Operation Wolf

Operation Wolf is a 1987 light gun shooter video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was ported to many home systems. The game was critically and commercially successful. It was one of the highest-grossing arcade games of 1988 and won the Golden Joystick Award for Game of the Year. Operation Wolf popularized military-themed first-person light gun rail shooters and inspired numerous clones, imitators, and others in the genre over the next decade. It spawned three sequels: Operation Thunderbolt (1988), Operation Wolf 3 (1994) and Operation Tiger (オペレーションタイガー) (1998). A remake, Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission, was released in 2023.