#10 Jackal
This 1986 Arcade overhead run and gun shooter eventually made its home on the Famicom Disk System and NES in 1988. The game’s premise is fun in its simplicity: you and a fellow player control jeeps armed with an upgradeable machine gun and grenade launcher that shoot and blow up everything in sight while rescuing POWs. Is there anything else one really needs out of a game of its ilk?
Jackal has never seen a re-release on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console, but Xbox 360 users can grab the Arcade version on XBLA. I can only imagine the kind of madness that would ensue in a new iteration that introduced four player co-op.
