C64 Longplay - Beach Head (HQ)

Video from the C64 game "Beach Head"
The video is downloadable at
www.archive.org/details/C64Vid...

[@Jeffybonbon]

my best friend Ted played this for hours in the 1980s RIP Ted I will never forget you dear freind

[@T8HPO]

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.

[@cintulator2]

And still playing computer games? Will we never grow up? I hope that never. ;)

[@Jeff-xy7fv]

I'm 44, and I used to play those games when I was a kid too! My dad gave me this game in 1984.

[@beeman2075]

I'm 41 and I loved playing this game as a kid in 1984-85.

[@MephProduction]

you're 47 now ;)

[@markhamilton3215]

Still playing it today on my PS3 with Vice Emulator I just discovered they released part 2 today...damn and its awesome!

[@carlweston4808]

I loved playing this game on my commodore 64. Christmas 1983 was epic for me.

[@FinsaneLorist]

The sea battle was EPIC. I loved this as a kid

[@KretinoSantino]

YEAH, it felt like you're actually there with cannons.

[@bellycuda]

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.

[@Patriconer]

God Im really miss my Grandfather, He owned a Commodore and introduced me to this game when i was 5 yrs old.

[@Tenraiden]

Patriconer My uncle introduced me to these, I will miss him like hell too when he's gone.

[@huxleypig69]

Good Gramps, nice one.

[@bertvdlast]

Patriconer. Bless him.

[@leomarker774]

5 years old? :-) This game was banned in Germany. It was forbidden to tell kids that game even exists. *rolleyes*

[@neilarcher2551]

One of the earliest games I owned (on tape) for my C64. Great memories.

[@WexMajor82]

We are not getting younger people! :) Thanks for showing me a game from my childhood.

[@OurMagicalNature]

Wow! This game looks great! The various mini games make the game feel like a long and exiting journey.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

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!"

[@surfersilver6610]

"MEDIIIIC!!"

[@rikk319]

@@surfersilver6610 "I'M HIT"

[@jokir67]

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.

[@Justinicus24]

Remember when I used to come over to play after school with you guys? Great times

[@tolopo99]

Played for hours as a kid on my c64. My dad was in the Navy which made it even more special

[@emilereynaud]

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 !!!

[@OldCityBob]

He passed away at an early age too. :(

[@johnkerkalis6310]

I know it's over 6 years but I just wanted to say.... "You can't hurt me!!"

[@ACanOfBakedBeans]

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.

[@RaptureMusicOfficial]

I've played it in the 80s, also the 2nd part, as kid, great gaming times!

das geilste spiel zu der zeit und unterhaltsam ...stunden damit zugebracht danke für das video

[@WorldwideWyatt]

Mein Bruder und ich haben dieses Spiel als Kinder stundenlang gespielt. Commodore 64 und die achtziger Jahre

[@Jazzmaster71]

Im 49 this month. And I remember almost all of these games when they came out.

[@pappachook]

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.

[@Cyko..]

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!

[@LastMumzy]

I put a lot of hours into this game as a kid...

[@pedros8889]

a classic game for the c64

[@h3akalee]

I'm 31 now but this game fucking owned me as a kid.

[@clarenceboddicker6679]

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

[@h3akalee]

Damn now I'm 33 and you are 35 bro! What's happening!

[@clarenceboddicker6679]

Now I'm 36 and you're 34, what the hell is happening to us?, this is starting to get scary.

[@h3akalee]

Another year another comment!

[@RpTheHotrod]

33 here. I played these so much. XD

[@Starredmediasoft]

Thanks for uploading this video. Brings me back to old memories

[@777triathlete]

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 KZbin to see what it was like. I had forgotten so much about it!

[@basehead617]

An absolutely glorious game from an apparent genius

[@Sushi-Me]

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.

[@Adropacrich2]

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

[@darkdragon99]

Loved this game back in the day

[@najbjergpoulsen]

one off the first games i played on the c64,,awesome series!!

[@Moshmaschine]

O lawd, the memories. This was the first game I ever played!

[@AsianSignGuyCena]

i remember this game as a kid but good never remember the title of it thanks for the upload of this!

[@gianni7415]

Played that game so many times

[@cartersadventures9677]

I remember me and my brother playing this at my uncles house back in the mid 80's. Good memories.

[@ShamanWS6]

I loved this game. Got to admit.

[@boek8328]

I loved this game, it's probably still on my top 5 "most hours ever spent on game"....

[@Njal55]

Played this to death 35 years ago. Never finished it, but watching this, must have been so close!

[@jonathynblythe8096]

You had about 0.001 seconds left before the dictator nailed you at 8:18. Way to go.

[@VulpeRenard]

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).

[@pajodato5339]

There was a second version. I remember the dregrees required. I used Beach Head II on a PAL C64.

[@VulpeRenard]

​ @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.

[@Harrysound]

I wish I could go back to when I played this all day long.... 1988ish

[@richardwicks4190]

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.

[@albertomiyake2541]

One of my favourites- What an amazing game conception

[@TeroPajunen]

Nostalgic vibes. THX fro sharing!!

[@parkerfamily24871213]

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.

[@Wampaa]

Thanks for bringing back some good memories.

[@BAM-jc7uy]

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!!

[@Hells_Gate]

loved this game too

[@AsianSignGuyCena]

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

[@1matthiasmnich]

My favorite game in 1984.

[@jq747]

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 ;)

[@StormShadow1500]

Excellent Work, DerSchmu!

[@BishopJW]

Hours of Hours of Hours ... so simple so great ... and I was young :D Great job!

[@visioneerone]

[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.

[@solarvoodoo3168]

i remember playin this for hours, c64 was big upgrade from my trs80 16k

[@juanaltredo2974]

This game was amazing, from the era where video games where all about exciting game play

[@ThanksIfYourReadIt]

Damn this memory was in my head all along :OOOO

[@visioneerone]

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...

[@andreacorsetti814]

My infancy...thanks for the video.

[@lighthouse44]

Nice shootin' bro! I remember this game from a long time ago. Lots of fun.

[@6anatolyy4]

Thanks for playing through.

[@jamesmaybrick2001]

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!

[@jjamo5]

Fond memories playing this in the 80's amazing game

[@rajwvilla]

I think this came with my c64! that 1st mission was difficult guiding the ships through !

[@GG-qo4qo]

They sold a Million

[@kzbxvz]

The torpedo grotto is so out of this world and its funny but the rest of the missions is more real stuff!

[@trashman4444]

played the hell out of this

[@baco82]

I can't believe it! I remember this... Last time I played it was in 1993. 26 years ago!

[@ep1phany62]

Loved this game. It’s like 6 games in one!

[@FastChessClub]

Im 38 years old now and I missed my dad and playing with him

[@WolfieTed]

That was awesome!

[@emilereynaud]

Ce jeu n'est pas pourri, jeune padawan. Trop de colère en toi.

[@thegamesninja3119]

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"

[@alkohallick2901]

Great memories. 👍🏻

[@zanfozanfani]

Think about what a games with only 64k.......one sms is bigger!

[@badboytwig]

takes me back to my youth LOL

[@benjitatts5169]

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

[@tonysturtevant3583]

we use to stay up fri and sat nights playing theses games they were the shit back then

[@thedarksideoftheforce6658]

Dope game. Memories!

[@leroyrs]

Simply amazing and faszinating. Good old retro games. No need for online registration and playing. Just put the tape/disk in and play.

[@NarLiv]

Wow, I remember this game!

[@Bikinianer]

Epic!!!

[@Hardcorakias]

Had this on ZX Spectrum ;)

[@FunkMasterJunk]

Memories... sweet memories....

[@syferdet]

0:45 Beach Head: The game where your ship gets attacked by Good and Plenty licorice candy.

[@jimholmes2555]

The First game I bought for my Commodore 64.

[@fedepede04]

great played

[@Startrooper5555]

That carrier went down quicker than a prostitute.

[@dbridger620]

+Startrooper5555 Did she go down? Faster than a boat anchor!

[@Fastbikkel]

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.

[@SonicBoomC98]

this was my game

[@herknorth8691]

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!"

[@canuck_gamer3359]

I thought shooting down the planes and sinking the ships alone would have made a great game!

[@MephProduction]

last time i played this.. it took be straight to the plans and boats screen..

[@lucaschapman2188]

Beach head not to be confused with Beachy Head a notorious suicide spot in Sussex 😂

[@Bluewater222]

I loved it!

[@limpjaffacake]

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!

[@4fingas69]

classic...

[@infinitecanadian]

What's with the video cuts? This is supposed to be a longplay, not a foreshortened version.

[@agusmom]

My father loved this game... I'll forward him the link... I still become nervous at even watching it... would like to play it!!

[@Simon0]

i just have a regular head rather than a beach head.

[@jamesavery3559]

much fun thank's

[@merisonola]

Wow... I played this game SO many times. Remember when you could just copy your friends games on to your own floppy disk? Play for free. 😂

[@jsrodman]

Pretty sure we can still do this, we just don't so much.

[@Markboyy1984]

My dad’s mate his son had a Commodore 64 and he had hundreds of games, after my dad brought me a Commodore 64 in 1987 his dad offered to copy a heap of games free of charge only thing we needed to do was buy the blank floppy disks

[@merisonola]

@@Markboyy1984 Those were great times. I used to buy boxes of blank disks and copy everything i could. Lol

[@stefanojep3114]

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

[@anatron4]

I rememeber this game.It was fucking hard but epic!:-)

[@ShockRockRecords]

Back i the days they had put that game on an ban list, only adults over 18 were allowed to buy it over here in Germany!