Step into the neon-lit chaos of Operation Night Strikers, a turbo-charged time capsule of 80s arcade warfare. This explosive compilation doesn’t just revive four genre-defining classics, it straps you into the cockpit of nostalgia and hits warp speed. From the gritty hostage rescues of Operation Wolf to the synth-drenched hovercraft chases of Night Striker, each mission pulses with CRT glow and joystick fury. Whether you’re blasting mutants in deep space or storming jungle compounds, Operation Night Strikers delivers an in-depth plunge into the golden age of shoot ’em ups, now with save states, filters, and leaderboard bragging rights.

Operation Night Strikers Review Pros

• Awesome original graphics. 
• Download size. 
• Own in-game achievements, and they pop up when earned. 
• Joycon mouse support with a sensitivity slider and you can remap the buttons. 
• The Gadgets menu has options for – stage info, hit rate, HP info, weapons info, rank/game version, and music info. 
• Autosave can be set on or off. 
• Leaderboard support and settings for if your score and rank are displayed, and ranking registration type (off/suspend/on). 
• Screen settings – type (pixel perfect/fit to screen/full/mini), smooth settings, scan lines, four wallpaper choices, including none, and boundary effects. 
• Three control types – dual controller no gyro, dual controller left is gyro, and dual controller right is gyro. 
• Four Crosshair choices with one being no Crosshair. 
• You can choose if achievements earned pop up in-game or after the level. 
• Invert stick options – off, vertically, horizontally, and Invert all. 
• You can remap the controls for all the buttons. 
• Four games in one – Operation Wolf, Operation Thunder Bolt, Night Striker, and Space Gun. 
• Overall menu you can bring up at any time to – save, load, options, rankings, game manual, achievements, and reset the game. 
• The controls are solid and well implemented, the left sick glides across the screen and works so well it’s better than aiming with the Joycon itself. 
• Gyro aiming gives you the real arcade feel, if your lighting doesn’t suck and mess up the calibration constantly. 
• On rails light gun gameplay. 
• Tutorials are the game manuals. 
• Four game difficulties – Easy, Normal, Hard and Hardest. 
• Game style – Wired light gun or fixed light gun. 
• Attract sound settings. 
• Magazine size and whether continues are on or off. 
• Sound volumes – game, and menu sounds slider, cabinet sounds (button presses), cabinet sound volume slider, and gyro reset tone. 
• Each game has a manual that is a page of controls for each type, and then colour images and text showing everything. 
• Lightning-fast loading times. 
• You can go back to the start menu and select a different game. 
• Operation Wolf and Space Gun games has different versions and they are – JP, US, JP easy, and US easy. 
• Night Striker has three versions – JP, World, and EU. 
• Operation Thunderbolt has six versions – JP, US, JP mini, US mini, JP easy, and US easy. 
• Replay theatre for each game, and they have 8 slots. 
• The borders in each game show off a lot of the art, or the options you picked in the menus. 
• Awesome artwork and text cutscenes. 
• To keep it authentic, you have an insert coins button. 
• A lot of love and respect have gone into this collection. 
• Each game has a rolling demo of gameplay when left idle. 
• It’s so good to see a game like this again, with its low-quality voice work and bare minimum fancy gimmicks. 
• Space Gun is another on rails light gun game, except it’s a Sci fi space game. Aliens will come at you and you can shoot limbs off, they can explod,e and bits of them will hit and slide off the screen, you have a tracker like in the Alien films that beeps and shows red dots for enemies, you can get power ups and ammo, save humans and choose your own path at branching paths. 
• Fiendishly addictive, now it’s now real money, I can crank that credits button! I’m virtually rich! 
• Each game has 3 autosave slots and 16 manual save slots. 
• It’s a small thing that tickled me, but each game has its own little animated avatar from the game on the loading screens and prompts. 
• Test fire option on each game lets you try out settings and changes before playing. 
• After pausing, you get a ready screen to ease you back in. 
• Night Striker is a game where you are controlling a ship and can fly all around the screen on a rolling road, shooting at enemies. It has power ups, survivors, et,c but it’s a game more like a Space Harrier. 
• You can configure games to do rapid fire, and it what increments so like 5,7.5,10 etc and you can assign an increasing number aiming speed button. 
• Out of the box, every game but Night Striker let’s you hold down the button to shoo,t and it auto reloads the gun. 
• All of the game but Night Striker, is a first-person view. As said Night striker is a ship in the third person view. 
• Operation Thunderbolt has drop in and out local co op play. 
• Each game has there own unique HUD, and they look really cool but also serve a lor of information, you can never read it because you are too busy shooting, but a passerby could tell you interesting things. 
• An excellent slice of retro goodness. 

Operation Night Strikers Review Cons

• Each game has chargeable DLC for the different versions. Operation Wolf has FC ver, NE ver, and Master System DLC, Night Striker has Mega CD ver DLC, Operation Thunder Bolt has SN ver DLC, and Space Gun has the Sega Master System ver DLC. 
• Shooting the pickups in Operation Thunderbolt is really hard, as they are so small. 
• Night Striker is a game that plays so differently from the others that it almost feels out of place in the collection. 
• Some concept art of arcade cabinet art would have been awesome. 

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Operation Night Strikers

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Developer: M2 Co., Ltd.

Publisher: TAITO Corporation, Clear River Games

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