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Jackal

Jackal

Jackal

 

Man up motherfucker. Something vague has happened and firepower is awesome. You’ll need a kitten packed with courage, and a doublefist full of steel cobras.

Attention, soldier. We never leave a man behind. Guns rule. You’ll need a child’s hope and the subtlety of a spiked bat.

You are part of an elite team of special soldiers. You are going to bring democracy to the heathens. The heathens have weapons that you will envy. You’ll need a hooker’s heart of gold and a sock full of quarters.

Buck up, Buttercup. Waited so long. Explosions make me horny. You’ll need two tickets to paradise, won’t you pack your bags we leave tonight.

God I love Jackal.

I love how you start out in a desert that looks like Vietnam, and end up in a moon base that looks like Vietnam:

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I love going head to head with crazy Medusa heads that fire rockets from their mouths.

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I love how the result of beating a level is either stopping to check a map, or getting my jeep airborne and shooting recklessly into the air.

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Most of all I love it when my mission accomplished and I can sit back and smoke a cigar and wait for a chopper to pick me up. On the moon.  Which, again, looks like Vietnam.

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Jackal

  • Developer: Konami
  • Publisher: Konami
  • Release Date: 1986

Game Genie codes

  • SZPTSI: both players have infinite lives
  • LEZTKG: full weapons after death