Operation Thunderbolt Longplay (Arcade) [4K]

[@ammalvonnostrand8661]

I miss the arcades of my youth. 5 bucks went a long way then

[@bluespaceman7937]

Quite right.

[@alexander1485]

you were like a half god with 5 bucks

[@adjustableisland8806]

Those hostages coming out is really awesome - the dude with the camera, the chick with the uh ... haha . Its a shame though the next level had the same 2 hostages. It would've been fun to see different wacky hostages come out each level.

[@holden6104]

Love the music in the intro. Straight out of the 80s action movies of the time.

[@samboyle25]

Gotta agree.

[@msmith-vh6pn]

If I remember correctly, you can't continue if you lose against the last guy. You only get one chance to defeat him.

[@dragondude9637]

Also if you accidentally kill the pilot, you get the bad ending.

[@TV-Tony]

@@dragondude9637 yep, which I did the first time I played this. It was weeks before I got back to the arcade and was able to replay and get this above good ending and again on two player haha. Feels like forever when you're a teenager though. I thought NOOOOOO lol.

[@RS-do1of]

@@TV-Tony same! A nice Scottish guy joined with me… gave me a credit as we reached the final stage and I died… and then I killed the pilot

[@samboyle25]

@@dragondude9637 The pilot is dead! Escape is impossible.

[@Tigerman1138]

Yes! Once you reach the terrorist leader it is no turning back. You cannot continue if killed. You are trapped without a pilot even if you kill terrorist. Happened to me once.

[@AgentofLADON]

Sadly there is never a bonus level with the player character slapping the hostages for running in front of his bullets.

[@davidebriganti2761]

An airplane is carrying THE people. ALL OF THEM. Must be hella spacious.

[@foxgloves321]

But they did make contact with intelligent agent and obtained information

[@davidebriganti2761]

@@foxgloves321 At least it wasn't a stupid agent. Ah, the good old days of badly translated games

[@foxgloves321]

@@davidebriganti2761 Japanese games messed up my grasp of the English language way into middle school.

[@gerardo8646]

This reminds Operation Wolf Nes

[@bbtund81]

@@foxgloves321 This is because of Engrish. Japanese developers tried their best to speak like americans do, but with simplicity and loose translations.

[@MrMittens1974]

I used to love showing off in the arcade by dual wielding with the second Mac-10 at the same time 😅

[@darrenclements6028]

Operation Thunderbolt is legendary with Spectacular graphics and gameplay With a opening scene that resembles Commando

[@adjustableisland8806]

Impressive shooting! That level inside the plane is badass.

[@lordjimbo2]

With men the caliber of Roy Adams and Hardy Jones we should never have lost the war. What an indictment of our intellectual elites.

[@lilwyvern4]

And that caliber is .45 ACP.

[@MarquisLeary34]

Damn, Mac-10's were POWERFUL back in 1988. Taking down armored personnel carriers and HIND's...

[@deceiver444]

Shooting dozen of grenades in an airplane ✈ 🤔

[@JamalGardner1]

0:42 Operation... ⚡💥 THUNDERBOLT!!

[@seanyoung9014]

Forgot about this one. I remember it being a bit more difficult than Operation Wolf.

[@davidhill8565]

Operation Thunderbolt is the sequel to Operation Wolf, which lacks a credits roll.

[@ssdivizion]

Great shooter and excellent successful to legendary Operation Wolf

[@kx1630]

props to the Japanese guy who delivered 'R&R', truly a feat

[@ArttuTheCat]

I have this game on my PlayStation 2 (TAITO LEGENDS) and Amiga 500. With 2 players, it's awesome. 😺👍🕹️🕹️

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

The Amiga conversion was excellent!

[@deceiver444]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays even had better graphics in a few parts

[@dlfrsilver]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays it was inferior to Operation Wolf however. Opwolf with 1mb of ram had the full graphics of the coin op. The Amiga version is an ST port :/

[@ArttuTheCat]

@@dlfrsilver I used to have Operation Wolf on the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500. Both of them were actually great conversions. 😺👍🕹️

[@dlfrsilver]

@@ArttuTheCat the best 8 bits version of Opwolf is the Amstrad CPC version. The c64 version is horrible and dull.

[@Kyntteri]

8:20 she's giving that baby to the ghost of your fighting buddy :D. Few details here and there different from the Ocean port but I actually prefer the dithered home computer graphics over this. And that grenade and cutlery spamming was getting crazy in the early stages but you know they really, really want you very dead, when they started rolling armoured cars indoors to get you.

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

And this is precisely why I don't enjoy the game - it just constantly overwhelms you. This was recorded on the default "Medium" difficulty, but even "Easy" is bloody tough...

[@KevinGeaslin]

I only got to the ending once at the Galaxy Theater arcade but accidentally shot the pilot.

[@123456RaulMorales]

Operation Thunderbolt aka Operation Entebbe, Entebbe Raid, Operation Yonatan (7-4-1976).

[@Gah-d9c]

Back in 90's when i played the really best part is i played with stranger and we steal ammo and pow to each other and it makes me angry if he steal my full life package aahhh nostalgic😅😅😅

[@TChighbury]

The 'intelligent agent' who remains inconspicuous by hiding in a church in the middle of the road

[@stormcrow28]

Who knew Hinds were so vulnerable to submachine guns?

[@Sunyerid2482]

Yamaha YM2610 is truly like a revolutionary of eighty's Arcade soundchips. Being able to speak both PSG, FM sound and even High-quality stereo sound sample in this era...

[@Simon0]

Lol how do those guys hang upside down like Spiderman

[@usermtnxorange]

7:28 nice first-aid kit!!

[@saj8]

I beat this game the first day it came out.

[@Leo-dr4qm]

Brilliant game

[@Banderpop]

Why does the enemy need hostages when they already have about a thousand fighter jets at their disposal? Although those jets really should have been made out of the same material as the passenger plane, instead of seemingly magnesium...

[@foxgloves321]

Not to mention the cardboard tanks.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

15:48 "Project Reader"? Surely that has to be Taito trolling us with "reader" instead of "leader".

[@lilwyvern4]

Nah, probably just the classic L/R mixup when it comes to Japanese to English translations. Japanese has a sound that's sort of in between an L and an R sound. As there's nothing equivalent, whoever was in charge of the localization probably just goofed. It doesn't help that leader and reader are both words.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@lilwyvern4 Still, they probably should have had an English speaker proofread that thing before publication. In fact, I'm surprised more non-English texts, such as in product instructions, advertisements online, etc aren't proofread before being published. I'm sure that service is available via some online service for reasonable money.

[@SolCresta3405]

Not a bad sequel, but the final boss pales in comparison to the final boss of the first game.

[@efirizaki6457]

I have the original arcade (The machine wich have two mac 10 on it) Does it worth something?? Medium condition

[@jeanbaudrand9969]

Did you used an emulatir and if yes:What did you used for gun?

[@robfinlay8058]

This game is a fairly realistic portrayal of the Entebbe raid in 1976 where the Israeli Defence Force successfully freed 102 hostages that had been hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and were being held captive in Uganda. One of the first videogames and certainly the first coin-op game to tackle such a serious real-life situation.

[@rashounjohnson9562]

I just realized this is revision 2 your playing. Why I said that? Revision 1 has to be change because the plot to the game was too similar to a real life incident know as OPERATION ENTEBBE which is also called OPERATION THUNDERBOLT.

[@yeraysantanaaday6827]

A great game.😘🤩🥰

[@alexander1485]

how many jeeps does he need?

[@phlebiax5592]

This is the sequel to Operation Wolf?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Yes :)

[@phlebiax5592]

@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays Ok :) For me Operation Wolf onm C64, was more fun instead of this to be honest. But must've been a child memory back then :)

[@jounik8980]

Cats are not terrorist

[@seangamer1070]

Mutant fighter ??? Gameplay

[@lilwyvern4]

Just curious. I noticed you rarely shot at anything on the right side of the screen. Any reason for that or is the game just so batshit that you decided to save yourself the headache?

[@AL82RetrogamingLongplays]

Imagine a line running vertically down the centre of the screen - player 1 only takes damage from enemies shooting the left half, and player 2 only takes damage from enemies shooting on the right. In single player it makes sense to shoot only those enemies that present an immediate threat (i.e. on the left) and leave those on the right, at least until you know they'll move into the left half of the screen.

[@minduton]

Heeeelp!

[@dansmith1661]

I thought it was weird that there was a church in the first level, but this was decades before we waged wars against elected leaders who protected the few Christians still living in those places.

[@suleymanbabak1973]

Elected leaders. In Lybia. Right.

[@pericoperico9869]

at the bad guys don't care his happiness they care to live in the shit in the life real when they are drug and drunks

[@tommik1283]

Some of those FM high pitched sound effects are so annoying... they should have used just samples... or good old AY

[@fredo1070]

15:08 So the pilot is Donald Trump

[@유재운.29]

똥마렵다

[@cenkgoy1901]

Allahu akbar!

[@edvardgt4465]

14:04: We're sure to win if we all throw grenades inside the passenger cabin

[@vivianriver6450]

No intruder will expect tanks inside the hallways of our HQ!

[@eulivere6535]

What is unit of main character? Green beret?