American Arcade Flyer Overhead “run-n-gun” shooting games in the vein of Commando and Ikari Warriors normally take place on foot, though the latter allowed you to commandeer tanks until they were severely damaged. SNK had expanded this idea in TNK III (enhanced and released for the NES as Iron Tank), where you would pilot a tank from start to finish. Konami fashioned Jackal out of the same basic premise by putting you behind the virtual wheel of a military vehicle instead of hoofing it. Instead of a bulky tank, the transport of choice is a quick and well-armed jeep, not commonly seen in most war-themed games at the time. Without much story to go on except that “you are fighting the bad guys of a nefarious enemy nation”, you take the jeep through heavily guarded POW camps, free the prisoners, and destroy all the bad guys. For such a simple idea, Jackal turns out to be one of Konami’s best pure action titles of the mid-eighties. Arcade The original arcade version, titled Tokushu Butai (“Special Force”) Jackal in Japan, Top Gunner in North America, and Jackal everywhere else, plays in an uninterrupted stretch without any checkpoints.

You can either play solo or take a second player along for some jeep-based carnage. Four named commandos in charge of the jeep: Colonel Decker, Lieutenant Bob, Sergeant Quint, and Corporal Grey. Your weapons are a machine gun and grenades, both of which are naturally unlimited in ammunition. The jeep itself, able to move in eight directions, also counts as a weapon, as you can run it over enemy foot soldiers without blowing up yourself. An interesting difference between the two localizations involves the direction of the machine gun.

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In the Japanese version, the machine gun turns as you do, but in the American release, the machine gun stays permanently affixed to fire north. This may seem like a restriction, but it provides a tactical advantage by making you able to fire at enemies in front while retreating from them. Most enemies are best off being dispatched by grenades anyway, and in either version, grenades always launch where you face. Another minor change in Top Gunner places an American flag on the jeeps, at least giving some clarification to what country you fight for even if the enemy nation remains ambiguous. Arcade The main objective of Jackal is to obliterate the enemy headquarters at the end of your designated route, but there is also the secondary objective of rescuing prisoners of war, much like the helicopter action game Choplifter. Most buildings are destructible and cough up four prisoners after wrecking them with a grenade.