Jackal (NES)

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.
Failure x 2
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.
2019-09-18
• [10010]
  I just made a RetroAchievements account and tried playing Jackal on the RANes emulator. It's a mod of FCEUX with support for achievements. I got 4 achievements from playing through the first level.
2020-07-04
• [10861]
  OK, Jackal works on the MiSTer. This is going to work out, I think.