I came back to this game as an adult and realized it's more about screen management than anything else. Definitely on the easier side if you don't blindly move the screen vertically without clearing enemies as you go. For the final battle if you stay near the stairs and juke back and forth, you can lock the boss into moving between positions where it can't hit you.
Gradius 2 in Famicom was also nerfed in difficulty while adding its own difficulty, some bosses loses their bullet Hell BS but to compensate making the stages harder (For one, the final boss has an attack for a change)
Blasting POWs from their cabins and rushing them to the drop zone always gave me great Choplifter vibes. This was one awesome Christmas present from Grandpa I'll always cherish.
In the arcade version, your jeep only allowed you to rescue eight people at a time; this meant after you picked up the eighth hostage, an alert saying "FULL" will show up and this means having to skip some hostages before the nearest heliport, especially if you're looking for one or two to boost your power-up. While the NES version allowed your jeep to seat an unlimited number of prisoners, sacrifices were also made regarding points awards. No points were awarded for initially saving hostages -- when dropping them off at a heliport, each one was a constant 500 points; the final tally for each stage, except the last, is 2,000 points for each hostage saved. In the arcade version, initially saving a hostage was 400 points, and dropping them off at the heliport had a much larger points award chain: 1st hostage saved: 100 points 2nd hostage saved: 200 points 3rd hostage saved: 400 points 4th hostage saved: 1,000 points 5th hostage saved: 2,000 points 6th hostage saved: 5,000 points 7th hostage saved: 10,000 points 8th hostage saved: 20,000 points Completing this chain successfully also upgraded your power-up in the arcade version. While the arcade version had four power-up level strengths, the NES version reduced this by one.
I don’t remember ever playing this game when I had a physical NES. But I do remember playing it on the early NES emulators and loving it! It’s a game that I always felt deserved some kind of modern upgrade.
Wow! I am quite surprised that you managed to rescue all the POWs and get them to safety in helicopters, all without getting blown up or any loss of a POW. My brothers used to play this game when we were little, and we found out the hard way, even with a Game Genie on! Brings back memories. :)
just beat this. pretty tough, but fair. found a safe spot on the last boss on my last life. i did have another continue, but no way i wanted to start that level over. pretty great game!
My best friend and I always used to argue what made it do that. I said it was supposed to be that whatever surface they were driving in is bumpy. He’d say that it was like cartoons with old cars, animated to shake in various directions to indicate it was running. Granted we were both five so the reasoning wasn’t really verbose and there was a lot of “nuh-uh”s and “yuh-huh”s but the logic was there. Pretty cool how just a little variation in animation makes a sprite “feel” real enough for little kids to insult one another over.
I hear you man! Me too👍 I love watching this guys games! Next best thing to olaying them and in some cases just as fun. Zeld 2 adventures of link come to mind here!!😁👍
Fun fact: It's actually possible to destroy the final boss tank's machine gun turret separately before killing the tank itself, but it's very hard to land the grenades/missiles on target that most times it's just not worth the time spent trying. XD
This was the perfect game in terms of difficulty for me. It wasn't easy to beat, it wasn't too hard as long as you get some practice. Took decent amount of time to beat it. Worth every penny. Great game.
Fantastic playthrough! What I learned from U Can Beat Video Games is that if you've got the lives to burn, you can machine gun the final tank and take it down quicker. I just re-watched the ScrewAttack Video Game Vault review of this... Just shameful that Handsome Tom and his partner resorted to cheating! And the former claimed the machine gun "Only shoots straight up" when it fires from the sides of the jeep. When I play this, there won't be any cheating. I'll practice, practice, practice and become so skilled I could drive circles around enemies!
Thanks! This is one I learned quite well in my younger years. It's so damned fun! I had no idea the machine gun could even damage the tank. Why is it shameful that they cheated? I haven't seen that video. Were they claiming that they weren't when they were or something? He's right about the machine gun, though. No matter which angle you're facing, the gun will always shoot straight up the screen.
Considering Silent Scope 2, the Gunner of the Jeep might have been the one framed for a crime he didn't commit, causing him to ultimately be sent as a co-sniper for Falcon under extreme scrutiny because yeah, convict even if he didn't actually commit the crime.
A clear case where the USA NES version is the winner, not to mention much more complete. The FDS version, which was released first in Japan, feels like a scaled down port.
Yep, unlike the Castlevania II port they had (Dracula II: The Accursed Seal), which had different sound channels that, I read, did not make the tunes heard in that version better than in ours (especially "Bloody Tears").
Yeah, the Japanese version is fun, but iirc the entire first level is missing. There's no horizontal scrolling, either, so all the stages are really skinny and tall.
The map places you at the level you just completed was a glitch. It was supposed to place you at the next level. I never understood the tornado in the background LOL
Jackal is truly a Konami classic for the console, I remember it used to be pretty cheap CIB a couple years ago but things always change. I enjoy the game obviously attempts for creative level design and don't fearing these amusing stuff happening from level 1 to the end. YEEEEAH!
This game REALLY deserves a remake or at least a remaster. It’s a real masterpiece.
One was planned during the Wii era as one of Konami's Rebirth games but it got canceled.
@@TheDutchGhost so sad it didn’t come 😔
@@Papayap0drida That and many other potential Rebirth games as Konami has quite a catalog of old games.
Play Renegade ops bro. You'll love it, it's just like this
Try jackal squad now on play store is the remake
I’m 48 years old, I still find myself humming the music to this game.
You'll need a pocket full of miracles, and the ferocity of a wild jackal. This battle will make your blood boil.
Ok
Beleza
Algun dia vou tentar zerar esse jogo
Talvez no meu celular ou no meu Sup2 / portatil
"Oh, I bet. I'm trying to play it with the POWER GLOVE!"
--James Rolfe
I agree👍
Yeahhhhhhhh! Beating this game and with limited continues is no joke! But this game is brutal, fun and short
After this Impressive Quote , Blood Boiling BGM plays 😍😘
this is probably the only arcade port on the NES with a perfectly balanced difficulty. Not overly hard, not boringly easy.
I honestly think the nes version is way better than the arcade version, drastically different too!
I came back to this game as an adult and realized it's more about screen management than anything else. Definitely on the easier side if you don't blindly move the screen vertically without clearing enemies as you go.
For the final battle if you stay near the stairs and juke back and forth, you can lock the boss into moving between positions where it can't hit you.
Gradius 2 in Famicom was also nerfed in difficulty while adding its own difficulty, some bosses loses their bullet Hell BS but to compensate making the stages harder (For one, the final boss has an attack for a change)
This is the very first game I’ve ever played on NES when I was seven years old. Oh my God this is my childhood I freaking love it.
I never questioned how they fit so many people in 1 jeep. lol
Funniest man..cheers from philippines 😂
"Here?"
Still makes me giggle today. Underappreciated Konami gem of a game.
And when they go back to saying 'yea!' its because they know its the right way due to the trail of destruction they are leaving again.
One of my favorite NES games. And it kills me the enemy doesn't notice this random helipad in the middle of everything
This battle may make my blood boil, and I may need a pocketful of miracles, but it is a great game.
The ending theme song of this game is so beautiful. It always get stuck in my head. What a classic game
Blasting POWs from their cabins and rushing them to the drop zone always gave me great Choplifter vibes. This was one awesome Christmas present from Grandpa I'll always cherish.
In the arcade version, your jeep only allowed you to rescue eight people at a time; this meant after you picked up the eighth hostage, an alert saying "FULL" will show up and this means having to skip some hostages before the nearest heliport, especially if you're looking for one or two to boost your power-up.
While the NES version allowed your jeep to seat an unlimited number of prisoners, sacrifices were also made regarding points awards. No points were awarded for initially saving hostages -- when dropping them off at a heliport, each one was a constant 500 points; the final tally for each stage, except the last, is 2,000 points for each hostage saved. In the arcade version, initially saving a hostage was 400 points, and dropping them off at the heliport had a much larger points award chain:
1st hostage saved: 100 points
2nd hostage saved: 200 points
3rd hostage saved: 400 points
4th hostage saved: 1,000 points
5th hostage saved: 2,000 points
6th hostage saved: 5,000 points
7th hostage saved: 10,000 points
8th hostage saved: 20,000 points
Completing this chain successfully also upgraded your power-up in the arcade version. While the arcade version had four power-up level strengths, the NES version reduced this by one.
My little brother and I would play this for hours and hours. We both just loved this game as kids.
The 80s were the days. This game brings back memories😎👍
Fun game played in the past.
That jeep must be like the TARDIS, small on the outside, large inside, to carry all those people.
Yeah, the arcade had a limit of 8 passengers besides the driver and gunner, any more had to wait for a trip back.
I remember whistling some of the theme songs, especially the victory theme song. I love that one!!!!
One of the greatest 2 player and rotational stick games ever next to Ikari Warriors and Smash T.V.
Konami has always made great games this one was a all time favorite...
Pure nostalgia. Finished this back in the day but haven't given it a good run to finish it in a long time - this inspires me to though!
I love this game so much. I always play this game with my sister!
We need this on Nintendo online
I remmeber this game from when I was a kid, loved it. NES classic.
Not every day you see a old school game where you can kill the enemy by touching them (instead of vice versa).
A lovely ode to vehicular homicide.
I don’t remember ever playing this game when I had a physical NES. But I do remember playing it on the early NES emulators and loving it!
It’s a game that I always felt deserved some kind of modern upgrade.
Games like this and others don’t get old.
The sound effects and music are stellar. Love this game
My brother and I use to play this pretty often.
Wow! I am quite surprised that you managed to rescue all the POWs and get them to safety in helicopters, all without getting blown up or any loss of a POW. My brothers used to play this game when we were little, and we found out the hard way, even with a Game Genie on! Brings back memories. :)
just beat this. pretty tough, but fair. found a safe spot on the last boss on my last life. i did have another continue, but no way i wanted to start that level over. pretty great game!
Save the troops! Blow up everything! Goodness, the soundtrack when you're playing this game Co-op...so beautiful
From the makers of Metal Gear (Konami), here's another war masterpiece of 80s n 90s ❤
I used to think the little jeep you play as is really funny. All it does is move up and down but it really feels like there's an engine in there.
My best friend and I always used to argue what made it do that. I said it was supposed to be that whatever surface they were driving in is bumpy. He’d say that it was like cartoons with old cars, animated to shake in various directions to indicate it was running. Granted we were both five so the reasoning wasn’t really verbose and there was a lot of “nuh-uh”s and “yuh-huh”s but the logic was there.
Pretty cool how just a little variation in animation makes a sprite “feel” real enough for little kids to insult one another over.
Heck yes, one of my most favorite Konami games. Even Stage 3/6 soundtrack is superb.
I loved this game as a kid. time flies
This brings back so many memories
This game reminds me about my grandpa, we play together when I was a kid. I miss him everyday.
Great co-op game, one of my favourites from the NES era. Other than that... it's short and sweet, as the phrase goes!
One of my childhood favorites! I mean, I was never good at it, but it was still one of my favorites!
I hear you man! Me too👍 I love watching this guys games! Next best thing to olaying them and in some cases just as fun. Zeld 2 adventures of link come to mind here!!😁👍
@goduskychris Chris Godusky Nice! I forgot the name of the store but I believe I rented it also. Those are some fun memories!
Great game. I loved it as a kid
Konami was on fire back then.
I loved Jackal and Silkworm.
One of my favorite games ever !!!
Fun fact: It's actually possible to destroy the final boss tank's machine gun turret separately before killing the tank itself, but it's very hard to land the grenades/missiles on target that most times it's just not worth the time spent trying. XD
A real classic!
Right on bro! I remember this!👍
I loved this game, as a kid. I made it plenty of times to the final boss, but never beat him...
Toyota Hilux Vigo Jackal 🇺🇸👮🏻♂️🏹🔫🚀🎖🚙🚚🚘
This was the perfect game in terms of difficulty for me. It wasn't easy to beat, it wasn't too hard as long as you get some practice. Took decent amount of time to beat it. Worth every penny. Great game.
i love the soundtrack amazing!!!!
Superb video.
As great as Konami's other classic co-op games on NES.
"This is the best NES action game i have ever seen."
Fantastic playthrough! What I learned from U Can Beat Video Games is that if you've got the lives to burn, you can machine gun the final tank and take it down quicker.
I just re-watched the ScrewAttack Video Game Vault review of this... Just shameful that Handsome Tom and his partner resorted to cheating! And the former claimed the machine gun "Only shoots straight up" when it fires from the sides of the jeep. When I play this, there won't be any cheating. I'll practice, practice, practice and become so skilled I could drive circles around enemies!
Thanks! This is one I learned quite well in my younger years. It's so damned fun!
I had no idea the machine gun could even damage the tank. Why is it shameful that they cheated? I haven't seen that video. Were they claiming that they weren't when they were or something? He's right about the machine gun, though. No matter which angle you're facing, the gun will always shoot straight up the screen.
Considering Silent Scope 2, the Gunner of the Jeep might have been the one framed for a crime he didn't commit, causing him to ultimately be sent as a co-sniper for Falcon under extreme scrutiny because yeah, convict even if he didn't actually commit the crime.
Clocked some hours playing this
The version I play: The machine gun on the final boss tank bullet fly so fast my jeep barely run more than 2 seconds and instantly caught bullet
This game makes me always think of my dad 💖
yeah! jackal nes was oddly enough one of those games that was better than the arcade version.
We have pro player here! Keep it up and make it again
games when i was a kid... it was really hard to finish the games😆
This was one of the few I never played and must not have known about it?
This game is best played with friends.
OH NO, NOT THE ARC OF THE GRENADE
A clear case where the USA NES version is the winner, not to mention much more complete. The FDS version, which was released first in Japan, feels like a scaled down port.
Yep, unlike the Castlevania II port they had (Dracula II: The Accursed Seal), which had different sound channels that, I read, did not make the tunes heard in that version better than in ours (especially "Bloody Tears").
Yeah, the Japanese version is fun, but iirc the entire first level is missing. There's no horizontal scrolling, either, so all the stages are really skinny and tall.
The map places you at the level you just completed was a glitch. It was supposed to place you at the next level. I never understood the tornado in the background LOL
The soundtrack slaps.
Amanzing! My fist game.
Nostalgic Had This Game🎮💯Beat It Some Many Times I Was 9💯
I miss playing this game
Ja tak samo bracie
Jackal is truly a Konami classic for the console, I remember it used to be pretty cheap CIB a couple years ago but things always change.
I enjoy the game obviously attempts for creative level design and don't fearing these amusing stuff happening from level 1 to the end.
YEEEEAH!
For some reason I don't remember there being unlimited missiles. I need to play this again.
This battle will make you boil blood!
running over enemies with a vehicle way before Halo. 😁
Me and my bro used to fuck this game up once a week. Rip Adam
YEAHHHH!
Sound effect from blades of steel
Yeahhhh !
it's similar to mgsv tpp when you save prisonner and take them to chooper..........this game deserve a remake open world
This is how our parents went to school
Classic
Used to get this mistaken for break thru
I've never know what are they trying to say in minute: 11:56 when they say "HERE?" What does that mean?
NES jackal machine gun only speed run or long play (no emulation just straight up OG nes console)
YEAHHHH!
That's the only word I can say to this game.
Here?
We Made It!
Can anyone explain the area where Japanese game devs went by codenames? What was that all about?
one of the first nee game i played aside from Mario and contra
Omfg at least 1 player found the fucking star at level 1 so many long plays never
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Operation : Mad Jackal. (Resident Evil 3 : Nemesis)
my favourite game thank you❤ par Android me kese khele please batao na
I don't know what to feel
Music and graphics are very similar to contra force
BGMでコナミってわかってしまうw
超懐かしいねw
Feels like Contra
Muito epico
Like
Here?
Remake NOW!!
3:12
YEAHHHH!
Emulated.. )
hiç kuşkusuz Contra ile with en iyi oyun
やっぱ日本って凄いわ。。
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