Beach Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back on the Commodore 64 is a four-stage, tongue-in-cheek war-action game where you alternate between invading and defending forces in a series of arcade-style set pieces. One moment you’re assaulting the dictator’s island with machine guns and mortars, dodging incoming fire as you advance troops up the beach; the next you’re piloting a helicopter to airlift POWs while anti-air guns try to blow you out of the sky, manning a firing squad in a darkly comic execution scene, or storming the dictator’s fortress in a side-view platform shootout. Designed for both one-player and head-to-head two-player play (with digitized speech yelling things like “Medic!”), it mixes simple controls and quick stages into a noisy, over-the-top follow-up to the original Beach Head.