Konami's Jackal Hits Arcade Archives On Switch And PS4 This Week

What—!?? I loved Jackal on the NES but never knew there was a coin-op!
I most certainly will check out this Arcade Archive release.

I hope more of these overhead run (or drive) & gun games come through hamster’s wheelhouse. Desert Assault, Gundhara..

There was also a for-mobile reimagined version of Jackal called Jackal Squad, but I’ve not played that

Great to see this hit arcade archives.. did love this in the arcades

i got weirdly confronted last time i pointed this out, but this is yet another arcade game that was better on NES. ✌️

(not that im turning my nose up at the arcade version!)

(aaand the Jackal music is now looping in my head. see jeep, hear Jackal 😄)

What I recall from LordBBH 1CC runs on this game, he said there are actually two arcade versions. One with a rotary joystick (I think) and another using a standard 8-way joystick (I think that was the one he finished). I wonder which will be supported on ACA.

@-wc- I guess there's technically three versions: arcade, Famicom Disk System, and NES.
Apparently the latter was an improvement over the middle, as cartridges didn't have to worry as much about conserving memory (taking up less space so they could be loaded into the FDS' RAM more easily so they didn't have to incur more loading time).

@KingMike I was aware of the arcade version, but not aware of that particular detail. I went straight to TCRF(The Cutting Room Floor) and they have a bit of info on this under the entry for Top Gunner. In the case of the rotary version, it is suspected it was a version for location testing and may not have been officially released. It also mentions that the Japanese version of the game has the machine gun shoot the way the jeep is facing as opposed to upwards like the NA and World versions. I'm not sure if there are significant differences between those latter two to count them as two distinct versions of the game, but it looks like there are either three or four unique versions of the game, which is rather interesting.

Also interesting to see how significantly the NES version was changed from the FDS version. I never looked this one up before.

I remember it in arcades. But it seemed like EVERYONE either had Jackal for NES, or lived next to someone that did.

I've hoped this would hit Switch for a while now!

I didn't know this has arcade version, I played and finished the game way back then on nes.

Does anyone know when this is out in the UK in PS4/5 as the shop says 27.06.24 but there's no option to buy it. Is it also available on switch uk?

once or twice games have been delayed by a day or so that said mighty guy has a store page but never came out on PS4.

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/concept/10009365

I suspect hamster only submit each game once to sony for submission as the first time is always free. If the game fails they don't resubmit due to the cost it incurred.

Jackal is not out on PS4 or switch yet so it might just be a delay