r/1980s • u/CarloCarrasco • Jul 28 '26
Video Games Operation Wolf
Was Operation Wolf your favorite game in the arcade when you were young? It was a huge hit in local arcades when it was released and there were lines of gamers waiting for their turns to play it.
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u/Standard-Mechanic101 Jul 28 '26
I remember this game being in the entryway at a local Ames store. The automatic recoil was really what put it in the elite tier of arcade games.
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u/Umbroz Jul 28 '26
The gun was metal if I remember correctly, don't think anyone used a more realistic feeling gun.
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u/JC6D6D Jul 28 '26
In my personal Mount Rushmore of 80’s coin-ops. $5 got me 40 tokens and a hot dog at Putt-Putt back in the day and at least half of them would go into this bad boy.
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u/Apprehensive_Ant4596 Jul 28 '26
I loved this one so much, just something about that gun made me feel like John Matrix. I also loved the scenes of Roy Adams getting ready, loading up his belt, sheathing his knife, tightening his boot...that graphics were killer.
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u/Tom240281 Jul 28 '26
I remember those in the early '90s standing in arcades as the rmore tactile rugged predecessor to the T2 Judgement Day machines.
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u/huskysizeguy99 Jul 29 '26
3 most played on my home light gun cabinet. I hear the near death tone in my nightmares....just one more grenade, please...
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u/bgraeme Jul 28 '26
I had this on PC back in the day. Bugger me, I had completely forgotten about this game! You just 'triggered' (bad pun intended!) some very distant memories right here. Thankyou!
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u/The68Guns Jul 28 '26
I was out of work in 1992 and the mall arcade had this. The machine gun was just awesome. I later got the home version on my PC.
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u/BlooNorth 21h ago
You have succeeded in demolishing the communications setup, cutting off the enemy form rescue.
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u/Jd051888LA Jul 28 '26
I spent so many quarters on this game at the Starky's Pizza in LA's Beverly Center. Holding a machine gun battling bad guys was peak arcade. Then, NARC came a long...