{"id":1741,"date":"2025-09-01T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:43:42","slug":"review-operation-%ef%bb%bfnight-strikers-switch-m2-does-it-again-with-this-taito-themed-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/review-operation-%ef%bb%bfnight-strikers-switch-m2-does-it-again-with-this-taito-themed-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Operation \ufeffNight Strikers (Switch) &#8211; M2 Does It Again With This Taito-Themed Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wolf pack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taito may be famous for creating the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/space_invaders\">Space Invaders<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/bubble_bobble\">Bubble Bobble<\/a>, but for a brief period at the close of the 1980s, it became the hottest name in arcades thanks to the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/arcade\/operation_wolf\">Operation Wolf<\/a>, a <strong>Rambo<\/strong>-inspired military shooter with a realistic Uzi strapped to its cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Ported to pretty much every home system of the era, the game was followed by sequels that expanded on the core gameplay but never <em>quite<\/em> achieved the same degree of fame. Fast forward to the present, and emulation specialist M2 has bundled up Wolf with <strong>Operation Thunderbolt<\/strong> and <strong>Space Gun<\/strong> \u2014 and thrown in the utterly superb <strong>Night Striker<\/strong>, a Super Scaler-style shooter inspired by the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/sega_ages_space_harrier\">Space Harrier<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/3d_after_burner_ii\">After Burner<\/a> for good measure \u2014 to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/operation_night_strikers\">Operation Night Strikers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/operation-night-strikers\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolf pack. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}