Operation Wolf
45K plays 1990 #Shooter
Operation Wolf is a 1987 light gun shooter video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was ported to many home systems.
The game was critically and commercially successful. It was one of the highest-grossing arcade games of 1988 and won the Golden Joystick Award for Game of the Year. Operation Wolf popularized military-themed first-person light gun rail shooters and inspired numerous clones, imitators, and others in the genre over the next decade. It spawned three sequels: Operation Thunderbolt (1988), Operation Wolf 3 (1994) and Operation Tiger (オペレーションタイガー) (1998). A remake, Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission, was released in 2023.
This is the Japanese release, so its text is in Japanese.
From Wikipedia's article Operation Wolf, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Keyboard controls
| TG-16 | Player 1 | Player 2 |
|---|---|---|
| D-pad | ↑↓←→ | IKJL |
| II | Z | N |
| I | X | M |
| Select | Shift | B |
| Run | Enter | Space |
Hotkeys
- 1 Quick save state
- 2 Quick load state
- 3 Change save slot
Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).
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Keyboard controls
| TG-16 | Player 1 | Player 2 |
|---|---|---|
| D-pad | ↑↓←→ | IKJL |
| II | Z | N |
| I | X | M |
| Select | Shift | B |
| Run | Enter | Space |
Hotkeys
- 1 Quick save state
- 2 Quick load state
- 3 Change save slot
Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).
2.5 Could be better
Players 62 · 135 votes
No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.
Review scorecard
- Graphics 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Players 62 · 135 votes. The same 62/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.
What the reviews talk about
Key wordsviolentfast-pacedplayable
What the critics said
Commodore User said it beats Sega's After Burner as "the game of the year and much of next year too" but that it may draw some controversy from tabloids for its Rambo-like violent content.
— Commodore User, 1987
Your Sinclair called it a "fast and furious" action game, and said it "broke a bit of new 'ground' for arcade games 'cos the 'nasties' fired directly at you through the screen".
— Your Sinclair, 1988· about another version
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Operation Wolf article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
Scores
- ACE 894; 894 (CPC); 887
- AllGame 2014 4.5/5 (other versions)
- Crash 91% (other versions)
- Computer and Video Games 1987 Positive; 91%; 92%; 91% (other versions)
- Electronic Gaming Monthly 1989 25/40 (other versions)
- The Games Machine (UK) 79%; 90%; 89% (CPC); 87% (other versions)
- Génération 4 93%; 93% (other versions)
- Mean Machines Sega 1992 53% (other versions)
- Player One 70% (other versions)
- Sinclair User 90% (other versions)
- Your Sinclair 1988 Positive; 9/10 (other versions)
- Zero 1990 86% (other versions)
- Zzap!64 91% (other versions)
From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.
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