Top Gun
- ALL-TIME CLASSIC
- GREAT FOR ALL AGES
- NES INTENDO VIDEO GAME VERSION
- GREAT FOR COLLECTORS
- SEVERAL HOURS OF FUN
Product Description
GREAT GAME. TOP GUN FOR NES NINTENDO VIDEO GAME SYSTEM. ALL-TIME CLASSIC. CARTRIDGE ONLY.Overview: You are a pilot. Blow stuff up. Directions: Complete the objective given to you during your briefing. Before each mission, you can choose a missile type. The more powerful the missile, the less you have. When landing or refueling be sure to watch the instructions and follow them. Press A to Alacrity up and B to Slow down when they question you to.
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NES Top Gun
Despised this game growing up! I never could land the freaking plane!
Impossible.
I got this game back in the mid 1980s when it came out. I despised it. Namely because I never could land the damn plane on the freaking aircraft carrier.
For a mid 1980s game, it’s a honestly decent, if dull, flight simulator. But don’t reflect you’ll be getting a real flight simulator. You just chose your plane, then you you glide in this huge dull blue frame for a while, and try to dodge missles. There’s no real music. That’s the whole game. There are four missions, but I only got to the third mission. There’s a excellent reason for that.
But what makes this game so notorious for those who remember it (my generation, basically), is landing the plane on the aircraft carrier. When you land the plane, you get a long approach, in which the game will constantly tell you to press up or down on the control pad, to made sure you are aligned properly. And no matter how meticulously you follow the instructions, YOU ALMOST ALWAYS CRASH. I can remember being a small kid and getting so frustrated at this game because I could never land. My brother landed once or twice, but that’s about it.
The other terrible part is, I reflect in mission 3, you have to fuel midair when a huge fuel plane comes up on top of you. Just like landing, you have to press up or down to make sure the cable that will transport the gas from the fuel plane to your aircraft is properly aligned. Just like the landing on the aircraft, you can never make the connection. If the connection is not made, then the fuel aircraft will break the connection, leaving you to certain death as you will run out of fuel before you reach the aircraft carrier, which you won’t be able to land on anyway.
The reason why I could never get past mission three is, if I remember correctly, you have three lives. You lose the first two lives on the first two missions because you can’t land, then you lose your life because you can’t fuel. I reflect the fourth mission has to do with a space ferry, but I never knew any of my friends who had the game to get to that level.
Just a really terrible game. Google Mad Video Game Nerd’s review of it, he is, as usual, spot on (beware, he has a lot of adult language to the point his reviews are borderline obscene, but still amusing as hell).
Oh, also, this game has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MOVIE. The movie even came out well before the game. NO CONNECTION at all.
Rating: 1 / 5
Well, if you’re still playing NES sports meeting you are either really ancient or really poor. I’m really ancient. Basically this is the video game made to capitalize on the late 1980’s movie _Topgun_ with tom cruise. I really liked that go. The first scene in the game is a sillouete of an F-14 and the Topgun theme song is playing. That scene is my favorite part of the game, sometimes I just place the game in to see that title screen and hear the music, and then turn it off. The gameplay is pretty excellent since you can shoot incoming missles with your cannon, and you can engage ships in battle. The two parts of the game that [stink] the most are (1)trying to re-fuel in mid-air, and (2)trying to land. I guess it takes patience to learn how to do both of these things, but since I’m ancient, I have none. I first played this game some time in the late 80’s. Then I got a nintendo in the early 90’s, then I finally got this game …in the year 2001. This game will help you to come to terms with the fact that you will never really get to glide an F-14, because you’re a nerd, not a flying ace. Hope this helps!
Rating: 5 / 5
This game is a truly sadistic experience. It seems to have been designed not for human beings, but for some as-yet-to-evolve alien species with frenzied-quick reflexes. To place it simply: there is no way to beat this game, and there is arguably no way to intentionally pass the first level without dying.
Do not play this game, do not buy it, do not even look at the box cover. Go on to Metroid, Zelda, or Mario. Konami made some splendid sports meeting for the NES, but this one is a disaster.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is a dull, near impossible flight simulating game. Its not all that based on the movie, there is no real tale, you are just a F-14 fighter in hostile territory. You have guns and brilliant the rockets and missiles to use before each mission (level).
It is a nice flight simulator, but its just dull with long periods of sky, no clouds, no sea, no land, no obsticles. Then there is the challenge. Enemies firing rockets at you from sea and air. One rocket and you’re dead, I suppose its like that in real life. Enemy jets get behind you and you need to shake them before they ruin you with their rockets or missiles.
Then halfway owing to a mission, you will need more jet fuel, so the flying fuel tanker flies in and you need to get the fuel just right or die trying. At the end of each mission, you need to land on an aircraft carrier with perfection. Too quick, you crash, too slow, you crash, too high, you crash, too low, you crash.
Its a prescise game, so if you like prescision, this is your game! But, for casual gamers, this is a frustratingly hard and unfun game.
Rating: 2 / 5
I had known about this game for years, but I never got to play it until 1998. I was a bit worried to like it or be a fan of it, because I wasn’t a fan of the movie at the time. But the more I played it, the more I liked it. I’ve been a fan of this game long before I was a fan of the film. I didn’t even become a fan of the film until 2002. Anyway, let’s get to the review:This game has not anything to do with the movie, but based on the intro from the second Top Gun game (Top Gun:The Second Mission, also a excellent game), you ARE Maverick flying the plane. Maverick must complete 4 missions:The first mission is a training mission high up in the sky. The second mission is fought above the sea, the third one is fought in the desert, and the last one is fought in Outer Space. Despite having not anything to do with the film, this game is splendid. It’s a flight sim, and it’s simple to get into. It’s not too complicated or perplexing like most other flight sims are. You don’t have to glide around and look for enemies. The enemies come to you. And that’s excellent. You can reflect of it as the same gameplay as After Burner, only it’s viewed from first person instead of third person. The game’s really hard though. I don’t reflect I’ve gotten past Mission 2 more than once. But Hard difficulty shouldn’t guide someone away from a game. At the end of each mission, you need to land your plane on the carrier. For first timers, you might be screwing up alot, but once you have enough experience with the game, you should be making a flourishing landing more than you have the first few times you played, but you still might crash every once in a while. If you do crash the plane during landing, you still get to go to the next level, but it cost you a life. And if you crash the plane during landing with only one life left, it’s Game Over. And there are no continues. And that sucks, but it’s not that huge a deal. The game only has 4 stages like I said. And I wouldn’t want a game that’s so simple I can beat it on my first try, because that just takes the fun out of it. It puts up a excellent-enough challenge so it’s not so simple, because a game isn’t fun if it’s too simple. It’s also not fun if it’s too hard either, but this game is just right. There’s also sometimes where you have to refuel your plane and the controls for these sequences are the same as the ones for landing, but refueling is simple. The music, well, there’s not much. There’s a nice 8-bit version of the Top Gun Anthem played at the copyright screen and the end, but there’s only 3 other BGMs in the game:
One BGM is the one for mission briefing
Another one has it’s places swapped in different versions of the game:In the US version, this BGM is played during the demonstration sequence and when you need to refuel the plane, and in the japanese version, it’s played during the main gameplay, unlike the US version where the music is completely absent.
By and large:Top Gun’s one of the most vital titles in Konami’s long history. It was also their first licensed game ever. And this cart was a huge hit back when it came out. It sold about 3 million units. I’ve been a huge fan of the game since 1998, and I even own the japanese Famicom edition of it. I recommend it. You can easily get into this game even if you aren’t too crazy about flight sims.
Rating: 5 / 5