Jackal,[a] also distributed under the title of Top Gunner, is an overhead run and gun video game released for arcades by Konami in 1986.

The player must maneuver an armed jeep in order to rescue prisoners of war (POWs) trapped in enemy territory.

If a player successfully extracts eight prisoners in a row into the chopper, the jeep's missile launcher will be upgraded to the next level.

The player will go through a variety of different areas throughout the course of the mission such as an ancient ruins, a lake, a hill and a mountain before reaching the enemy headquarters.

The player's jeep can run over foot soldiers, but will be destroyed if it gets shot by a projectile or collides with an enemy vehicle.

Jackal was originally designed to be played with rotary joysticks similar to the ones used by SNK in some of their games at the time such as TNK III and Ikari Warriors.

This earlier version lacks some of the content that was later added to its NES counterpart due to it being released in disk card format rather than on a ROM cartridge.

A ROM image of the NES Jackal is included in the Windows PC compilation Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra released in 2002 in North America, but the game is inaccessible by legitimate means and can only be found by extracting it from the executable.

[10] An unrelated mobile version of Jackal (also based on the NES game) was released by Konami for the Chinese market on August 5, 2010.

In Japan, Game Machine listed Jackal on their November 15, 1986 issue as being the third most-successful table arcade unit of the month.