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Jackal
log entries
2014-12-11
4860
My first game of NES Jackal went pretty well. I completed 2/6 levels. Cool version of the awesome arcade game.
2015-02-24
5107
Yeah, Jackal feels great in 60 Hz!
5108
The stage 2 music reminds me a bit of Golden Axe.
5109
Reached level 3/6. You have 3 continues.
2016-10-02
7007
I freakin' love this game. Everything about it. I'm not great at it, though, I am in so much trouble in stage 3, especially the battleship boss.
7008
Reached level 4/6. Combining machine gun and grenades or rockets made short work of the battleship turrets.
7009
Reached level 5/6. It took 7 grenades to take out the big helicopter boss.
7010
Reached level 6/6. The level 5 base boss wasn't difficult at all.
7011
The turreted base in level 6 was too much to deal with. I'm going to get it at some point, though...
7017
After looking at some maps from videogamemaps.net, I think I should avoid the heavily defended base in Stage 6 and just go to the right instead.
7018
Dammit! So close to the end of level 6. Helicopters and spread shot turrets are the main problems for me right now.
2016-10-03
7019
Two times more I made it to level 6, now playing on the mednafen emulator to be able to stream the whole thing to YouTube. The last attempt went well, and I reached the final boss. But it was too much. Maybe tomorrow.
2016-10-26
7128
Bjørn was visiting, and we played a game of Jackal on the old NES.
2018-05-13
8578
Another good NES game that Thomas and I tried, but it crashed. I wonder if I should buy a top-loader NES or something?
2019-04-17
9606
I bought a new NES on dba.dk and picked it up in Gentofte. I'm currently testing it out, and it seems very stable so far. The guy I bought it from was using it for world record score attempts, so that makes sense. I played the 3 first levels of Jackal, worked perfectly.
