Operation Wolf (NES) Playthrough

A playthrough of Taito’s 1989 rail-shooter for the NES, Operation Wolf. In this video I play through the entire first loop of the game, winning with the best ending. Operation Wolf, the first in a series of light-gun based shooters from Taito, was originally released in arcades in 1987, and several adaptations were produced between 1988 and 1990 for popular computers and games consoles. The NES cart showed up at the height of the system’s popularity in the United States, and I’m guessing that this is the game that most Americans (or, at the least, those who were into games in the late 80s/early 90s) would associate with the name. Light gun games were popular in the 80s, but most of the successful ones were single-screen affairs that resembled old fashioned shooting galleries. Duck Hunt would be a perfect example. Toward the end of the decade, however, the genre began to evolve as hardware grew more powerful. The games were becoming more cinematic and violent, and in the years