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Yeah I'd definitely say this is probably in everyones' top 20 list for sure... and if it isn't, then when they've played it through then it definitely should be. Smashing game 😇🕹️👌
This was one of my early games that my father bought after we got our c-64 and our 1541 disk drive. I cannot tell you the numnber of hours I spent playing this and just enjoying the action it presented.
Brilliant memories... you're lucky to have had this on disk though, I would have donated a kidney to have had a disk drive as a kid haha - I think I wasted at least 1 year of my life in loading times alone😇🕹️👌
Such a nostalgic game isn't it... the memories from playing these games the first time around are what spur me on to continue. Sharing the love for these great games 😇🕹️👌
This is the game I steamrolled on my c64. Another one of those games were it's all about staying focused and concentrated. The minigames themselves aren't hard but there's just the right amount of pressure put on you to make it challenging, first with the bombs and torpedoes and later with that slowly rotating intimidating cannon (one of the most memorable moments from my childhood). I got so good at this game. I managed to get to the beach time and time again without taking any losses and for the longest time I tried to beat the final level with just one tank. I got close, and I think it's possible, but I never managed it.
Another game me & my brother would play constantly when we first got our Commodore 64, I thought this was grahically superb! Rose tinted glasses maybe, but for it's day this was one of the best games around. Superb memories getting through the challenges together and then to finally defeat the end boss was a fist bump eureka moment! Good times 😇🕹️👌
Oh HELL yes!! One of the games (along with Ultima III) that made me decide at age 11 to save up for 2 years and buy my C64 (thankfully Dad sprung for the 1541) and it and Beach Head II (and Raid over Moscow) are among my all time favourite C64 games. Infact I just recently threw all 3 Carver Classics onto my C64 mini for some nostalgiac gunnery. Great video series, time to see what else you have covered that I loved!
Fantastic isn't it. Yeah there's a whole load up there on the playlists by either year or genre, hopefully there's a few more that unlock some good nostalgic memories 😇🕹👌
I remember having to pass the joystick over to my brother at certain parts in the game if I couldnt get through it myself, mind you in 1983 I was onyl 4 years old haha... those are some of the greatest memories ever 😇🕹️👌
Already have my good friend, if you do a quick search on the channel they're all up there. Might revisit Beach Head II at some stage though as it's an older video 😇🕹️👌
This is definitely one of the most geniously designed games on the C64. Even more impressive that it came only one year after it was released! (Many stinker games came out those first 2 or 3 years.) Each level is perfect for challenging you in different ways and, as you say, your earlier decisions can have a large bearing on your success later on. "Raid Over Moscow" is also excellent. One of the best sequels ever for the C64. I'll never forget the "Hey, don't shoot me!" when you accidentally (or intentionally!) shoot one of your own guys.
Access Software games will always be legendary - due to the depth of each of then. All class games in their own right. Even Leaderboard golf was superb 🏌♂️😇🕹👌
Now you're talking. I will always remember how the surviving enemy aircraft made a (then) convincing drone when they pulled away. My Dad could almost complete it, but he always got hammered by that ruddy cannon. All in all, a brilliant game, and Beach Head II, was just as good, if not, better.
I think I'd panic when I got to the cannon at the end as a kid... it was hard enough getting a tank through successfully in the first place, but knowing I had literally 10 seconds to get some shots off, used to cause me to fail. Haha fantastic nostalgia 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer The main problem with the tank section was the awful collision detection. It's as if they had a blinding box of the entire graphics tile intersecting with a😅 massive box around your tank. Similar to the awful collision detection in Manic Miner. Still a classic game and that made it much tougher to complete, but one I remember fondly! Bruce Carver really put out quality games and so early in the C64 lifetime!
I love these Commodore 64 games... they felt so 'epic' back in the day... but now I try and speedrun them just to get to the good bits, like the cannon at the end. Still just as addictive now as it was 40+ years ago. Fantastic programming 😇🕹️👌
This is one of my favorites! I'm a big fan of the Beach Head games and Raid Over Moscow. And I agree with you at 3:18! I always thought it looked like a church, too!
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer Yeah. I remember at first thinking I should probably protect it. Then I realized it's a target I have to hit. It dawned on me later that it isn't supposed to be a church... it just looked like one considering how it was drawn at that angle. LOL
C64 had a plethora of naval games. Kinda understandable, they did not require much graphics, only sea, sky and silhouettes of the ships. Add some static graphics for the radar and their you go. Today, they are almost gone, I only know about World of Warships 😁
Thats a good point. I suppose thats why all of the first games that were released were 'space' games, probably due to 'burn-in' on monitors but also as they didn't take much memory. It was probably the same for the naval games... just turn everything blue and have a different shade for the sky haha. It certainly worked though back in the 80s 😇🕹️👌
Yeah I'll admit, I had a handful of 'Turbo Load' cassettes that my brother procured from the schoolyard... we had tons of games as a kid. Hence having a lot of nostalgia for a lot of games 😇🕹️👌
I had this on cassette and enjoyed it despite the slow loading but got the disk version later. The other game I remember playing that was just like this was called Soldier One. It was a cheaper Beach Head clone. A lot of people didn't like that one but I enjoyed it as well.
Ahh yes I remember Soldier One... many would have believed it was a USA only release, however - contrary to its name, developers 'American Action' was actually a software publisher from southern Sweden haha. Crazy huh 😇🕹️👌
oh yes a remarkably good game this with potential for absolutely oodles of score and varied gameplay that in all scenarios works well. And you can even increase the difficulty. Access really were exceptionally good at games. It has what was possibly an oversight regarding the scores left over on the tank battlefield that you can shoot as many times for additional score as you can hit. They only stay up for so long so you have to be quite good at this and providing you don't smash your tank into them, you can get very close enough that it gives you 10x or more depending how suicidal you are. Oh such a great game and the sequel is similarly clever in a different way, as is Raid over Moscow which can be quite tense on that later robot stage. Very replayable games regards to scoring and I often play them. One of the very best developers for the C64 concerning these three games I did play oh yes and the marvelous Leaderboard as well Lots of great info here. I too remember the dazzling graphics and sound back then and the dread of the cannonball heading straight towards my face which was actually somewhat terrifying back then
I found that exploit with the score, but forgot all about mentioning it in the video - so good shout there. I agree with you too, Access had a fantastic team of developers... I also notice they love the use of 'Yellow' colouring in the majority of their games! 😇🕹️👌
Glad you enjoyed it - Beach Head is a superb game... even for 1983, it had everything, the action, the strategy elements, the need for composure when it matters. Legendary C64 game 😇🕹️👌
Massive praise to the developers 'Access Software' for constantly making games that had multiple layers and several 'mini-games' within games... loved that concept 😇🕹️👌
Haha, yeah - I work at it every night of the week, as my wife goes to bed early with work... so I'm loving reminiscing with all these fantastic games. Its a long road, but I got plenty of gas in the tank 😇🕹️👌
Great game, felt so epic playing thos as a kid. Seems a lot shorter of a game now, but my expectations weren't set very high back in the early 80s and I loved every minute of this game. Still a classic though 😇🕹👌
I always wished for something like this but more of a "real" naval wargame where you could meaningfully maneuver from island to island rather than just making a binary choice of which way to go. Something like Final Legacy but that was on the Atari 8-bit.
I missed out on the Atari era, as the ZX Spectrum & C64 were the dominant machines here in the UK. But I'll definitely give that one a go now I can play the games on emulator 😇🕹👌
Was an epic game for 83'... the mini-game playstyle kepy us hooked as each level was a different gaming style. Brilliant how the programmers at Access Software did this multiple times with their games 😇🕹️👌
Did you prefer Beach Head or Beach Head II? 😇🕹👌
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Ah indeed a classic. Great little multi games. Fun and frustration indeed. Top 20 must have games. Great video.
Yeah I'd definitely say this is probably in everyones' top 20 list for sure... and if it isn't, then when they've played it through then it definitely should be. Smashing game 😇🕹️👌
A good follow up to this video would be Silent Service!
I made it all the way to Fleet Admiral.
Thats a game I've got on the list of ones to do 'soon' - a fantastic sim 😇🕹️👌
This was one of my early games that my father bought after we got our c-64 and our 1541 disk drive. I cannot tell you the numnber of hours I spent playing this and just enjoying the action it presented.
Brilliant memories... you're lucky to have had this on disk though, I would have donated a kidney to have had a disk drive as a kid haha - I think I wasted at least 1 year of my life in loading times alone😇🕹️👌
Yeah, I had it on Cassette!
Disc owners dream game
So many happy memories of playing this game and its excellent sequel. As you said in the video, "Pure nostalgia".
Such a nostalgic game isn't it... the memories from playing these games the first time around are what spur me on to continue. Sharing the love for these great games 😇🕹️👌
Keep it up you're doing a great job of it. 👍@@CheekyCommodoreGamer
This is the game I steamrolled on my c64. Another one of those games were it's all about staying focused and concentrated. The minigames themselves aren't hard but there's just the right amount of pressure put on you to make it challenging, first with the bombs and torpedoes and later with that slowly rotating intimidating cannon (one of the most memorable moments from my childhood). I got so good at this game. I managed to get to the beach time and time again without taking any losses and for the longest time I tried to beat the final level with just one tank. I got close, and I think it's possible, but I never managed it.
Another game me & my brother would play constantly when we first got our Commodore 64, I thought this was grahically superb! Rose tinted glasses maybe, but for it's day this was one of the best games around. Superb memories getting through the challenges together and then to finally defeat the end boss was a fist bump eureka moment! Good times 😇🕹️👌
A great game, followed-up by a fantastic one!
Absolutely, the addition of speech in the sequel was fantastic for it's day 😇🕹️👌
An absolute classic and Raid Over Moscow and Beach Head 2 were even better.
All fantastic games, all of which are up on the channel too 😇🕹️👌
My buddy and I played endless games of this, and 2 player BH2! I true classic!
Fantastic memories and I cant say I blame you both as Beach Head 1 & 2 will forever go down as C64 classics 😇🕹️👌
Oh HELL yes!! One of the games (along with Ultima III) that made me decide at age 11 to save up for 2 years and buy my C64 (thankfully Dad sprung for the 1541) and it and Beach Head II (and Raid over Moscow) are among my all time favourite C64 games. Infact I just recently threw all 3 Carver Classics onto my C64 mini for some nostalgiac gunnery. Great video series, time to see what else you have covered that I loved!
Fantastic isn't it. Yeah there's a whole load up there on the playlists by either year or genre, hopefully there's a few more that unlock some good nostalgic memories 😇🕹👌
I think this was among my first batch of floppy disks I copied from a friend. Very nostalgic! Was way too hard for my skill back then.
I remember having to pass the joystick over to my brother at certain parts in the game if I couldnt get through it myself, mind you in 1983 I was onyl 4 years old haha... those are some of the greatest memories ever 😇🕹️👌
One thing to always remember when destroying an enemy bunker in a real conflict is that a raised white flag waving about is just another target.
I loved Beach Head, Beach Head II, and Raid Over Moscow. I hope you cover them all.
Already have my good friend, if you do a quick search on the channel they're all up there. Might revisit Beach Head II at some stage though as it's an older video 😇🕹️👌
This is definitely one of the most geniously designed games on the C64. Even more impressive that it came only one year after it was released! (Many stinker games came out those first 2 or 3 years.) Each level is perfect for challenging you in different ways and, as you say, your earlier decisions can have a large bearing on your success later on. "Raid Over Moscow" is also excellent. One of the best sequels ever for the C64. I'll never forget the "Hey, don't shoot me!" when you accidentally (or intentionally!) shoot one of your own guys.
Access Software games will always be legendary - due to the depth of each of then. All class games in their own right. Even Leaderboard golf was superb 🏌♂️😇🕹👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamerYep! Epyx, Electronic Arts and Accolade were also known for quality.
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Good man - such a great title, am sure there are many who have loads of love for this game. And if they don't... then they should haha 😇🕹️👌
Now you're talking. I will always remember how the surviving enemy aircraft made a (then) convincing drone when they pulled away. My Dad could almost complete it, but he always got hammered by that ruddy cannon. All in all, a brilliant game, and Beach Head II, was just as good, if not, better.
I think I'd panic when I got to the cannon at the end as a kid... it was hard enough getting a tank through successfully in the first place, but knowing I had literally 10 seconds to get some shots off, used to cause me to fail. Haha fantastic nostalgia 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer The main problem with the tank section was the awful collision detection. It's as if they had a blinding box of the entire graphics tile intersecting with a😅 massive box around your tank. Similar to the awful collision detection in Manic Miner. Still a classic game and that made it much tougher to complete, but one I remember fondly! Bruce Carver really put out quality games and so early in the C64 lifetime!
"Mediiiiic!" :^D Ah, the memories...
Ahh yes, Beach-Head & Beach-Head II (with the speech) will always go down as C64 classics 😇🕹️👌
Complete classic and still fun to play and complete today!
I love these Commodore 64 games... they felt so 'epic' back in the day... but now I try and speedrun them just to get to the good bits, like the cannon at the end. Still just as addictive now as it was 40+ years ago. Fantastic programming 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer Yep, the Carvers were magicians of the day for sure.
I played this a lot but don’t recall getting to the end very often.
Tough game, was brutal with the amount if time you had to aim at the targets at the end so needed yo ensure you had at least 4 or 5 tanks minimum 😇🕹👌
This is one of my favorites! I'm a big fan of the Beach Head games and Raid Over Moscow. And I agree with you at 3:18! I always thought it looked like a church, too!
There was a slight moment of guilt bombing what clerly looks like a church, haha 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer Yeah. I remember at first thinking I should probably protect it. Then I realized it's a target I have to hit. It dawned on me later that it isn't supposed to be a church... it just looked like one considering how it was drawn at that angle. LOL
C64 had a plethora of naval games. Kinda understandable, they did not require much graphics, only sea, sky and silhouettes of the ships. Add some static graphics for the radar and their you go. Today, they are almost gone, I only know about World of Warships 😁
Thats a good point. I suppose thats why all of the first games that were released were 'space' games, probably due to 'burn-in' on monitors but also as they didn't take much memory. It was probably the same for the naval games... just turn everything blue and have a different shade for the sky haha. It certainly worked though back in the 80s 😇🕹️👌
This is One of my first games for C64 from not original cassette
Yeah I'll admit, I had a handful of 'Turbo Load' cassettes that my brother procured from the schoolyard... we had tons of games as a kid. Hence having a lot of nostalgia for a lot of games 😇🕹️👌
Another game where I spent many hours, thinking I was in the Normandy landing.😅.. Never won against the final gun...
I had this on cassette and enjoyed it despite the slow loading but got the disk version later. The other game I remember playing that was just like this was called Soldier One. It was a cheaper Beach Head clone. A lot of people didn't like that one but I enjoyed it as well.
Ahh yes I remember Soldier One... many would have believed it was a USA only release, however - contrary to its name, developers 'American Action' was actually a software publisher from southern Sweden haha. Crazy huh 😇🕹️👌
oh yes a remarkably good game this with potential for absolutely oodles of score and varied gameplay that in all scenarios works well. And you can even increase the difficulty. Access really were exceptionally good at games. It has what was possibly an oversight regarding the scores left over on the tank battlefield that you can shoot as many times for additional score as you can hit. They only stay up for so long so you have to be quite good at this and providing you don't smash your tank into them, you can get very close enough that it gives you 10x or more depending how suicidal you are. Oh such a great game and the sequel is similarly clever in a different way, as is Raid over Moscow which can be quite tense on that later robot stage. Very replayable games regards to scoring and I often play them. One of the very best developers for the C64 concerning these three games I did play
oh yes and the marvelous Leaderboard as well
Lots of great info here. I too remember the dazzling graphics and sound back then and the dread of the cannonball heading straight towards my face which was actually somewhat terrifying back then
I found that exploit with the score, but forgot all about mentioning it in the video - so good shout there. I agree with you too, Access had a fantastic team of developers... I also notice they love the use of 'Yellow' colouring in the majority of their games! 😇🕹️👌
interesting about the yellow@@CheekyCommodoreGamer
Great video about a fine game, mate!
Glad you enjoyed it - Beach Head is a superb game... even for 1983, it had everything, the action, the strategy elements, the need for composure when it matters. Legendary C64 game 😇🕹️👌
first multi gameplay type game I played , great game
Massive praise to the developers 'Access Software' for constantly making games that had multiple layers and several 'mini-games' within games... loved that concept 😇🕹️👌
by the way ,do you know if the ships have the same distance every time when you try to sink them? or is it random every game?@@CheekyCommodoreGamer
Am pretty sure they're always randomised 😇🕹️👌
I can keep it up with the Commodore, but I am having a hard time keeping up with your frequent, good quality videos.
Haha, yeah - I work at it every night of the week, as my wife goes to bed early with work... so I'm loving reminiscing with all these fantastic games. Its a long road, but I got plenty of gas in the tank 😇🕹️👌
Great and very original game.
Great game, felt so epic playing thos as a kid. Seems a lot shorter of a game now, but my expectations weren't set very high back in the early 80s and I loved every minute of this game. Still a classic though 😇🕹👌
I really enjoy your videos. Just found your channel recently.
Ahh cool, glad you found the channel. Plenty of nostalgic memories to rediscover 😇🕹👌
Thisis my all time fave aling with Mission to Mscow
Brilliant games aren't they - yeah Raid Over Moscow is also on the channel, cracking games 😇🕹️👌
Classic
Every level within the game had a new surprise... an awesome game for sure 😇🕹️👌
I always wished for something like this but more of a "real" naval wargame where you could meaningfully maneuver from island to island rather than just making a binary choice of which way to go.
Something like Final Legacy but that was on the Atari 8-bit.
I missed out on the Atari era, as the ZX Spectrum & C64 were the dominant machines here in the UK. But I'll definitely give that one a go now I can play the games on emulator 😇🕹👌
one of my fave c64 games many good memory's of this game !
Was an epic game for 83'... the mini-game playstyle kepy us hooked as each level was a different gaming style. Brilliant how the programmers at Access Software did this multiple times with their games 😇🕹️👌
Raid over Moscow? Harrumph could never get out of the bloody hangar.
You should watch the video on the channel. Explains in full how to escape the hangar at the beginning of the game 😁🕹👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer thanks but even with advice and being shown exactly what to do from my mates I still kept crashing the damn thing.