Operation Thunderbolt is a game that uses the SNES mouse! Not a whole lot of those out there, huh? Off-hand I can only think of Mario Paint.. ^.^; I mean, I know there are others, like this one, but I just don't know what they are!
It's also a game about shooting lots of people who have done bad things! Like, really. That's pretty much all you do. It's one of those games like Lethal Enforcers where a lot of bad guys pop up and you have to shoot them before they shoot you, as well as their projectiles and bombs and stuff. In fact.. *shuffles through notes* Yup! It was indeed an arcade game to start with. And..is apparently loosely based on a real counter-terrorist operation.. o.o; Huh.
As for the game itself though.. The music was okay! I don't really recall anything memorable either for good or bad reasons, so..just kinda middle ground, I guess! The visuals were kinda the same way, too. It didn't look bad, it just wasn't anything special, either.
Where it suffered most I think is just the playing of it.. ^.^; Being a mouse-gun game, the gameplay was pretty repetitive and...not fun. It was okay to start with, kinda difficult in some levels, not so much so in others, but then when I hit level four and had to start rescuing hostages... It was just the worst. Because the hostages were the worst ever! They would come out of the doorway you shot open and just run around back and forth slooooooowly moving towards the edge of the screen. And almost always a bunch of bad guys would come up behind them, so I had no choice but to take damage! It just left a really bad taste in my mouth.. I know a lot of these kinda games have innocent people you're not supposed to shoot, but I've never seen one where they are as horribly frustrating as this one.
So this was mostly just a sour experience, I think. Once again I can't bring myself to say the game was bad, it just wasn't that great!
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