An Arcade Game So Rare I Know of Two Others! Operation Tiger! Modding the Arcade Board to Play It!
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If you know my channel you know I love obscure games...and it does NOT get much more obscure than Operation Wolf by Taito. It's a classic light gun game (well in reality an X/Y coordinate game but they all fall into the same genre) that runs on CUSTOM Taito 3D silicon. It's the only game released on the board...and its exceedingly rare! Last year I showed it to you via the power of MAME...and after a two year hunt I can finally show it to you as real retro gaming hardware! It's an absolute arcade hidden gem and a video game hidden gem...and a VERY RARE piece of rare gaming hardware.
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Taito made AMAZING 2D games, but their transition to 3D was a little big rougher. Operation Tiger is definitely a janky looking game filled with big chunky pixels and blocky polygonal models...but I LOVE that! Because it was still better than what PS1 / Saturn was putting up visual wise at home! It feels very similar to Time Crisis from Namco mixed with a little bit of Total Vice from Konami and it exists in the Operation Wolf / Operation Thunderbolt series of games. It has everything you want in a lightgun game...fast paced action, challenge, multiple targets...the works. It's retro gaming obscurity at its most obscure! Oh and the soundtrack is from Taito's in house band Zuntata...so you KNOW ITS GOOD!
Plus it runs on the same CPU as the Apple Pippin...and that's just weird!
Consider this an arcade repair video as well...because while its not broken, it does require a lot of work to get done. Way more so that console repair!
Sure its no The House of the Dead from Sega or Time Crisis from Namco...but what can be really?
In this second part I will go over the entire process to convert the boardboard, tear it down, convert it to JAMMA and talk about what makes it run!
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