Operation Wolf

Operation Wolf
Operation Wolf
	North American arcade flyer
Developer	Taito
Publisher	Taito
Platform	Arcade NES, Master System, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, FM Towns, PC Engine;
Release	October 1987 Arcade JP/EU: October 1987; NA: December 1987; Amiga, CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum EU: October 8, 1988; NES JP: March 31, 1989; NA: March 1989; EU: 1992; Master System EU: 1990; ;
Genre	Light gun shooter
Mode	Single-player

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, becoming one of the highest-grossing arcade games of 1988 and winning 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), and the remake Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission (2023).