Retro Arcade: Jackal Completion on 1 Credit (741100 pts)

A full run of Konami s Jackal completed on one credit with default settings normal difficulty, 3 lives with bonuses at 30k and 150k using MAME. Also, the maximum number of hostages (8) were dropped off at all 8 pickup zones. I was totally inspired by this video from RetroGameDemos: who achieved a frankly heroic effort by completing Jackal using only keyboard controls. I had a gamepad and used MAME s inbuilt autofire, and still found this brutally difficult.