Atari 8-bit - Interactive Software - 1983

Beat the Beatles

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Genre: Brain - Trivia / Quiz
Year: 1983
Language: Machine Language
Publisher: Interactive Software
Controls: Keyboard
Developer: Interactive Software
Players: 1
Country
Programmer(s): [unknown]
License: Commercial
Graphic Artist(s): [n/a]
Medium
Sound: [n/a]
Rarity: 1010
Cover Artist(s): [unknown]
Serial: -
Dump: Download

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Version 1.1.

Missing original tape and disk images!

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VOTES / STATISTICS

Rating5.5/10

Hits: 6,032
Downloads: 1,497
Votes: 11

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COMMENTS (3)

RBL31 May 2021
I'm the programmer of Beat the Beatles. Thanks for archiving it here. I have the original disks if anyone wants to make copies of them. Not sure if they're readable in 2021 but will to try. Thanks again for this site.
eppy200024 Jul 2018
After 30+ years, I finally decided to play the whole thing through instead of piecemeal. Even as a fairly knowledgeable Beatles fan, I did find some of the questions/clues a little tricky at times due to the way they're phrased/structured. Fortunately, with an emulator you can save your progress as you go along because if you need a hint, you won't necessarily get one (the game responds with a "Sorry"). However, the good thing is that it's a random thing and you can try again after you reload your saved progress. The game does have flaws. One, all the questions are asked in the same exact order every time, whether if you play all 100 from beginning to end, or by category! There's also a couple of spelling errors on the answers end that almost makes it difficult to get a perfect score. Gibraltar is misspelled as "Gibralter" for the "Two Virgins wedding" question. That one had me stumped even though I had the right answer, all because of the misspelling! The other is for "The Plastic Lady" question. The answer, of course, is "Polythene Pam." However, the game says the answer has two words and fifteen letters. Despite my attempt to misspell the variants of Polythene (and its original "polyethylene" spelling), I can't seem to get the "right" answer. So I'm stuck at 9,900 points out of possible 10,000.
eppy200010 Oct 2007
A trivia game only for true Beatles fans. Despite an appealing sounding title, it's an all text game. It's not like on "Jeopardy!" when you can simply throw in just the last name and be expected to get points. And spelling counts, too! If there had been graphics or a music portion in which you'd try to guess the songs, the game would probably be more entertaining. Maybe it was too expensive to use the band's likeness.