf). And no-one has perfectly used the SID component like him, with digitalized voices on BH II in 1984 !!!
The same group that did the speech for Beach Head II were the same speech synthesis group that did the speech for Impossible Mission. They both used the same software package for the speech.
Love Impossible Mission, the entire 'Games' series was a blast - I remember being endlessly frustrated by Beach-Head and Raid over Moscow - thanks for bringing that back up! - a few major oversights though - Family Feud and Jepoardy! were both great, Karateka was a classic, Karnov and Wizards and warlocks were both decent ports. But hands-down the best game of all for the C64 was Space Rogue (1989 Origin). One of the first things I did when I got a PC circa 2000 was download a DOS port that I could play (and finally beat) that game. I remember having the star map up on my wall for years - it was the first game with GTA-style open world options - you could be a pirate, a trader, a bounty hunter, etc. Awesome awsome game to this day.
I was playing this last night and said to myself, "Why aren't these battleships going down? I knew I had sunk them before?" Now I know why! Great refresher!
Even without nostalgia, what an absolutely wonderfull game this still is. The gameplay in place for each of the game parts is very well realised with risk vs reward on the final tank section especially suprising Something great will remain just that and here is a fine example
Whoah, great memories. I've never seen it played as smoothly as this. I would spend many summer days trying to beat this game, and it was one of my favorites.
I loved this game back in the day. Its memory just hit me out of the blue for some reason, so I decided to come to TH-cam to see what it was like. I had forgotten so much about it!
Yeah I'm 33 now and as a kid this game made me rage quit so many times, the problem was every time I would rage quit I had to wait about half an hour for the game to load again to have another go
You can play it again on the VICE emulator. Funny how these games are no longer fun to play, and the odd thing is I'd rather watch somebody play than play it myself. Man, I've changed.
A number of years ago, I started remaking this game in Flash and I was trying to be as faithful as possible. This is the first time I noticed that this version (most likely PAL) has different values from the NTSC version. In the second (or third phase if you take the short cut) with the ship-to-ship battle, the ranges for these ships are different. Also, the min-max range of your cannon elevation in NTSC is 21.0 - 81.5. In this, you can get below 20 and possibly even lower (to possibly 10).
@pajodato Did you notice that music played faster in the C64 you owned compared to videos of C64 games now? I've heard that music playing at different speeds was an issue of interchanging NTSC/PAL computers with disks. My C64 played the music at about 1.5 times the speed of my emulator and all the videos I see now. The sounds were fine. I still had the C64 well into my later years, so this definitely wasn't a case of my child memory corrupting itself.
My homeschooled boys began with the Vic 20 mid elementary...wrote programs for their own games, learned Basic, etc... and then came the home computer with 20-30mb mem in a tower, monitor and keyboard....AND the "rest is history..." Family fav was "Raid on Fort Knox??? My adult kids are working "computer geeks" today.....thanks Commodore and later Albuquerque High CEC Computer Classes!!
Cool, I haven't seen that game literally since 1985. I couldn't remember the name but I remember the gameplay like it was yesterday.. although I swear the explosions were bigger ;)
[continued] For maximum points you'd just drive your second through second-to last tanks straight into that 1000-point sprite, firing all the way. Use your final tank to destroy Kuhn-Lin for a sweet 52,000 point bonus.
oh Beach-Head. My cousins and I played the HELL out of this. After we all beat it we started playing to see who could rack up the most points. I think we topped out north of 700,000. See the point amounts sprites that pop up when you shoot something? Shooting that sprite again gave you the same amount of points. The 1,000 point sprite for the level-2 tank was the key... you had to hit it at a point where you could maneuver around its shot and the obstacles while firing continuously...
Just to add the memories of another almost 50yo manchild....Like most of my C64 games this was on a collection tape in circuit in my school in the early 80's. No instructions and no clue what to do or how to do it. Hours and hours trying (and failing) at figuring out what to do. Happy times!
loved beach head.....could never kill the forts though....Being about 7 lol....I would shout, "DAD!!! DAD!!!" when i made it past any stages lol coz it was so difficult for me
The game supposedly got rebooted in a 2000 version and appears to be less of a game. Back then, games like this has the ambition of desiring to do more without "knowing better"
I remember a game similar to this but at the end you had to shell a train before it got into a tunnel on the side of a mountain, I'm pretty sure the other levels before it were avoiding depth charges and then guiding a boat or something left and right to avoid something else, can't for the life of me find or remember the name!
This game never worked on my C64, i really wanted it to though. I also had a game called biggles, same thing, never worked. There were different types of C64's around and they did behave differently in some cases.
I remember playing this as a kid and not knowing what a "beachhead" was. My brothers and I thought it was an insult or something. "Oh yeah? Well yer a beach-head!"
I still would love to know what kind of 'ships' the player uses in this game. It is based on the Pacific theatre in WW2, where allied heavy cruisers were almost all 8 inch cruisers. There exists a couple of heavier cruisers called the Alaska class, but they were 12 inch cruisers. 250mm main artillery is a 10 inch cruiser, which didnt exist!
I wonder if there could be the Bristles C64 longplay? However this has to be a very difficult game starting at level 1 through the end of level 6. That game needs unlimited lives and time bonus stops.
my best friend Ted played this for hours in the 1980s
RIP Ted I will never forget you dear freind
I loved playing this game on my commodore 64. Christmas 1983 was epic for me.
I am 43 and these games 30 years ago today I played every day after I got home from school. Hours and hours of fun.
And still playing computer games?
Will we never grow up?
I hope that never. ;)
I'm 44, and I used to play those games when I was a kid too! My dad gave me this game in 1984.
I'm 41 and I loved playing this game as a kid in 1984-85.
you're 47 now ;)
Still playing it today on my PS3 with Vice Emulator
I just discovered they released part 2 today...damn and its awesome!
The sea battle was EPIC. I loved this as a kid
YEAH, it felt like you're actually there with cannons.
I have very fond memories of playing this with my father, funny how you forget the time you spend with people. He was great at this, he loved blowing up the ships.
God Im really miss my Grandfather, He owned a Commodore and introduced me to this game when i was 5 yrs old.
Patriconer My uncle introduced me to these, I will miss him like hell too when he's gone.
Good Gramps, nice one.
Patriconer. Bless him.
5 years old? :-) This game was banned in Germany. It was forbidden to tell kids that game even exists. *rolleyes*
One of the earliest games I owned (on tape) for my C64. Great memories.
We are not getting younger people! :)
Thanks for showing me a game from my childhood.
Wow! This game looks great! The various mini games make the game feel like a long and exiting journey.
Played for hours as a kid on my c64. My dad was in the Navy which made it even more special
One of the best all-around games for the C64. BH2 is also quite good and utilizes a different skillset. "Hey, don't shoot me!"
"MEDIIIIC!!"
@@surfersilver6610 "I'M HIT"
I loved this when I was much much younger. I remember the follow up and was blown away by that as well. My brother and I never got tired of either games. I literally remember all of this like it was yesterday. Great days - still gaming. Never lost my love for it. C64/Amiga my formative years.
Remember when I used to come over to play after school with you guys? Great times
I've played it in the 80s, also the 2nd part, as kid, great gaming times!
I put a lot of hours into this game as a kid...
That was some high drama right there. Had to open the window to let some of the tension out! What a game, played it on the Acorn Electron.
Loved this game back in the day
Bruce Carver was THE soul of the C64 early years.
I think about him sometimes... I played Beach Head on my CBM64 from 1984 till 199...7 !
Remember: he's the creator of Access Software and of all of these famous C64 games that were "Raid over Moscow", the fantastic "Beach Head II" and the famous "Leaderboard" series, (ultra realistic golf). And no-one has perfectly used the SID component like him, with digitalized voices on BH II in 1984 !!!
He passed away at an early age too. :(
I know it's over 6 years but I just wanted to say.... "You can't hurt me!!"
The same group that did the speech for Beach Head II were the same speech synthesis group that did the speech for Impossible Mission. They both used the same software package for the speech.
Im 49 this month. And I remember almost all of these games when they came out.
a classic game for the c64
An absolutely glorious game from an apparent genius
Love Impossible Mission, the entire 'Games' series was a blast - I remember being endlessly frustrated by Beach-Head and Raid over Moscow - thanks for bringing that back up! - a few major oversights though - Family Feud and Jepoardy! were both great, Karateka was a classic, Karnov and Wizards and warlocks were both decent ports. But hands-down the best game of all for the C64 was Space Rogue (1989 Origin). One of the first things I did when I got a PC circa 2000 was download a DOS port that I could play (and finally beat) that game. I remember having the star map up on my wall for years - it was the first game with GTA-style open world options - you could be a pirate, a trader, a bounty hunter, etc. Awesome awsome game to this day.
Played that game so many times
one off the first games i played on the c64,,awesome series!!
Nostalgic vibes. THX fro sharing!!
Thanks for uploading this video.
Brings me back to old memories
I was playing this last night and said to myself, "Why aren't these battleships going down? I knew I had sunk them before?" Now I know why! Great refresher!
Even without nostalgia, what an absolutely wonderfull game this still is. The gameplay in place for each of the game parts is very well realised with risk vs reward on the final tank section especially suprising
Something great will remain just that and here is a fine example
O lawd, the memories. This was the first game I ever played!
das geilste spiel zu der zeit und unterhaltsam ...stunden damit zugebracht danke für das video
Mein Bruder und ich haben dieses Spiel als Kinder stundenlang gespielt. Commodore 64 und die achtziger Jahre
Whoah, great memories. I've never seen it played as smoothly as this. I would spend many summer days trying to beat this game, and it was one of my favorites.
loved this game too
I loved this game back in the day. Its memory just hit me out of the blue for some reason, so I decided to come to TH-cam to see what it was like. I had forgotten so much about it!
One of my favourites- What an amazing game conception
i remember this game as a kid but good never remember the title of it thanks for the upload of this!
I remember me and my brother playing this at my uncles house back in the mid 80's. Good memories.
I loved this game. Got to admit.
I'm 31 now but this game fucking owned me as a kid.
Yeah I'm 33 now and as a kid this game made me rage quit so many times, the problem was every time I would rage quit I had to wait about half an hour for the game to load again to have another go
Damn now I'm 33 and you are 35 bro! What's happening!
Now I'm 36 and you're 34, what the hell is happening to us?, this is starting to get scary.
Another year another comment!
33 here. I played these so much. XD
My favorite game in 1984.
Thanks for bringing back some good memories.
Played this to death 35 years ago. Never finished it, but watching this, must have been so close!
I loved this game, it's probably still on my top 5 "most hours ever spent on game"....
Hours of Hours of Hours ... so simple so great ... and I was young :D
Great job!
You had about 0.001 seconds left before the dictator nailed you at 8:18. Way to go.
Excellent Work, DerSchmu!
I wish I could go back to when I played this all day long.... 1988ish
You can play it again on the VICE emulator. Funny how these games are no longer fun to play, and the odd thing is I'd rather watch somebody play than play it myself. Man, I've changed.
A number of years ago, I started remaking this game in Flash and I was trying to be as faithful as possible. This is the first time I noticed that this version (most likely PAL) has different values from the NTSC version. In the second (or third phase if you take the short cut) with the ship-to-ship battle, the ranges for these ships are different. Also, the min-max range of your cannon elevation in NTSC is 21.0 - 81.5. In this, you can get below 20 and possibly even lower (to possibly 10).
There was a second version. I remember the dregrees required. I used Beach Head II on a PAL C64.
@pajodato Did you notice that music played faster in the C64 you owned compared to videos of C64 games now? I've heard that music playing at different speeds was an issue of interchanging NTSC/PAL computers with disks.
My C64 played the music at about 1.5 times the speed of my emulator and all the videos I see now. The sounds were fine. I still had the C64 well into my later years, so this definitely wasn't a case of my child memory corrupting itself.
My homeschooled boys began with the Vic 20 mid elementary...wrote programs for their own games, learned Basic, etc... and then came the home computer with 20-30mb mem in a tower, monitor and keyboard....AND the "rest is history..." Family fav was "Raid on Fort Knox??? My adult kids are working "computer geeks" today.....thanks Commodore and later Albuquerque High CEC Computer Classes!!
this brings back memories of me watching as a young child while my big brother would play this game. so many good memories and the bond we had
Nice shootin' bro! I remember this game from a long time ago. Lots of fun.
Cool, I haven't seen that game literally since 1985. I couldn't remember the name but I remember the gameplay like it was yesterday.. although I swear the explosions were bigger ;)
My infancy...thanks for the video.
i remember playin this for hours, c64 was big upgrade from my trs80 16k
Thanks for playing through.
The torpedo grotto is so out of this world and its funny but the rest of the missions is more real stuff!
That was awesome!
Fond memories playing this in the 80's amazing game
This game was amazing, from the era where video games where all about exciting game play
I think this came with my c64! that 1st mission was difficult guiding the ships through !
They sold a Million
Damn this memory was in my head all along :OOOO
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For maximum points you'd just drive your second through second-to last tanks straight into that 1000-point sprite, firing all the way. Use your final tank to destroy Kuhn-Lin for a sweet 52,000 point bonus.
oh Beach-Head.
My cousins and I played the HELL out of this. After we all beat it we started playing to see who could rack up the most points. I think we topped out north of 700,000.
See the point amounts sprites that pop up when you shoot something? Shooting that sprite again gave you the same amount of points. The 1,000 point sprite for the level-2 tank was the key... you had to hit it at a point where you could maneuver around its shot and the obstacles while firing continuously...
Loved this game. It’s like 6 games in one!
Just to add the memories of another almost 50yo manchild....Like most of my C64 games this was on a collection tape in circuit in my school in the early 80's. No instructions and no clue what to do or how to do it. Hours and hours trying (and failing) at figuring out what to do. Happy times!
I can't believe it! I remember this... Last time I played it was in 1993. 26 years ago!
Great memories. 👍🏻
played the hell out of this
Ce jeu n'est pas pourri, jeune padawan.
Trop de colère en toi.
Epic!!!
Dope game. Memories!
we use to stay up fri and sat nights playing theses games they were the shit back then
loved beach head.....could never kill the forts though....Being about 7 lol....I would shout, "DAD!!! DAD!!!" when i made it past any stages lol coz it was so difficult for me
Had this on ZX Spectrum ;)
Simply amazing and faszinating. Good old retro games. No need for online registration and playing. Just put the tape/disk in and play.
Memories... sweet memories....
great played
Wow, I remember this game!
last time i played this.. it took be straight to the plans and boats screen..
takes me back to my youth LOL
The game supposedly got rebooted in a 2000 version and appears to be less of a game. Back then, games like this has the ambition of desiring to do more without "knowing better"
The First game I bought for my Commodore 64.
Think about what a games with only 64k.......one sms is bigger!
0:45 Beach Head: The game where your ship gets attacked by Good and Plenty licorice candy.
I loved it!
I remember a game similar to this but at the end you had to shell a train before it got into a tunnel on the side of a mountain, I'm pretty sure the other levels before it were avoiding depth charges and then guiding a boat or something left and right to avoid something else, can't for the life of me find or remember the name!
This game never worked on my C64, i really wanted it to though.
I also had a game called biggles, same thing, never worked.
There were different types of C64's around and they did behave differently in some cases.
Beach head not to be confused with Beachy Head a notorious suicide spot in Sussex 😂
classic...
much fun thank's
That carrier went down quicker than a prostitute.
+Startrooper5555 Did she go down? Faster than a boat anchor!
I thought shooting down the planes and sinking the ships alone would have made a great game!
I remember playing this as a kid and not knowing what a "beachhead" was. My brothers and I thought it was an insult or something. "Oh yeah? Well yer a beach-head!"
Reminds me of harrier attacks in places
I still would love to know what kind of 'ships' the player uses in this game. It is based on the Pacific theatre in WW2, where allied heavy cruisers were almost all 8 inch cruisers. There exists a couple of heavier cruisers called the Alaska class, but they were 12 inch cruisers. 250mm main artillery is a 10 inch cruiser, which didnt exist!
I wonder if there could be the Bristles C64 longplay? However this has to be a very difficult game starting at level 1 through the end of level 6. That game needs unlimited lives and time bonus stops.
Hi. I'm on gamebase v15 and this game (and few others) is not working. It boots and then nothing...what do you use to play it? Thanks
What's with the video cuts? This is supposed to be a longplay, not a foreshortened version.
My father loved this game... I'll forward him the link... I still become nervous at even watching it... would like to play it!!
I used love this game
3:30 That remembers me on the game Soldier One for C64
You can keep shooting the scores after you kill enemies in the last stage, the score keeps adding up... weird bug!