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Jackal
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Jackal hands you a jeep and a job: drive behind enemy lines, pick up every prisoner of war you can find, and get them to the rescue helicopter alive. Konami's 1986 arcade run-and-gun, also distributed as Top Gunner, reached the NES in October 1988, and the conversion did more than shrink the cabinet. It rebuilt the arcade's single long mission into six checkpoints, Alpha through Zulu, each capped by a boss, and added new enemies and bosses, including missile-spitting statues and a battleship.
The jeep is what makes it feel different from the era's other top-down shooters. A mounted machine gun handles the foot soldiers while a launcher lobs grenades that crack bunkers, tanks and gun emplacements. Free POWs from enemy buildings, drive them to the landing pad, and once enough reach the chopper your launcher upgrades, all the way to missiles after three steps. Lose a jeep, though, and it drops straight back to basic grenades, so every rescue run carries real stakes. Konami also hid three secret stars, revealed by firing at the right spots: a green one for an extra jeep, a red one that wipes out every enemy on screen, and a flashing one that jumps your weapon straight to maximum power.
The cartridge actually grew out of Final Command: The Red Fortress, a shorter Famicom Disk System release whose stages only scrolled vertically. The NES version expanded it with longer stages, an extra opening checkpoint and prisoners to rescue right through the final stretch, and it has held its place in retrospectives since; IGN ranked Jackal 37th on its list of the top 100 NES games.
The real reason to keep coming back is the co-op. Two players drive at once, one jeep green and one brown, and a second player can jump in mid-game. Splitting duty between clearing the road and ferrying prisoners turns Jackal into a satisfying bit of teamwork, and few NES games capture that couch-side “you take the tank, I'll grab the hostages” energy as well.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Konami
- Genre
- Arcade
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Jackal, also distributed under the title of Top Gunner, is an overhead run-and-gun shooter by Konami released as an arcade video game in 1986. The player must maneuver an armed jeep in order to rescue prisoners of war (POWs) trapped in enemy territory.
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