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Operation Wolf was an addictive retro journey through a hail of bullets and explosions!  Growing up, there was always an abundance of arcade games available to play.  Locally there was usually an arcade machine in the chip shop and there was at least two arcades in the city centre which had a small cult following. Trips to the seaside or beach always had that cold weather safety net of the amusements. So finding something to play on was never a big problem. There much to amuse us and we were lucky with the choices we had in our youth. There was the Street Fighter game series. Mortal Kombat had just appeared on the scene and the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles arcade game offered an engrossing multi-player game experience. But the one arcade game that I made a beeline for was Operation Wolf. This shoot em up involved a mounted rifle with the ability to launch grenades at enemy fighters and mechanized threats such as helicopters. It was a single player ...

The vintage game Afterburner was a classic of the arcades in the late 1980's.  Although not directly tied into the movie Top Gun, it's likely that much of its success could be attributed to the wave of popularity and interest that occurred around the films release. Afterburner was a game that saw conversations to the home console and computer market. But at the time it was unable to recreate the full Afterburner experience. Partly due to inferior graphics present in the domestic machines and missing the gyroscope chair that was offered  to give the player the full 360 air combat experience. The game in the arcades was pretty much impossible to replicate properly yet software houses were unwilling to miss out on the lucrative market that the arcade machine opened up. The Arcade Version Screen Shot. Afterburner was released on several Sega consoles and from 1989 through to 2006, many versions of the game were released. Afterburner was available ...