@@alphatrion100 the nerd was too tough, anyway. For example, he said that gun frontier and gekirindan are nothing but generic shoot em up with a gimmick, but they are great games. Same with puchi carat and bust a move/puzzle bobble
I have epilepsy, but fun fact, only a small amount of people with epilepsy get triggered by strobes and flashing colours... The fact that he grouped all people with epilepsy into one group, and said "Not showing it" is very insulting.
You know why some players of this game get easily depleted of bullets? They waste their bullets on that passing 10-wheeler truck (1:48 / 11:11) which wasn't included on their enemies list instead of shooting war tanks & helicopters. Happily he let the last 10-wheeler truck to pass by (14:40)🚛🚛🚛
I have epilepsy, but fun fact, only a small amount of people with epilepsy get triggered by strobes and flashing colours... The fact that he grouped all people with epilepsy into one group, and said "Not showing it" is very insulting.
@@The_Totes_Adorbs He did no such thing, go rewatch it. He never mentioned epilepsy, that was all you. AVGN just said "It flashes in way it's so horrible, it can possibly cause seizures."
"Uwah! Uwah!" I remember seeing this game at the laundromat over 20 years ago. I would get bored waiting for my mom to finish the clothes so I'd play this game awhile. Good times!
Gas station in town when my sister and I were kids. Funny-- my mom was okay with this, but we weren't allowed to play Double Dragon because of the intro where the girl gets punched.
@@Skycrusher Yup. Which considering DD ended with brothers fighting to the death-- my sister and I did not need further inspiration when it comes to wringing each other's necks.
AVGN: I'm not gonna show you footage of this game because it might cause seizures. Everyone who watched his Taito Legends episode: Fine, I'll do it myself.
Jeremy Bridges i often refrain from using them save for when there's more than 1 vehicle in my line of sight, but they're very dangerous to use in the prison camp and airport stages when the hostages appear (the rocket's blast radius is wide enough to kill them even if they're not hit directly by them)
@@figment1988 I just can't resists throwing a rocket grenade especially when an APC rides below a chopper. The last boss (HAVOC) gets a full load of grenades from me, always. I really don't care, bout prisoners, since it's a game after all.
@@raulferro3998 It's more than game. It's an exact realization of war in the jungle. You saw the girl running in the bikini right? You know the one he shot twice. Lol
Me too and compare in 1987 with Operation Wolf arcade and Operation thunderbolt coin up 1989 with BATTLEFIELD 5 32 or 30 years after. Imagine in 2051 and compare BF5 with future game war, kakakakakakaak
This is the first gun game I ever saw as a child. I played it briefly in a pizza restaurant when I was about six or seven. The fact that the Uzi actually had recoil was the most awesome thing I had ever seen at that age.
I love how he randomly kills villagers. Like, not wantonly killing them all, he just picks particular ones and is like "this one. This one must die. The others may live, but this one..."
@@alstound you kill civilians, that’s bad for your service, your country…AND government!!! You do that at will they can execute you for crimes of war against humanity, off record if it’s unofficial!
One of my fave arcade games of all time. Holding that Uzi and blasting on screen badies just felt amazing. If I remember right the gun had vibration recoil right?
It was the cadence that really threw me off. "Sorry, but you are finished................................... here." That's so weird why'd they do it like that? This is the kind of crap I've thought about on and off since I was a kid.
Let me put it this way: "Since you have no ammunition left, you have no choice but to join the hostages!" "NO! I WON'T JOIN THE HOSTAGES! THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!" "You must join the hostages! YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL!!!! THAT IS AN ORDER! YOU FUCKING MUST!!!!!" "BUT I TOLD YA, I WILL NEVER JOIN THE HOSTAGES!!! NEVER!!!!!!!" "THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE!!! JOIN THE HOSTAGES NOW OR BE DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "FINE!!!!!!!! ENEMIES, TAKE HIM AWAY!!!!!!!!!!" "LET GO OF ME, YA MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!" (Commando angrily snaps) "YES!!!!! NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL BEING A REAL PRO!!!!!!! I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN MY MISSION!!!!! I WILL HAVE MANY MORE MISSIONS AGAIN!!!!!!!"
Aw man this really hit the nostalgia feels for me...way way back in the early 90's we actually had this game in the little lineup of games we owned at our store... My pops used to play this and now that he's passed it has much more nostalgia for me
Freeing the village healed your damage, raiding the ammo-dump actually got your extra ammo. To this day I recall how impressed I was with what I would later refer to as "immersion".
awesome arcade game, although I was poor and could never afford it, I did enjoy squeezing the trigger while the demo played and I pretended to play it, I mean I did scrounge up a quarter from the couch cushion once but I spent that on a slap bracelet, I was just a poor barefoot kid, good ole days, freedom!
I remember myself in Moscow train station watching someone playing this arcade. At that time I was a pupil (not a student) of a Secondary School. Good memories.
Impressive play through. This arcade game had a mounted Uzi and ate my allowance every week at the pizza shop after school. It was called Operations Wolf because it wolfed your quarters, and it was kickass.
Yes, I'm here after watching the recent AVGN episode! But, to be honest, I never ever had any problems with the white screen flashes everytime you shoot the gun. Heck, I didn't even notice or even mind when I first played this on Taito Legends! Anyway, despite the screen-flashes, which I don't mind at all, this game is a an absolute classic that's really fun to play! I loved playing this game and I still do love playing it today! Great game! ^^ Operation initiated! Rescue hostages!
I remember being 6 or 7 years old and playing this at the holiday camp. Probably didn't even have credits half the night but just sat waving the gun about haha
Great game .... I remember it at the time of the 80s ... Sigh! How many memories ... In the video game room, there was always a queue to play Operation Wolf. The novelty was that submachine gun instead of normal controllers. Too bad that, after having done all the first route to the airport, the next phase was identical to the first ... only that it was terribly more difficult. I remember that someone rarely managed to finish the second series of missions. As I saw in the video, invariably, in the second stage, it ended with the mission of the jungle, which is really unthinkable, with a really exaggerated level. However, in the versions that came out with "MAME" for personal computers, I sometimes managed to keep going, because, at the end of the first mission of the second series, I always left a single helicopter or armored car, without eliminating it even if it hit me . I waited for the bonuses to come out and often, as a bonus, gave me the drink that worked as a health potion. If I was particularly lucky, several of these potions came out, and with my health restored I faced the jungle scenario better. Unfortunately the trick was not always successful, the drinks did not come out and I was forced to eliminate the helicopter or the armored car without having had any bonus ...
Videogame logic: - Hostage: "Help!".. reaches end of screen: (Still in danger) "Thank you!" - Shoot glass.. glass catches bullet - Plane slower than foot-soldier.. takes off - Plane takes more than 30 seconds on runway to take off.. "sucessfull getaway" - Kill hundreds of enemies in war.. President: "Splendid. You are a real pro." - Win the war.. Insert coin to restart exact same war - "The hostages are all dead".. "You must join the hostages" - Become a hostage.. President: "You failed your mission. We won't ask you again"
In other words: 1. Successful getaway. Success in freeing 5 hostages! SPLENDID! YOU ARE A REAL PRO! 2. Since you have no ammunition left, you must join the prisoners. 3. You've sustained a lethal injury. Sorry but you are finished here. 4. All the hostages are dead. "YOU FAILED IN YOUR MISSION! WE WON'T ASK YOU AGAIN!"
@@danalong1237That's ONLY if you clear the prison camp or the airport scene without rescuing any hostages. If you rescue one hostage, the president will say "NOT VERY SATISFACTORY BUT YOU CAN HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE". If you rescue two or three hostages the president says "WELL DONE. I HOPE YOU DO YOUR NEXT MISSION JUST AS WELL" If you rescue at least four hostages, the president smiles at you and says "SPLENDID! YOU ARE A REAL PRO".
The four example endings go like this: 1. If a player shoots all the hostages, but makes a successful getaway, the president angrily exclaims in a Tom Wyner/Tony Jay/Tim Curry/Bob Barker/Pat Summerall-like spooky baritone voice: "You failed in your mission. We won't ask you again!" 2. If a player dies, the commander says: "You have sustained a lethal injury. Sorry, but you are finished here." 3. If a player runs out of ammo, the commander says: "Since you have no ammunition left you must join the prisoners." 4. If a player rescues all five hostages and makes a successful getaway, the president happily exclaims: "SPLENDID! YOU ARE A REAL PRO!!!!!"
My epilepsy is contained, I take medication and all is well. However, if i've been drinking, play videogames all night until 7am with no sleep, then i will MORE THAN LIKELY have a seizure the same day. So after i watched AVGN I sat down sober, with good sleep the night before and wathced this. I couldnt get past 3 minutes without feeling a bit dizzy. No thank you. Good on you AVGN and good on the game company for fixing it with the next title.
I was traumatized the first time I killed that lady hostage in the jungle stage. That was a long jump for an 9 year old boy to go from jumping on turtles to shooting civilians by accident. I noticed this is the version where you DON'T get to select your missions or fight that officer in the jungle with the hostage.
I'm not going mad then, it doesn't appear in the MAME version I have! I do remember the officer at the end of the jungle level who was the reason at one regular holiday arcade I went to I rarely got past level 2 (and a similar bad guy with hostage more sensibly saved until the end of the game being why I never finished Opt Thunderbolt!)
No home console can replicate the arcade experience, playing on the real cabinet is the most fun you can pump out of a military hostage rescuing mission. It's addicting and it will eat up your quarters, like Cabal, a similar game to Operation Wolf.
Growing up in the 80s, these graphics were considered cutting edge! It would be on par with the PS5 and Xbox Series X. I spent all 20 dollars of my birthday money playing it and it was well worth it!
World of Longplays to answer your question. "I'm curious what was going on in that play, because all decent score entries and all scores in YT videos are around 400K" You can check the INP playback of the 6,211,200 points at Twin Galaxies. My new score is 16,316,700 at the hardest settings and lowest clip magazine being four. My sixteen million points got the attention of a UK Magazine called Retro Gamer Magazine issue: 67 that wanted to know how i pulled it off, i explain it in great detail. Sadly over the years, many people think i cheated...My focus now on this game will be to beat the physical arcade machine at Funspot to prove worthy of World Champion status. In all fairness, the current world champion of this game is to the person that has did it on the real hardware at TG.
Loves how he risks his life to save hostages, but ends up being a hostage because they don't want to replenish his ammo supply. Thanks, U.S.A, you're so dependable.
that is true. The uzi did have force feedback. and while it is fun to play it on MAME, it honestly doesn't feel right without holding the Uzi. What i usually do though to make it almost feel like the arcade game is that i use the mouse with one hand and hold an unloaded Uzi airsoft gun with the other hand and follow the cursors movements with it.
I always loved this game. You're in Vietnam, fighting an army comprised at least in part of clones of Fidel Castro, to save POWs, Short Round, a Swedish bikini model, a mamasan, and an overworked pair of nurses, while pigs and chickens run around crapping bullets everywhere. If there's a more original concept for a game out there, I've yet to find it.
I first played this game at a local rollerskating rink many years ago. Sadly they’re closed now, but I used to love playing this game whenever I had the chance.
Taito should’ve made the Operation Wolf coin-operated arcade game with a choice of difficulty easy = more ammunition, medium = moderate amount of ammunition, hard = less ammunition
here it is, the exact arcade game that got me into gaming back in the 80's. i later got this on C64, and i was disappointed it wasn't the same as the arcade.
I can't believe this franchise is getting a reboot! I'm excited! Edit: It was the worth the wait, even if it’s currently still in VR. Just hope the non-VR version comes soon! Double Edit: The non-VR version is out now. And it looks good!
In Vietnam, they had what was called R&R and believe it or not, there were bikini girls. If you ever get a chance to watch the Vietnam documentary on Netflix, it will talk about it.
This game is now on the Arcade Memories Vol. 2 SD card for Taito’s Egret II Mini! It is compatible with Dempa’s USB Cyber Stick controller (XE1AJ-USB).
My father's bar he worked at in around the same time as you lol give me a hand full of quarters and 8 hours later I was still standing there on the bench firing away fun times as a kid best game
@@Hillthugsta It was definitely influenced by it, the attract screen on Operational Wolf is a very close copy of the scene where Arnie gears up before the assault on Arius' base. Commando 1985, Op Wolf 1987
Still have the NES version. Was one of my favorite games when I was 10 years old. I don't know why they changed the word hostages to prisoners on that version.
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I was curious after the new AVGN episode. The flickering isnt that bad but only for short playing sessions.
But honestly, it IS that bad if you have epilepsy. It seems to get really intense at some points, which is probably why he refused to show it.
I have epilepsy, I'm doing alright
Well, this isnt running at 60fps, so there are many frames (and a bunch of them being the flashing ones) missing
Operation wolf is a classic.
Couldnt stand the fact he said it was a bad game anyway
@@alphatrion100 the nerd was too tough, anyway. For example, he said that gun frontier and gekirindan are nothing but generic shoot em up with a gimmick, but they are great games. Same with puchi carat and bust a move/puzzle bobble
I'm here because AVGN wouldn't show this game in his latest video.
Same. He says the constant flashing could cause seizures
Same here.
Also from AVGN lol
Same
@@SailorPalutena It does contain seizure warning in this playthrough. The NES version is fine without any seizures.
No wonder why avgn doesn't wanted to Show it
Looks like I'm not the only one who looked up a gameplay vid after he said he couldn't show it due to health and safety
Eh...i mean...a lot of old Famicom games have really intense strobe effects. Recca is full of em
Gives me headache
I have epilepsy, but fun fact, only a small amount of people with epilepsy get triggered by strobes and flashing colours... The fact that he grouped all people with epilepsy into one group, and said "Not showing it" is very insulting.
The original xbox version has no flicker at all. Thank goodness.
AVGN wasn't wrong, I don't even have epilepsy, and this is still unbearable.
Damn you are fast as hell
Holy shit... That IS pretty bad
Avgn crew checking in.
@@Shadowsinger001 It is indeed, I’m not even epileptic or anything and couldn’t even tolerate 5 seconds.
This is an instrument of torture literally.
checking in from AVGN
I played this maybe 30 years ago and just randomly remembered it tonight and looked it up.
It still looks like a lot of fun. I'd play it even today
What you don't notice the nuclear flash every second or so ?
@@rickvankempen24 , I don't mind
@@jeremiaha5167 but internet says flash bad
@@lerp5555
Hahahaha you made my day with this comment 😂
Just rented a cabin and it had a mini arcade with various games and this was one. Awesome
The INTRO in this game is beautiful,it represents the entire philosophy of the 80's
Its John Matrix gearing up scene in the final battle in Commando.
Shoot them all and let god figure it out lol
We heard it trough the arcade cause this game was set the loudest... Good times when we heard that knife click...
You know why some players of this game get easily depleted of bullets? They waste their bullets on that passing 10-wheeler truck (1:48 / 11:11) which wasn't included on their enemies list instead of shooting war tanks & helicopters. Happily he let the last 10-wheeler truck to pass by (14:40)🚛🚛🚛
@@Hillthugsta 100%
Brace yourselves, the AVGN army is coming.
You're already here
I have epilepsy, but fun fact, only a small amount of people with epilepsy get triggered by strobes and flashing colours... The fact that he grouped all people with epilepsy into one group, and said "Not showing it" is very insulting.
@@The_Totes_Adorbs
He did no such thing, go rewatch it. He never mentioned epilepsy, that was all you.
AVGN just said "It flashes in way it's so horrible, it can possibly cause seizures."
@@Paradoxwhirl Seizure is an epileptic thing, fool.
@@The_Totes_Adorbs I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to be insulting to anyone. He was just giving a warning in case it did affect anyone.
"Uwah! Uwah!"
I remember seeing this game at the laundromat over 20 years ago. I would get bored waiting for my mom to finish the clothes so I'd play this game awhile. Good times!
Those were the days huh
Gas station in town when my sister and I were kids. Funny-- my mom was okay with this, but we weren't allowed to play Double Dragon because of the intro where the girl gets punched.
@@darastarscream You shoot those evil bastards but keep your hands off women! Your mum had pretty good taste. Mid 80's right?
@@Skycrusher Yup. Which considering DD ended with brothers fighting to the death-- my sister and I did not need further inspiration when it comes to wringing each other's necks.
Yo same
AVGN: I'm not gonna show you footage of this game because it might cause seizures.
Everyone who watched his Taito Legends episode: Fine, I'll do it myself.
This guy sure doesn't believe in using his rockets.
Jeremy Bridges i often refrain from using them save for when there's more than 1 vehicle in my line of sight, but they're very dangerous to use in the prison camp and airport stages when the hostages appear (the rocket's blast radius is wide enough to kill them even if they're not hit directly by them)
@@figment1988 I just can't resists throwing a rocket grenade especially when an APC rides below a chopper. The last boss (HAVOC) gets a full load of grenades from me, always. I really don't care, bout prisoners, since it's a game after all.
@@raulferro3998 It's more than game. It's an exact realization of war in the jungle. You saw the girl running in the bikini right? You know the one he shot twice. Lol
i remember feeling impressed with the graphics.
Memories but until today this game more hard than Cod :P
Honestly it was pretty good for 1987.
Me too and compare in 1987 with Operation Wolf arcade and Operation thunderbolt coin up 1989 with BATTLEFIELD 5 32 or 30 years after. Imagine in 2051 and compare BF5 with future game war, kakakakakakaak
I remember feeling chilled by the intro.
@@pauloroberto-bi4ky diminishing returns is name of the game...
A timeless classic wich even after 30 years is still great.
Imagine how shocking this game would,ve be in 1987.
uhmmm.. it wasn't really shocking, so much as it had an uzi instead of a joystick.. we had arcades back then
It was amazing. I played it every chance I could and blew a lot of quarters.
5:52 what did women in bikinis do to you?
@@mwaawm well with those sexy womans in mind it was very ahead for it’s time 😁
I lived this game in 1987. It was in the time of Rambo.
I love the fact that everyone came over here from AVGN's review of Taito Legends. Amazing lol
Well I didn’t,RUclips for some reason recommended the video to me,I can’t refuse when RUclips does something right.
This is the first gun game I ever saw as a child. I played it briefly in a pizza restaurant when I was about six or seven. The fact that the Uzi actually had recoil was the most awesome thing I had ever seen at that age.
Came from AVGN. I had a seizure.
You big dummy
Wait really? Are you joking?
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not, but if you’re serious I hope you’re ok. I wonder if this was a legal problem for Taito when the game released.
Stick to xbox. They removed the light gun flickers on that version.
Hope you're feeling better now.
I love how he randomly kills villagers. Like, not wantonly killing them all, he just picks particular ones and is like "this one. This one must die. The others may live, but this one..."
I feel he has something against bikinis! 👙
He kills civilians, period! He killed a skateboarder @3:06 for NOTHING!
@@roderickstockdale1678
01:24 That's a blatant breach of the Geneva Convention right there, and he's only seconds into his mission?!
@@roderickstockdale1678 when a young boy screams like that, he had it coming!
@@alstound you kill civilians, that’s bad for your service, your country…AND government!!! You do that at will they can execute you for crimes of war against humanity, off record if it’s unofficial!
I've always wondered, what's a bikini clad woman doing in a third world country village? She's obviously got to be an enemy co-conspirator.
Haha its True Blond do have more fun.. i also wonder that.. Cute right..
Tourist.
I think its the drug dealers whores
bigbossman120277 FARC's Prostitutes xD
you are a good spy hunter comrade
One of my fave arcade games of all time. Holding that Uzi and blasting on screen badies just felt amazing. If I remember right the gun had vibration recoil right?
Yup, that was one of the best features - it vibrated when you fired - added to the realism. Dropped many a quarter or watched others play.
Yeah. The gun was basic black too, none of this hot pink This Is A Toy nonsense.
Was it an Uzi or s mac 10?
@@rossMIE something fictional in between
@@rossMIE It was an Uzi, I loved this game so much as a kid it made me buy a full classic semi auto Uzi as an adult.
I always like the 'death' where it says "Since you have no ammunition left. You must join the hostages"
Or "You've sustained a lethal injury. You are finished here!" Or even "You failed in your mission. WE WON'T ASK YA AGAIN!"
It was the cadence that really threw me off. "Sorry, but you are finished................................... here." That's so weird why'd they do it like that? This is the kind of crap I've thought about on and off since I was a kid.
Let me put it this way: "Since you have no ammunition left, you have no choice but to join the hostages!" "NO! I WON'T JOIN THE HOSTAGES! THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!" "You must join the hostages! YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL, YOU WILL!!!! THAT IS AN ORDER! YOU FUCKING MUST!!!!!" "BUT I TOLD YA, I WILL NEVER JOIN THE HOSTAGES!!! NEVER!!!!!!!" "THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE!!! JOIN THE HOSTAGES NOW OR BE DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "FINE!!!!!!!! ENEMIES, TAKE HIM AWAY!!!!!!!!!!" "LET GO OF ME, YA MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!" (Commando angrily snaps) "YES!!!!! NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL BEING A REAL PRO!!!!!!! I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN MY MISSION!!!!! I WILL HAVE MANY MORE MISSIONS AGAIN!!!!!!!"
The player obviously hates women 5:51 shoots woman in bikini right in the crotch.
Aw man this really hit the nostalgia feels for me...way way back in the early 90's we actually had this game in the little lineup of games we owned at our store... My pops used to play this and now that he's passed it has much more nostalgia for me
Wow, AVGN wasn't kidding...
To quote him, what were they thinking?
>.
Screw AVGN and his weeny fans. There's nothing wrong with this game at all
This brings back memories of playing this in the arcade on Llandudno pier in the 80's. Good times.
*Taito* will never be the same again...
_Thanks AVGN._
THIS GAME MAKES ME WANT TO GO OUTSIDE AND
help old ladies across the street ;)
TooCrooked 😂
OUAAAAAAAAH! OUUUUUUAAAAAAAH! WHOA! WHOA! OUAAAAAAAAAH§
Blowing up an APC with a short burst from a 9mm (or .45) submachine gun? Why not?
It was an uzi on the arcade machine so 9mm
How is 1CC even possible for this game? The enemies keep appearing everywhere and there's barely enough time to take them out before they shoot you
Freeing the village healed your damage, raiding the ammo-dump actually got your extra ammo.
To this day I recall how impressed I was with what I would later refer to as "immersion".
Yes - complete with the vibrating gun grip like you were firing real bullets.
This brings back so many fond memories!! ❤
I'm here after AVGN refused to show gameplay of this because the flashing has a serious seizure risk. And yeah. It fucking does
did you get the seizures because i will be honest im baf
@@knuckledraggers5396 I'm not epileptic but I'd say if a strobe light can give you a headache you're at risk
awesome arcade game, although I was poor and could never afford it, I did enjoy squeezing the trigger while the demo played and I pretended to play it, I mean I did scrounge up a quarter from the couch cushion once but I spent that on a slap bracelet, I was just a poor barefoot kid, good ole days, freedom!
You literally WERE poor!
I remember myself in Moscow train station watching someone playing this arcade. At that time I was a pupil (not a student) of a Secondary School. Good memories.
Impressive play through. This arcade game had a mounted Uzi and ate my allowance every week at the pizza shop after school. It was called Operations Wolf because it wolfed your quarters, and it was kickass.
Yes, I'm here after watching the recent AVGN episode! But, to be honest, I never ever had any problems with the white screen flashes everytime you shoot the gun. Heck, I didn't even notice or even mind when I first played this on Taito Legends! Anyway, despite the screen-flashes, which I don't mind at all, this game is a an absolute classic that's really fun to play! I loved playing this game and I still do love playing it today! Great game! ^^
Operation initiated! Rescue hostages!
I remember being 6 or 7 years old and playing this at the holiday camp. Probably didn't even have credits half the night but just sat waving the gun about haha
Brings me back to the days when I actually went to arcades on base as a kid
Inolvidables parece mentira que hallan pasado mas de 30 años llevare estos lindos recuerdos siempre. Gracias Amigos
Great game .... I remember it at the time of the 80s ... Sigh! How many memories ... In the video game room, there was always a queue to play Operation Wolf. The novelty was that submachine gun instead of normal controllers. Too bad that, after having done all the first route to the airport, the next phase was identical to the first ... only that it was terribly more difficult. I remember that someone rarely managed to finish the second series of missions. As I saw in the video, invariably, in the second stage, it ended with the mission of the jungle, which is really unthinkable, with a really exaggerated level. However, in the versions that came out with "MAME" for personal computers, I sometimes managed to keep going, because, at the end of the first mission of the second series, I always left a single helicopter or armored car, without eliminating it even if it hit me . I waited for the bonuses to come out and often, as a bonus, gave me the drink that worked as a health potion. If I was particularly lucky, several of these potions came out, and with my health restored I faced the jungle scenario better. Unfortunately the trick was not always successful, the drinks did not come out and I was forced to eliminate the helicopter or the armored car without having had any bonus ...
I don't think the flashing could induce seizures but it is hard on the eyes after a few seconds.
Videogame logic:
- Hostage: "Help!".. reaches end of screen: (Still in danger) "Thank you!"
- Shoot glass.. glass catches bullet
- Plane slower than foot-soldier.. takes off
- Plane takes more than 30 seconds on runway to take off.. "sucessfull getaway"
- Kill hundreds of enemies in war.. President: "Splendid. You are a real pro."
- Win the war.. Insert coin to restart exact same war
- "The hostages are all dead".. "You must join the hostages"
- Become a hostage.. President: "You failed your mission. We won't ask you again"
In other words:
1. Successful getaway. Success in freeing 5 hostages! SPLENDID! YOU ARE A REAL PRO!
2. Since you have no ammunition left, you must join the prisoners.
3. You've sustained a lethal injury. Sorry but you are finished here.
4. All the hostages are dead. "YOU FAILED IN YOUR MISSION! WE WON'T ASK YOU AGAIN!"
Very perceptive comment. I think that video games and reality are not the same thing. Thank you
*Last level in the airport is nail-biting.*
*Splended! A winner is you.*
But if he fails to make a successul getaway, the president will say: "YOU FAILED IN YOUR MISSION! WE WON'T ASK YA AGAIN!"
@@danalong1237That's ONLY if you clear the prison camp or the airport scene without rescuing any hostages. If you rescue one hostage, the president will say "NOT VERY SATISFACTORY BUT YOU CAN HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE".
If you rescue two or three hostages the president says "WELL DONE. I HOPE YOU DO YOUR NEXT MISSION JUST AS WELL"
If you rescue at least four hostages, the president smiles at you and says "SPLENDID! YOU ARE A REAL PRO".
SPLENDED! YOU ARE A REAL PRO. - The President.
The four example endings go like this:
1. If a player shoots all the hostages, but makes a successful getaway, the president angrily exclaims in a Tom Wyner/Tony Jay/Tim Curry/Bob Barker/Pat Summerall-like spooky baritone voice: "You failed in your mission. We won't ask you again!"
2. If a player dies, the commander says: "You have sustained a lethal injury. Sorry, but you are finished here."
3. If a player runs out of ammo, the commander says: "Since you have no ammunition left you must join the prisoners."
4. If a player rescues all five hostages and makes a successful getaway, the president happily exclaims: "SPLENDID! YOU ARE A REAL PRO!!!!!"
I always got a kick of of that line!
i wanna know what kind of gun he's using that can take a tank down in 6 bullets
Found this from Angry Video Game Nerd. He wasn't lying this could cause seizure like a mofo!!!! I needed to see this in action!
My epilepsy is contained, I take medication and all is well. However, if i've been drinking, play videogames all night until 7am with no sleep, then i will MORE THAN LIKELY have a seizure the same day.
So after i watched AVGN I sat down sober, with good sleep the night before and wathced this. I couldnt get past 3 minutes without feeling a bit dizzy. No thank you. Good on you AVGN and good on the game company for fixing it with the next title.
i can't wait for this to skyrocket in views because of avgn.
The arcade gun was awesome with the little red middle button on the left side
Loved that a red button was for explosivies. Grenades
I was traumatized the first time I killed that lady hostage in the jungle stage. That was a long jump for an 9 year old boy to go from jumping on turtles to shooting civilians by accident. I noticed this is the version where you DON'T get to select your missions or fight that officer in the jungle with the hostage.
I'm not going mad then, it doesn't appear in the MAME version I have! I do remember the officer at the end of the jungle level who was the reason at one regular holiday arcade I went to I rarely got past level 2 (and a similar bad guy with hostage more sensibly saved until the end of the game being why I never finished Opt Thunderbolt!)
You couldn’t on the NES either.
Perhaps this is set to easy dipswitch settings. I have zero chance of beating the 2nd stage on default settings.
I always loved the mentality of civies in these kinds of games. "THERE SLOTS OF GUN FIRE GOING ON,IM GOING TO RUN INTO THE FIRE FIGHT"
No home console can replicate the arcade experience, playing on the real cabinet is the most fun you can pump out of a military hostage rescuing mission. It's addicting and it will eat up your quarters, like Cabal, a similar game to Operation Wolf.
Girl in a bikini and heels just running through the jungle. Totally normal.
Anime aside,
Japan has a thing for
those kinds of babes IRL.
I use to play this in the arcades when I was a kid. The gun was awesome. It had such a good feel and weight to it.
Growing up in the 80s, these graphics were considered cutting edge! It would be on par with the PS5 and Xbox Series X. I spent all 20 dollars of my birthday money playing it and it was well worth it!
Well, this comment certainly aged well.
World of Longplays to answer your question. "I'm curious what was going on in that play, because all decent score entries and all scores in YT videos are around 400K" You can check the INP playback of the 6,211,200 points at Twin Galaxies. My new score is 16,316,700 at the hardest settings and lowest clip magazine being four. My sixteen million points got the attention of a UK Magazine called Retro Gamer Magazine issue: 67 that wanted to know how i pulled it off, i explain it in great detail. Sadly over the years, many people think i cheated...My focus now on this game will be to beat the physical arcade machine at Funspot to prove worthy of World Champion status. In all fairness, the current world champion of this game is to the person that has did it on the real hardware at TG.
So, the enemy soldiers are defending the village from you?
Thats a really good point... I'd never though about it like that.... you are the bad guy! :)
Yeah, lol, I couldn't help but notice all the innocents fleeing in terror and gunned down, lol.
Cuba isn't it???
No, 0:36 you're rescuing hostages from that village.
No, they took over the village by force. You're liberating the villagers from them.
The first gun game in arcade I every saw or played.I remember the line up waiting for this game only.
I love how you have blatant disregard for the Geneva convention.
+David Davenport Black ops, maybe?
Loves how he risks his life to save hostages, but ends up being a hostage because they don't want to replenish his ammo supply.
Thanks, U.S.A, you're so dependable.
No crosshair???
that is true. The uzi did have force feedback. and while it is fun to play it on MAME, it honestly doesn't feel right without holding the Uzi. What i usually do though to make it almost feel like the arcade game is that i use the mouse with one hand and hold an unloaded Uzi airsoft gun with the other hand and follow the cursors movements with it.
Yeah blue and red together would cause seizure. Thanks james.
That’s exactly what happened with that banned episode of Pokémon, “Electric Soldier Porygon”
I dont have epilepsy but this made my head hurt. AVGN saved lots of people a headhache
I always loved this game. You're in Vietnam, fighting an army comprised at least in part of clones of Fidel Castro, to save POWs, Short Round, a Swedish bikini model, a mamasan, and an overworked pair of nurses, while pigs and chickens run around crapping bullets everywhere. If there's a more original concept for a game out there, I've yet to find it.
LOL - great description - and the gun grip vibrated when you fired your bullets.
Maybe Central/South America!
I first played this game at a local rollerskating rink many years ago. Sadly they’re closed now, but I used to love playing this game whenever I had the chance.
damage warning sound used to legit scare me as a kid?
Cole it’s great. I used something similar to create tension in a game I helped with.
Can I play operation wolf without light phaser only with the control pad ?
16:59 That would never happen to John Rambo.
Taito should’ve made the Operation Wolf coin-operated arcade game with a choice of difficulty
easy = more ammunition, medium = moderate amount of ammunition, hard = less ammunition
Masterpiece
here it is, the exact arcade game that got me into gaming back in the 80's.
i later got this on C64, and i was disappointed it wasn't the same as the arcade.
AVGN wasnt kidding. This game constant flickering and light flashing can causing seizures
I would play this game in a grocery store! Man this brings back memories!
Let off some steam, Bennett.
Wait the 2nd jungle level should have a boss right?
3:05 you devil!!!!!! :O
Could of been strapped to explode he couldn't take the chance on that one
I can't believe this franchise is getting a reboot! I'm excited!
Edit: It was the worth the wait, even if it’s currently still in VR. Just hope the non-VR version comes soon!
Double Edit: The non-VR version is out now. And it looks good!
Is this Chuck Norris playing this game? Geez.
This soldier uses a KaBar knife , thats a nice detail.
here from AVGN
I remember playing this game as a kid and you can see where you have to shoot pretty accurate since you can run out of ammo.
AVGN was right, I had at least 37 seizures watching this.
Lol, 98.5% of the views are from AVGN.
The other vids on this channel average about 5k views each. This one is at 336k!!!
I'm here for AVGN.
This machine was really common during it’s time. I remember seeing it all the time but didn’t play it that often.
Seizures promoted by AVGN!
A wonderful ride. Lots of memories.
0:41
What are bikini girls doing in the war zone?!
In Vietnam, they had what was called R&R and believe it or not, there were bikini girls. If you ever get a chance to watch the Vietnam documentary on Netflix, it will talk about it.
Jimmy Lim Kids too?.
+Invidente7 В зоне боевых действий самый лучший загар!
It was the 80s, man.
This game is now on the Arcade Memories Vol. 2 SD card for Taito’s Egret II Mini! It is compatible with Dempa’s USB Cyber Stick controller (XE1AJ-USB).
I was 10 in 1987and the Red Rooster around the corner from my house had it....I spent all summer in there!!!
Ground Round Baltimore 87
My father's bar he worked at in around the same time as you lol give me a hand full of quarters and 8 hours later I was still standing there on the bench firing away fun times as a kid best game
I remember playing this on the NES!
Good times. Thanks for sharing.
Me too
As phony as Arnold is in Commando😂😂😂😂😂😂
I used to think this game was based on that movie
@@Hillthugsta It was definitely influenced by it, the attract screen on Operational Wolf is a very close copy of the scene where Arnie gears up before the assault on Arius' base. Commando 1985, Op Wolf 1987
best part when you got the Gatling machine gun!
Better than the Nintendo version. =3
Excellent gameplay :) the Cabinet of this game it was something unheard
This game inspired me to join the military!
***** so you gotta win
+Rob Finlay are you still in the military?
Still have the NES version. Was one of my favorite games when I was 10 years old. I don't know why they changed the word hostages to prisoners on that version.
Had to see the flashing for myself.
My eye genuinely started tearing up at that bright light. Wtf.
I think Eino has something against women in bikinis.
All the times I played this game, I never ever noticed the enemies counters