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Remember when I used to play this game at Hills Department Store. Tick tock, it’s Atari o’clock. Word. I’m definitely the guy you want to save you with a gun, as you can see. Shoot me some terrorists in Operation Wolf, one of the greatest video games ever made.

Basically the best—oh! Don’t shoot the nurses. What if the nurses deserve to be shot though What if they’re bad nurses We don’t know. They could be naughty nurses. I’ll cut that out in a minute. I will rescue the hostages, but only the hostages that deserve it. Which is none of them. So they’re probably all going to die horribly screaming. Dumbass hostages.

What’s the greatest arcade cabinet ever created Well, it’s hard to top this one. Taito’s 1987 testosterone‑fueled, action‑packed masterpiece. It’s Operation Wolf.

No game will make you feel like Rambo more than Operation Wolf. Stay down. I love how you lean into the Uzi on the cabinet and just feel the game. It kicks and it sucks you into the 80s. It’s like you’re living inside Predator or Commando or Robocop. It’s the best built‑in arcade gun I’ve ever seen, and the entire game seems to be a love letter to it. And it plays well too. It’s a lot of fun.

I rescue hostages, but what I’m really here for is to meet the nurses. I guess what I mean is to shoot them. I should point out though that it’s not a violent game. No real humans were shot during the making of this review, though many beers were sacrificed. So a big thanks to my friend Mike from Pittsburgh. Thanks for letting me hang out in your arcade and drink beer and play Operation Wolf. This is what it’s all about.

Taito ported Operation Wolf to a bunch of other systems like the NES and the Master System, but the arcade version is the one you want. The Vectrex version is… well, it doesn’t exist, but if it did, it would probably be terrible. The arcade version is frantic. You need the gun. You need the cabinet. You need the whole thing shaking while you’re screaming “Get some!” and “Get to the chopper!” at the screen.

Enemies come at you nonstop. Soldiers, helicopters, trucks, grenades, roller‑skating idiots who somehow wandered into a war zone. You shoot ammo crates, you shoot health crates, you shoot everything. The gun even looks cool. It’s like a plastic Uzi that survived a nuclear blast.

I have liberated many ounces of beer during this review, so I would say I’ve done my job well. I just want to point out that if I had a robot exoskeleton this game would be over already. I’ve murdered everyone.

So what are you people waiting for Get up off your ass and find an Operation Wolf arcade game. You’re welcome. Thanks again to my friend Mike, and thank you to Taito for creating this unforgettable masterpiece. A love letter to the 80s and a love letter to accidentally shooting people on roller skates who are dumb enough to roller skate through the middle of a combat zone.

Hostages are safe. We need to mount the GoPro on this thing. PBR camera, hopefully right here in the shot. Save the hostage.

First time I ever did that. She’s not dead. The gun’s the best part of this. Nothing else has a gun like this.

Stupid kid. Who wears a yellow hat with a blue shirt.

Wait, did I just make it through level three You did? You’ve never been—no. Really Yeah. Yeah.

Same thing. Playing together. We could be friends. We could just hang out and watch Predator and drink beer together. Sorry, but you are finished. Apology not accepted. Haha, jackass. I’ll show you.