Beat'Em & Eat'Em shares a production house and philosophy with Bachelor Party: it's one of the "adult" cartridges Mystique released in 1982 for the Atari 2600, with a catch-the-falling-objects gameplay the company reused from title to title, barely changing the theme. The blunt premise behind the name sums up well the editorial tone of that brief, controversial stretch of the console's third-party catalog.
Like Bachelor Party, its value today is documentary: it's useful for understanding the free-for-all and lack of filtering that characterized a slice of the Atari 2600 market right before the 1983 crash, rather than for finding a memorable playable experience in it.
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