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| Operation Wolf | |
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| Developer(s) | Taito Corporation |
| Publisher(s) | Taito Corporation |
| Year introduced | 1987 |
| Genre(s) | Light gun |
Operation Wolf is a series of four light gun arcade games that were released by Taito Corporation over an eleven-year period between 1987 and 1998.
- Operation Wolf (1987): The series' first title ran on its own dedicated hardware, and saw the player take on the role of Special Forces Operative Roy Adams, who had been sent on a mission to capture six military bases, rescue five trapped hostages at the fifth base, and defend the hostages from attack as they ran to safety.
- Operation Thunderbolt (1988): The second entry in the series was released a year after the initial one and ran on a modified version of Taito's Full Throttle hardware, and saw the players (as two could play this game simultaneously) take on the roles of the returning Special Forces Operative Roy Adams (Player 1) and his new comrade Hardy Jones (Player 2), but this time, they had to take on a terrorist organisation who had hijacked an American passenger aeroplane and were threatening to execute all the trapped hostages on it if their demands to release terrorist prisoners did not get fulfilled within twenty-four hours.
- Operation Wolf 3 (1994): The third entry in the series was released six years after the second one and again ran on its own dedicated hardware, but saw the players take on the roles of two agents codenamed "Hornet" (Player 1) and "Queen Bee" (Player 2) who were sent on a mission by the United Nations Taskforce "Federation for Freedom" to take on a terrorist organisation known as "SKULL" who had overthrown an island and armed themselves with nuclear missiles, and in contrast to the limited amounts of gun ammunition that had been a hindrance for the two previous games, the players now also had unlimited gun ammunition.
- Operation Tiger (1998): The fourth, last title in the series was released four years after the third one and ran on Taito's Power-JC System hardware and once again let two people play it simultaneously, this time taking on the roles of two soldiers sent on a mission to rescue their comrades, steal an enemy helicopter and escape from hostile territory.