Taito may be famous for creating the likes of Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble , but for a brief period at the close of the 1980s, it became the hottest name in arcades thanks to the release of Operation Wolf , a Rambo -inspired military shooter with a realistic Uzi strapped to its cabinet.

Ported to pretty much every home system of the era, the game was followed by sequels that expanded on the core gameplay but never quite achieved the same degree of fame. Fast forward to the present, and emulation specialist M2 has bundled up Wolf with Operation Thunderbolt and Space Gun — and thrown in the utterly superb Night Striker , a Super Scaler-style shooter inspired by the likes of Space Harrier and After Burner for good measure — to create Operation Night Strikers .

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