Arcade Longplay [227] Operation Wolf 

I'm here because AVGN wouldn't show this game in his latest video.

Brace yourselves, the AVGN army is coming.

AVGN wasn't wrong, I don't even have epilepsy, and this is still unbearable.

I was curious after the new AVGN episode. The flickering isnt that bad but only for short playing sessions.

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.

No wonder why avgn doesn't wanted to Show it

The INTRO in this game is beautiful,it represents the entire philosophy of the 80's

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

Wow, AVGN wasn't kidding...

I love the fact that everyone came over here from AVGN's review of Taito Legends. Amazing lol

"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!

This guy sure doesn't believe in using his rockets.

Came from AVGN. I had a seizure.

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.

A timeless classic wich even after 30 years is still great. Imagine how shocking this game would,ve be in 1987.

i remember feeling impressed with the graphics.

I always like the 'death' where it says "Since you have no ammunition left. You must join the hostages"

*Taito* will never be the same again... _Thanks AVGN._

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.

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..."

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?

I'm here after AVGN refused to show gameplay of this because the flashing has a serious seizure risk. And yeah. It fucking does

THIS GAME MAKES ME WANT TO GO OUTSIDE AND help old ladies across the street ;)

Blowing up an APC with a short burst from a 9mm (or .45) submachine gun? Why not?

I could never get past the 2nd level as a kid. I would be amazed at the adults playing it tho, they beat it and i'd have dreams about that afterwards.

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".

I remember loving this game back in the arcade days! Never EVER had any problems with the flashes

This brings back memories of playing this in the arcade on Llandudno pier in the 80's. Good times.

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

i can't wait for this to skyrocket in views because of avgn.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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 don't think the flashing could induce seizures but it is hard on the eyes after a few seconds.

AVGN wasnt kidding. This game constant flickering and light flashing can causing seizures

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

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 dont have epilepsy but this made my head hurt. AVGN saved lots of people a headhache

Brings me back to the days when I actually went to arcades on base as a kid

I should have listened to AVGN. My head hurts now after only 15 minutes watching it ... WOW!

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"

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.

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 wanna know what kind of gun he's using that can take a tank down in 6 bullets

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ This game flashes in 0.1 second which shows the bright cyan screen entirely at the moment of shooting any projectile weapon; This is the pre-1998 game (i.e. before the screen law ban the flashy screen). If anyone watch this gameplay or play this game, please stop watching this endlessly flashy game if you have any seizure or epilepsy attack.

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

Yeah blue and red together would cause seizure. Thanks james.

*Last level in the airport is nail-biting.* *Splended! A winner is you.*

I love how you have blatant disregard for the Geneva convention.

I would play this game in a grocery store! Man this brings back memories!

SPLENDED! YOU ARE A REAL PRO. - The President.

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.

best part when you got the Gatling machine gun!

Inolvidables parece mentira que hallan pasado mas de 30 años llevare estos lindos recuerdos siempre. Gracias Amigos

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.

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"

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.

God, this game takes me back to when I believed America could win wars. All this damage by 1 guy w an Uzi

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!

here from AVGN

Jeez, AVGN wasn't exaggerating about the screen flashing. Good call, James.

Seizures promoted by AVGN!

My eye genuinely started tearing up at that bright light. Wtf.

The first gun game in arcade I every saw or played.I remember the line up waiting for this game only.

Damn, James wasn't kidding. That's pretty awful. My eyes hurt after watching that.

This brings back so many fond memories!! ❤

The arcade gun was awesome with the little red middle button on the left side

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.

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.

This machine was really common during it’s time. I remember seeing it all the time but didn’t play it that often.

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.

This game was fucking awesome! I used to play it like crazy on the arcade then I had the NES port.

Let off some steam, Bennett.

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 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.

AVGN was right, I had at least 37 seizures watching this.

If you pause the video after seeing a flash and use the period and comma keys to move frame-by-frame, you'll find the entire screen flashes a fullscreen baby blue color for one frame. "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!" - AVGN

I remember playing this on the NES! Good times. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent gameplay :) the Cabinet of this game it was something unheard

16:59 That would never happen to John Rambo.

Nobody cares why you are here. In '87 Operation Wolf on an 80486DX @ 16Mhz was mind blowing....

Girl in a bikini and heels just running through the jungle. Totally normal.

Not picking up the energy boosts gave me high blood pressure

I only ever had enough lunch money to play the first level after school.

If you pause the video at the right moment, then you can freeze on the gunfire flash, which is a solid turquoise rectangle.

that 2nd level on round 2 is insanely difficult, I have this on taito classics ps 2 , play it weekly, I didn't think my score of 417k was much good, but after seeing this, im doing ok on it,great collection taito legends, never get tired of playing these..nice score btw

God, this must've been way less unbearable in the arcades. I *used to have* epilepsy but this still hurts to look at

This soldier uses a KaBar knife , thats a nice detail.

I wish 1up would make a mini arcade for shooters, if they had an op wolf cabinet I would buy it in a heartbeat.

At 1:25, you can’t tell me he didn’t intentionally waste those two nurses lol. He took a first shot at them which missed, but then comes back for the kill shot.

Is this Chuck Norris playing this game? Geez.

I like how the next loop changes the atmosphere from daylight to dusk. I wonder if a 3rd loop goes to night.

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.

this was the best thing ever to my 11 or 12 year old self.

16:00 = Killed In Action. 16:39 = Court-Martialed, Tried and Found Guilty of War Crimes. 16:54 = Forced Into Submission, *CAPTURED* , Tried, Found Guilty of Violating a foreign country's sovereignty and sent to the Concentration Camp with the 5 hostages within. A typical Missing In Action aka Prisoner Of War case.

I wasted a lot of money on this game in the arcades. Whenever we went to some theme park on a trip with our school, mom gave me 5 bucks to buy an icecream or something but it always ended up in the Operation Wolf machine :-P