NES High Score Club 2nd Season Week #11 - Jackal

[vdub_bobby]

You've satisfied your lust for diamonds, now lets get a-rescuin' agin! Yes, it's time for Jackal!

 

Post a score and let's get this thing rolling! Pay attention to your score - once your game is over you'll never see it again!

 

Please post any tips you may have - best tip gets 1 bonus point!

 

And if anyone has a link to the manual, please post it.

 

This week's competition ends next Tuesday (May 22) morning at approximately 8:00 am PST.

 

This week's standings:

 

520,000 rjchamp3 (+10 pts)

156,250 vdub_bobby (+8 pts)

137,850 8th lutz (+6 pts)

 

 

Twin Galaxies High Scores

 

None!

 

 

Overall standings:

 

1. vdub_bobby (58 pts)

2. bust3dstr8 (49 pts)

3. rjchamp3 (44 pts)

4. LarcenTyler (32 pts)

5. gdement (31 pts)

6. MetalSlime23 (25 pts)

7. 8th lutz (23 pts)

8. Cybergoth (12 pts)

9. duncantoml (10 pts)

10. kevincal (9 pts)

11. Slayer (8 pts)

12. Bucket (7 pts)

13. Jibbajaba (6 pts)

 

 

Game Info

 

Coin-op developed by Konami in 1986. Ported to the NES by Konami in 1988.

 

Other platforms: Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS, ZX Spectrum

 

Sequels/spinoffs: None, as far as I can tell.

 

 

Tips

 

None yet.

Edited May 22, 2007 by vdub_bobby

[8th lutz]

137,850

[rjchamp3]

520,000

[vdub_bobby]

156,250

 

And we're done! Hope you had fun rescuing POWs.

[Cybergoth]

He, where's the scores from the other 4 people that voted for it?

 

Kinda ridiculous to push Jackal with your votes on top when you're not playing it anyway

[vdub_bobby]

Yeah...

 

Jackal is a pretty good game, one of the best of its genre on the NES in my opinion. It has all the usual endless enemies and powerups but it also has the Choplifter-like hostage retrieval and dropoff. Gives it a little extra dimension. Has interesting bosses and terrain, too.

 

Definitely worth giving a play or two.