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Top Gun
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Ask anyone who played Konami's Top Gun as a kid what they remember, and the answer is rarely the dogfights. It is the carrier landing: the deck drifting in the windshield, the gauges ticking, the throttle eased back a notch at a time while you hope your F-14 Tomcat settles onto the flight deck instead of into the sea. Few NES games squeezed so much drama out of simply coming home.
Everything happens from the cockpit, with altitude, airspeed, radar and fuel readouts framing the sky as enemy fighters sweep in. The machine gun never runs dry, but missiles do the heavy lifting, and before each sortie you choose from three missile types, each with its own balance of strengths. Four missions raise the stakes from open-sky dogfights to strikes on heavily defended targets, building to a raid on a space shuttle.
Then there are the moments that turned a movie license into a playground legend. Longer flights call for mid-air refueling, where you nurse the Tomcat into position behind a tanker while the fuel needle sinks. Every mission ends with that landing approach, and a sloppy line-up costs you a plane. The margins are thin, the game is famously tough, and the satisfaction of finally sticking a landing is hard to match.
Top Gun rode the wave of the biggest film of 1986 straight into living rooms. Konami also issued it as a VS. System arcade game, and according to David Sheff's book Game Over the NES version sold more than two million copies. A sequel, Top Gun: The Second Mission, followed in 1990, but this first cartridge is the one with the soaring title theme, the white-knuckle refueling and the landing that a whole generation still talks about. It is pure late-'80s Hollywood swagger, and a great test of nerve on original hardware.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1987
- Publisher
- Konami
- Genre
- Simulation, Arcade
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Top Gun was released in 1987 for the PC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) (with an equivalent version for Nintendo Vs. Series arcade cabinets). The Commodore and Spectrum versions were developed by Ocean while Thunder Mountain handled the PC version of the game. Konami developed the Nintendo version. The NES version was released on November 1987 in North America, December 11, 1987 in Japan and on November 30, 1988 in Europe and Australia. According to Game Over by David Sheff, the NES version sold over 2 million copies. Many of the people who've played the NES version have complained about the difficulty, and lack of action in the game. The NES version had a sequel called Top Gun: The Second Mission.
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