Revisiting Beach Head on the ZX Spectrum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2024
- Revisting Beach-Head on the ZX Spectrum. Released in 1984 by U.S. Gold, I have great memories of playing this game for hours and hours.
The game has so much variety with multiple levels, navigating the sea through the treacherous area on the left of the map, to the bombardment by the ships.
I'd totally forgotten about the last couple of levels, in particular the tanks one and the difficult big turret at the end.
What are you memories of Beach-Head?
Game play recorded using a ZX Spectrum Next KS2.
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Interesting ... I have a tape of this somewhere that I picked up cheap with a few others, to try with a +2 that a friend basically dumped on me at one point. Unfortunately I couldn't ever get the tape deck to work and the Speccy itself died before I could get some cables for an external one, so I've not seen most of the games in action (fixing it is a "one of these days" project...)
This looks like a neat collection of minigames, kind of like what I may have bounced around killing time with on our ST in the early 90s, between pirate disks and magazine covers. Maybe a bit simplistic and not so much longevity once you've finally got through it, but somewhat innovative, probably would have burned an hour or two messing with it once I figured the controls out (and whatever the heck is meant to be going on in that first / interstitial map screen). The cover screenshots didn't really do it much justice, from what I remember of them...
Particularly the kind of 3D take on Gorillaz mixed with Battleship (plus the planes at first) is something I don't think I've seen done before, at least not at all well or with that kind of sophistication (limited as it is). Like there's games where you rotate the view and shoot at enemy ships, but it doesn't have the whole rangefinding thing or the ability to attack airborne enemies. Having them all as silhouettes to avoid colour clash is a nice touch too. And then whac-a-mole mixed with skeeball at the end.
Realy not so easy
You're not wrong! I have always preferred Raid over Moscow. Maybe one for a future video? Thanks for watching.