Retro Arcade: Jackal - Completion on 1 Credit (741100 pts)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- A full run of Konami's Jackal completed on one credit with default settings - normal difficulty, 3 lives with bonuses at 30k and 150k - using MAME. Also, the maximum number of hostages (8) were dropped off at all 8 pick-up zones.
I was totally inspired by this video from RetroGameDemos: • Video who achieved a frankly heroic effort by completing Jackal using only keyboard controls. I had a gamepad and used MAME's inbuilt autofire, and still found this brutally difficult. It took me over 3 and a half months of playing nearly every day just to get my first completion, and another week to beat RGD's completion score. All credit to him.
One thing to note, which I had never seen before until this run: there's a suicidal tank in the top right corner that just blows itself up at around the 13:37 mark. I certainly appreciated the gesture.
Jackal (aka Top Gunner - US, aka Tokushu Butai Jackal - Japan) is a 1986 top-down shoot 'em up. The jeep you control fires a north facing-only chain gun and can also fire off grenades, which can be ultimately upgraded to a missile with a 4-way explosion. In this arcade version, enemies can take shots at you without even appearing on screen, and the fully upgraded missile is pretty much a must for some heavily defended areas.
Jackal had a number of ports, of which the NES version is probably the most fondly remembered. I always loved the arcade version for the music and the difficulty, but admittedly the ending is something of an anti-climax.
This was a direct avi capture from MAME+ v0.143.
![Jackal Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y6nyv6da-Bw/mqdefault.jpg)
![Jackal Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](/img/tr.png)
![Jackal / 特殊部隊ジャッカル (1986) NES - 2 Players [TAS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AsSk8j1Ap_4/mqdefault.jpg)
![1985 [60fps] Motos 2021600pts ALL](/img/n.gif)
Anyone who ever played this game, remembers how difficult it was to master the slight angle you need to have your jeep when you dropped off the prisoners so your rockets would hit the random jet flying by.
It's amazing how many extra people can fit into the Jeep truck when under the stress of war. Jackal is a classic.
In the NES version you could fit 16 people in there, as opposed to eight. The thing was a Clown Car.
Played this so many times as a kid. Never could finish the mission. Glad to finally see it done.
Same for me, played this in the arcade but never saw the ending. Think I made it up to the black cliffs part (about 15 mins into this video) but that's it. Very hard game but this guy is making it look easy, it aint.
Love this game and played A LOT on Arcades and Nes, later. I'm 43 years old and, in fact, still play a lot on emulators! Your video is inspiring in the continuous search for a high score! Congratulations!
Ah so fun memories in the arcades.
So many lost coins.
Wow. I had no idea this was an arcade game until now.
I used to love this game at the Arcade, called Top Gunners in the US. Never seen a 1CC of it. Impressive, especially since you played the version where you can turn the guns with the rotary joysticks.
1986 was also the year a movie called Top Gun was released in theaters, and could be confused. When this game was ported to the US NES in 1988, it was renamed Jackal, since Konami also released a game based on the movie.
Ironically, Exidy (Spectar, Mouse Trap, Venture, Pepper II) also had an arcade game called Top Gunner, also released in 1986.
Would love this game in a collection with its console parts too. Kanomi had a lot of great arcade games.
A true gamer.
Legend!
this game reminds me so much of Choplifter but in a Jeep lol 😆, great memories playing this as a child
Welcome Back!
I was a marine and this game is a pretty good depiction of what I did for our country.
Great job! ♥
Wow I had no idea they had Jackal on the arcade. I thought it was just an NES game.
Nor did any of us believe it was called Top Gunner, since in 1986 it had two things going for it: the film Top Gun, and Exidy's arcade game also called Top Gunner.
Yup, many home games on the NES were Arcade Games 1st.
Super Mario Bros, Bubble Bobble, Contra, Punch-Out, Ninja Gaiden, Track N' Field, Excite Bike, Trog, Tecmo Bowl, Double Dragon, Donkey Kong just to name a few.
Thank Goodness for M.A.M.E. for whenever I feel nostalgic.
Great job.
Yeah, it has been my dream to finish this since 1989.
There’s still time
My dad was really into this game and when he beat it, he was saddened by the lack of story or even a splash screen. He went home and sodomized myself and my younger brother he was so angry. My mom tried to stop him, but he slapped her and threw her up against the kitchen wall. I hate this game.
Commando in a Jeep!
I didn't know you could shoot the plane dropping bombs on you as you drop the soldiers off! 😊
I remember that game on the Nintendo entertainment system
I though that's where it started
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Pretty sad that the NES version has a better ending.
Hey Hamster! How's about some Jackal?
No big tank boss in the end?
Dans la version NES
does the machingun fire just in "that" vertical direction?? it's too bad! Or had this game a rotative joystick to changel the machingun direction?
it fires just in that vertical direction
@@danielhochedlinger2831 it's too bad. Thanks too much btw
mmmmm prefiero la version que salio para el Nes, la siento con mucho mas avance, como mas viva... ademas la pelea contra el tanque final es de lo mas jodido que yo he podido ver en cuanto a una curva de dificultad que se eleva bien feo de la nada xD
Not all of them made it home...
What kind of game controller are you using with this game?
I think xbox controller because it works good with emulator
Excelente juego
La bestia parda
Es un gran juego pero muy difícil de llegar al final
My record score is 771600
Need a switch port email hamster corporation like me to see if theyll bring it over to arcade archives!
11.08 the Hog !!!!
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Ok
24:18
Version nes this is best
Awful version! nearly unplayable cuz the jeep moves so damn slow!! The NES is 1 million times than this crap
Castlevania: Better on NES
Ninja Gaiden (Tecmo): Better on NES
Jackal: Better on NES
Gradius: Better on NES
Salamander: Better on NES
Contra: Better on NES
Konami sure sucked at the arcade, they only knew how to make console games during the 80's
No. Lol 😆
The machine gun pattern is not natural are you using autofire or something ?