Roy Adams

(First Appearance: Operation WOLF)
Those who remember the 80's well are getting old now. They will also remember that, spearheaded by Arnold Schwarzenegger's fantastic Commando, a whole slew of movies hit the screens and big box video market featuring lonesome guys tooling up and taking on armies of men. These behemoth battletanks would be armed to the teeth and would stand stock still, gunning down wave after wave of mercenaries running at firing at them from all directions.

Despite training, these armies would always miss their target and receive the hot steel rain delivered by the unstoppable before them. This scenario was so testosterone building and adrenaline pumping that it was custom designed for videogames.
In 1987, Taito released, no, UNLEASHED Operation WOLF into the arcades. So there was to be no confusion whatsoever what this game would consist of, the awesome intro features a typical "Tool up for war" scene as Green Beret Roy Adams prepares to pump lead into hundreds and hundreds of trained soldiers in a mission to rescue a group of hostages and escort them to safety over the six locations that comprise of the enemy camp.

Adams parachutes into battle and gets to work, systematically making his way through enemy territory, destroying communications, gaining intelligence and freeing the hapless prisoners from the concentration camp. The on-rails style leads me to believe that he is ACTUALLY STRAFING ON FOOT through each location, massacring every single man who dares pop their head up from behind a rock or window.
Adams is so steely that he can bring down armoured cars and helicopters with his Uzi 9mm, he is just so gung-ho unstoppable that I choose to believe he was given a platoon of men to work with him on the mission, but he turned them away because he thought it would be LOLs to go it alone.

Upon reaching the final level, Adams runs alongside the rescue plane gunning down stragglers of the long since defeated force that dared raise a gun barrel in his general direction. The plane takes off and our hero sparks up a cigarette, celebrating a job well done. We are left to imagine him going home to what I believe is some hideaway in Alaska where all he does is hunt animals and bang women until he is called up again to deal with some other terrorist threat.

Roy Adams would return alongside token black sidekick Hardy Jones for the far more insane Operation Thunderbolt. By this time Adams and mastered the art of running forwards as some missions scroll into the screen, he's a pretty adaptable guy.
Adams has not been seen in quite some time, but his legacy remains. A lone soldier, who takes on insurmountable odds single handed and gets the job done with nary a scratch on his person.

When I was Roy Adams, I was a bad-ass, never say die Green Beret, as opposed to what I actually was: a small child sat in front of a portable television waving round one of these: