Operation Wolf, A Retrospective

[@gullyfoyle2615]

My dad used to hold me up to the cabinet so I could play, and I played it a lot. Loved it

[@WanderlustZero]

Best dad. It was the milk crate for me!

[@favoritemustard3542]

This was one of my Dad's faves at the arcade, Games People Play! ...it's also the only game he bought for himself to play on my NES lol Cool retrospective, tyvm 👍🐺👍

[@nomadjock]

Cheers dude :)

[@volrath77]

Oh, I used to be addicted to this. The feeling of that mock Uzi on the arcade machine was awesome and then there's the super powerup. A shame that it's not made available on Steam. I sure would've liked to play it again.

[@nomadjock]

Its a pity that games like this aren't made anymore, the 80`s were a great time to grow up.

[@jayme69]

I was a big fan of Operation Wolf in the arcades and when it came out on the Atari ST I was blown away. The combination of the ST's graphics and sound capabilities along with mouse control was the perfect storm. I also had it on the Master System and it plays surprisingly well with the control pad as does the version that comes on the Taito Super Pocket handheld console. The ultimate experience is playing Operation Warcade on PSVR with the PS Aim Controller. It's as close to standing in front of an Operation Wolf cabinet as you can get at home (without actually having a cabinet). Great video as always and keep up the awesome work!

[@nomadjock]

When I had it for the C64 I did envy some Amiga and ST Owners as the mouse would have been the better way to play the home port for sure, the joystick was just too slow really.

[@vhsdinosaurgo]

I loved this game in arcades, the lightgun on the cabinet always had a satisfying recoil vibration effect

[@nomadjock]

I did get worried one time when my mate described the feedback as super realistic.... I was thinking to myself " How many times has he shot an Uzi before....."

[@bit-ishbulldog2089]

I was 10 years old when this came out. I've actually just picked up the SEGA Master System version from CEX. I'm collecting SEGA light phaser games. I owned it back in the day. Just re collecting my memories.

[@nomadjock]

Sssh!!! that's probably the same age I was, I would have been nine or ten..... and now it makes me feel really old......

[@thedad7313]

We where real boys back then, no bugger had photo sensitive epilepsy. That cabinet was a thing of legend

[@ricktreas3728]

I begged my parents to play this every time we went to the Safeway in graham Washington!

[@meierb75]

0:49 we must have been about the same age. Luckily, when this game came out, our local skating rink got one of these games and wearing roller skates gave me just enough boost to reach the gun and play.

[@nomadjock]

I had to rely on an upturned milk crate, or empty ginger bottle crate to play game like these.... didn't dampen the enjoyment though.

[@craigjohnson8254]

If you want to find this out in the wild, they have it at Arcade club in Bury and Leeds or the Retrodome in Barnsley

[@nomadjock]

If I am ever down that way on my travels I will be sure to pop in for a game or two :)

[@J45yu456]

Love the content. Keep it up

[@nomadjock]

Cheers mate, I will try :)

[@HamsterXFiles]

I got Operation Wolf at home. Operation Wolf at home=NES version.

[@nomadjock]

TBH I never even knew it got released onto the NES. How was it on that console?

[@joeboo8626]

Had a chance to buy the arcade machine years ago for only $500. I really wish we could get 1up with this, crossbow, etc. Love this game.

[@joeboo8626]

Inplayed this game at the Killeen Mall, TX in 1989. Saw it in a few other places, though.

[@SergeantPsycho]

I first played this as a kid and I just now noticed he's not carrying that POW properly.

[@deadmousyplutaprestige8771]

I picked this cabinet up on offer up for free. It was in horrible condition and missing too much original equipment. I turned it into a mame cab for 950 bucks with over 10k games.

[@nomadjock]

OMG!!! These cabinets are rare these days too from what I have heard, you scored a winner with that my friend :)

[@jamesrashbrook9485]

If I remember right there was a sequel operation thunderbolt with 2 micro Uzi on arcade machine

[@nomadjock]

Well remembered good sir.

[@kramalerav]

Upvoted for the narrator’s Scots burr.

[@nomadjock]

Och aye, cheers mucker.

[@tygrus3495]

Do you know if the true ending is displayed after finishing the game 4 times in a row? This is based on the NES manual (which I presume was replicated from the Arcade). Regards.

[@nomadjock]

I have no idea, but it sounds like a challenge and well worth looking into :)

[@andreasoberg2021]

This was awesome on the Amiga with two mouse. I dont think that is possible still on PC

[@waynelarbalestier]

Loved this and its predecessor operation thunderbolt . I remember it in our local arcade always being used and at times hard to get on. Both games for that matter. There was this Asian lad who kicked ass on it. What a player had he kicked serious ass on double dragon 2 . One of them guys that’s good at everything who you admire and dislike at the same time through jealousy 😂😂😂

[@nomadjock]

I know what you mean, but just occasionally you would always find something you were better at then they were.... and it felt great :)

[@waynelarbalestier]

@@nomadjock yes you are right I was immortal on the original DD. Chase HQ has well

[@plastikpixelz4178]

I swear as a kid there was an operation wolf cartoon and there was an episode with GI Joe, but it doesn't exist lol. Wtf

[@nomadjock]

I swear dude I am the same, I must have had some really vivid dreams as a kid because I swear I remember seeing stuff like that and then finding out it never existed..... Must have been something in the free milk at primary school in the UK.

[@twankistevenson3884]

The Lightgun did work on Operation Thunderbolt on the c64 also not sure about whether it worked on Wolf (had wolf on the Speccy rather than c64 wheras Thunderbolt was C64) and it worked fine if memory serves. Ocean did a good job on the home ports tbf. Was never a huge fan of the arcade as I just found it way too difficult.

[@nomadjock]

It was a challenge, and I agree with the home ports. Ocean did a decent job on the home port, especially was a lot of their movie tie-ins were rubbish like Highlander and Cobra.

[@XOmrfloyd]

My first contact with OW was on Amiga500. It was a blast for me, a miracle, but recently i tried it again on my brand "new" A500. Boy, i need to put away those retro googles. It really aged poorly. :)

[@nomadjock]

I never played it on the Amiga, but I do remember at the time wishing I could have played it on that or the Atari ST as the mouse would have been so much quicker than the joystick.

[@onkelhiphop]

I play the hill out of that game on the Commodore 64

[@nomadjock]

It had its flaws, but with a few mates it was a good laugh still.

[@M0-n-0Sapien]

Reminds me of Rambo for Sega master system

[@nomadjock]

Another great classic which I intend to look back at very soon.

[@VTKC]

you mention serial liars remind me of someone at school who told everyone his dad was in the army and he got shot during the war and the bullet went in the chest and bounced off of one of his ribs.

[@nomadjock]

LOL, It seems everyone had one of those mates growing up.

[@lorenzocabrini]

Sex stages to rescue sex hostages. Gotcha! In any case, wish I had try to arcade. I played this on the Commodore 64 and enjoyed it.

[@nomadjock]

LOL, loved this comment :)

[@deadbydayinblack]

the sad thing is. yeah with mame you can complete it. But I kinda want to go back to those arcade days and complete it with the original hardware. I only got to have this kinda experaince once it was house of the dead and at Glasgow Uni some one had forgot to lock the coin collect hatch. In retro spec? yeah I could have stole the murdercash. But the idea was never even a concept to me. Winning on the cludo quiz machine ...ok. Stealing! naw. BUT puting your hand in and passing £1 coins thru the mechanism and giving yerself 99 credits? acceptable!!!!!!!!!! The drunken feeling of dual wielding shall always be a memmory and its been over 25 years.

[@asleepghoulshow]

Sex prisoners of the war!!? God help them, we must save these poor men RIGHT NOW!! GO GO GO GO!!!!

[@nomadjock]

LOL, I almost cried when I read that comment. I do realise my Scottish accent can be a little thick at times, but still that is one brilliant comment :) Sex Prisoners, as they say in the MIA-POW groups, bring them home or send us back.

[@asleepghoulshow]

​@@nomadjockNever change, you speak magic-english!

[@Seth97993]

I put a lot of money in that game and I had to walk a good way to get to play some gas station in my town

[@nomadjock]

It was a coin muncher in the day for sure. :)

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

you expected an pretty accurate port of OW for the Spectrum? Well, you were the only one None of the millions of Sega Master System owners expected that. You see the Sega Master System is pretty weak compared to the arcade hardware used for ow. If you look at all of the arcade ports on the Master System or any system of that era for that matter you will see a pattern in that the ports were watered down version of the arcade game.

[@nomadjock]

What i really meant to get across was that I was expecting more from the little master system, after all the majority of sprites in the arcade are not animated, nor are the backgrounds but the port still turned out to be an enjoyable game.