For people who never played this game, I can’t even begin to explain how hard it was to land the plane. Borderline impossible for a young child lol. As many times as I rented this game, and as many weekends as I played it, I think I landed the plane 2-3 times. Refueling wasn’t exactly a piece of cake either. Well, at least for a 6-7 year old kid anyways. As hard as it was, it never stopped me from renting and playing it. The soundtrack to this game was great too. The 80’s was so awesome.
I thought we were Kamikaze pilots, never ever landed that plane properly. Before watching this video i thought it was a buggy game with no win condition. I'm not even joking
I owned a copy of this game as a kid. Played it literally hundreds of times. This video was the first time I ever saw what it looks like when you successfully land the plane.
Anyone with anything bad to say abojt this game needs to understand thia came out almost 35 years ago on an 8 bit console..... Im over here on the verge of tears from hearing the opening theme and start up sounds in the menus, thinking about how I played this as a kid at my grandparents house who are long gone.. Crazy how the most simple things can bring you back to a place you havnt thought about in years.
I was a kid when i played it. only able to get to the 3rd level. Im a big zelda fan and have been for years. If anyone talks crap about z1 it would piss me off so i know what u mean
So true. Just seeing the carrier on the map really hit me in the nostalgia. My brother and I used to play it at the Westgate arcade in Austin, TX (when it was a cool little town). My mom would drop us off for several hours and pick us up literally whenever she remembered to haha. This is a reminder of a simpler time when social apps didn't exist and kids would spend their time (and quarters) with their friends playing these "state of the art" games instead of giving a flying fuck what other kids were doing.
Even though it's not perfect, I think this is an important NES game because we all played it/rented it back in the day. This was the closest we got to being Maverick and Goose.
It was perfect for me, aged 7 or 8, graphics and sound effects were mind blowing. ) I even managed to finish the game completely once, still remember it.
My wife wanted to see Top gun 2 recently and the opening music of this classic NES game invaded my mind and been stuck there. Amazing after 20+ years these tunes havent faded from memory.
music and smells are very strong memories. that's why we sing ABC to kids, I'm fact there a song I kmow that I leaned as a kid which allows me to say all the states in alphabetical order with out even thinking, I mean I could probably solve math problems while reciting the states back in alphabetical order.
Man this brings back memories. I remember only being able to get up to the 2nd mission no matter how hard I tried. Except for one afternoon where for some reason I was just in "the zone" lol. Finished it that day with no lives lost except for the last landing which I fudged. Never was able to finish it ever again. Good, happy, simpler days.
I got this game the same Christmas I got my NES, my own room, and the first GnR album (on tape.) Gameplay was awesome, but boy did it take me a while to master landing on the carrier and refueling in midair.
I come out of the woods and hills of northern Arkansas when i was 8 to go live with my dad in St. Louis, MO for the summer of 1992, We were there for a few days getting pretty bored. Dad lived in an apartment complex and the opportunities for outside play weren't really there. Guy knocks on the door, he'd seen us playing catch outside earlier with dad. Had an old NES in a box, comes back 2 more times carrying a box of controllers, and then a box of games. Gave it all to us for free. It was my first time seeing anything like it. Pinball and Pac-Man at the laundromat was the entirety of my video game knowledge up to that point. Out of that whole microwave sized box of games I ended up with 3 favorites. Jet Man, NES Open(golf), and Top Gun. The first two were two player games with my dad. Top Gun ended up my go to single player game. There was a flight stick controller in the controller box that made the game really easy to play to me. By the time we went back to mom at the end of the summer I could beat the whole thing in a single sitting without ever getting hit. For the record, I tried this on an emulator recently and could barely get through the first mission......
My Dad bought us an NES when we were little and I remember this game too, I could never get past the first mission (always missed the carrier) but I used to watch him and my brother play :)
Same here. I played Rush N’ Attack and Jackal with my Dad that were coop two player games. Ages ago. He’s since passed but those were some good Friday and Saturday nights. Time goes by fast.
I'm in the airforce and it always brings a smile to my face hearing that theme. Yes I know the movie was about naval aviation but just the same it's still an aircraft
@@magicmaker15 lol no when I was a kid I did wanted to fly but you need to be an officer to fly, it’s a long story and personal one but my road to the airforce is a weird one at that
You took me back 33 years. Can't believe I'm seeing this again after so long. As soon as I saw the missile selection it came all flooding back to my mind. Amazing
I've NEVER seen anyone land on the aircraft carrier after the first mission. We tried hundreds if not thousands of times when I was a kid. Thanks so much for this video!!
Growing up as a child who experienced playing these games was amazing. We would rent video games and play them all weekend but would always end up playing outside with friends after when we beat the game :)
Oh, great glavin in a glad bag. The nostalgia children. I was 8 when I unwrapped the cellophane of that game. It’s the reason I have to play every game since inverted.
The music gives me goose bumps. This generation kids have no clue what we had in the early 90’s. I’m glad I went trough the NES/SNES and sega era . I love it !!!
I have so much nostalgia for this game. The refueling and carrier landing parts were fiendishly difficult, but we were just used to games being so hard that they seemed impossible. I got my NES for Christmas of '87, with Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt. I got this game for Easter of '88, as my first game other than those two for it. I played it so much back then. I never got past Level 2 because of the carrier and refueling parts, but it still was so much fun.
In actuality it isn't since the game Solaris did way more complex things on the Atari 2600 hardware from 1977, not to mention that there is an F-14 flying simulator for that same console which does almost the exact same as this NES game. However, Top Gun: The Second Mission was the better game for sure since it improved and fixed on everything this game offered, but still, on the technology side they were average by 1987~1989 standards.
I beat that game when I was 9 years old at my uncle's home on vacation 1990. Because he never beat that game and he was surprised. So he gave his slalom trophy to me. Sisimiut, Greenland.
As for me, this was one of my favourite game as a kid. Knowing nothing about speed and altitude, landing and refueling was the hardest part of this game for me. But some how I came to realise that your speed and altitude must at least be near to the one given on the flight screen. From there, I finally completed all the stages, the graphics wasn't that good compared to today's games but during those years back then, it was awesome playing a jet fighter game... I just really missed my childhood days, this video just made me fall in tears, memories will be memories. Thank you
This is one of the games a friend of my brother gave to me, along Soccer, Puzznic, Life Force and Guerrilla War, he was uninterested on videogames and he gave me those, making me very happy. This i could never beat it, it was hard to me.
This game reminds me of my youth, only good memories. I still play it from time to time on my tablet via an application and an emulator. Great vintage too. I really love it.
Memories and nightmares of crashing into the carrier. Refueling was a nightmare also. I would not have changed a thing. Makes me want to find one and play it again.
Wow. This takes me back. I remember going through mission 3 and making a map of where all the AAA was. lol. I got to where I could finish the game and not die once, but it took a bit to get there.
I remember this game and it felt like it took me a lifetime to learn how to attach yourself to the refuelling plane!. It remains a classic still in my eyes though!
As a kid this is my first “rage quit” game…. term we didn’t have back then but the controller didn’t live to see the day that we did. RIP NES controller!
All the time I spent on this game as kid, I only managed to see the space shuttle mission once. Ate a missile while shooting at the shuttle. This is the first time seeing someone complete that mission, and made me realize I came close to beating the game.
I must have been between 10 and 12..... it was there or there about's. In the UK, i lived in Southampton. I remember my Dad watching me play the NES, and he was impressed, so by my total surprise, he said ''shall we go and get some games?''. We drove too a place called Sholing Video, we knew the owners. I remember the smell! It was like a clean, yet had that cinema pop corn smell from the machine they had, a massive sweet counter, and on one side of the shop was all the videos, and the other was the games. I remember clear as day looking in the HUGE glass cabinet at the games. I saw Top Gun and Airwolf... and my dad saw Golf and Blades Of Steel. We asked too look at them, they got the games out and i like the looks of the two i picked and my dad really liked his two haha...... so i was over joyed when he purchased all of them. We drove home, really dark Autumn, cold weekend. We played Golf, Brilliant! back then it was so amazing...... you could play as the dude in a red top, the opponent in a white top then if you got the high score, you unlocked the guy in a blue top... and that was amazing back then (simple, i know). We played Blades Of Steel with my brothers, made a tournament up, i was Vancouver, Winnipeg, my two brothers chose teams as did my dad and we played a winner stays on. But the best memory of the day, was when i unplugged the NES from the living room TV, went too the bedroom i shared with my middle brother and played this in too the evening. I can't tell you the excitement.... the battles, changing from day too night...... The refuelling which was so hard! Then the landing! The landing was balls!!! but so rewarding when completed. Gaming is so amazing, because it gives you memories like nothing else does.
I remember playing the hell out of this as a kid. What is so impressive here is that he actually got in the teeth of things and flew through it all, fighting stuff along the way. I cheesed it by flying as high as you could, and staying there. You had way less enemies that way, and all you had to do is not get shot down till you got to the mission objective. I did manage to learn how to land the plane though, but not as consistently as this player here. Well done!
Top Gun looks surprisingly amazing for an NES game. I get the feeling the license was just kinda there; you are never confirmed to actually be Maverick from the movie, and I am positive there wasn't a scene where they had to shoot down a space shuttle.
There was a way to cheese this game on the final level. If you flew straight up the entire way, nothing could touch you and you’d pop out right at the shuttle.
You could do that every level. Use the phoenix missiles. for all 3 of the non training levels. Fly up and to the right and nothing could hit you. Also, on the first boss you fly up and down and nothing could hit you, and you can easily blow up the boss. On level 3 you fly side to side and nothing can hit you and you easily blow up the boss. On level 4 you fly up and down again and nothing can hit you and you easily blow up the boss. The game would just repeat over and over every time you beat it.
I was about 8 years old when I first played this game, and my cousin in the States gave it to me as a gift. The landing was so difficult that I never even cleared first stage. It's already been decades ago, but it's fun to think about old memories.
This game is proof that all you need is a license from a popular movie or character and a catchy song to make some quick cash. To think back in the 80's our fighter aircraft could carry up to 40 missiles and refuel mid-air and replenish missiles through the same tube as the fuel even. Sadly, we do not have this technology today. My, what you lose with time.
Remember getting this game for Christmas in 87 and beating it with my friends before Christmas break was over. Also had Tyson’s punch out beating that game also. Many hours spent playing for those 2 weeks. Best Christmas break ever
As a kid I don’t think I ever noticed that you’re refueling speed is approaching Mach 2! Excellent playthrough. I don’t think I ever beat Top Gun as a kid. The sequel was much easier, and to me more fun. I don’t think I ever aced landing. But I could get refueled. I remember that.
For each of those 4 Missions, I would usually choose these Missile Types. Mission 1: T-11: Hound Mission 2: T-22: Wolf Mission 3: T-33: Tiger Mission 4: T-22: Wolf
For people who never played this game, I can’t even begin to explain how hard it was to land the plane. Borderline impossible for a young child lol. As many times as I rented this game, and as many weekends as I played it, I think I landed the plane 2-3 times. Refueling wasn’t exactly a piece of cake either. Well, at least for a 6-7 year old kid anyways. As hard as it was, it never stopped me from renting and playing it. The soundtrack to this game was great too. The 80’s was so awesome.
I was 7 years old was imposible
I thought we were Kamikaze pilots, never ever landed that plane properly. Before watching this video i thought it was a buggy game with no win condition. I'm not even joking
This game helped get me into flight sims. Now I land on super short runways with crazy wind in MSFS2020.
Yep. Basically just played the first level over and over again. Lol.
You can imagine how hard it was for a non English speaking kid then... I thought it was buggy hence impossible
I owned a copy of this game as a kid. Played it literally hundreds of times. This video was the first time I ever saw what it looks like when you successfully land the plane.
I crashed every time. Lol
Same here. 9 year old me loved and hated this game at the same time. 🤣
i just had ptsd watching it come in to land and then stop at the end, so many times it hit the water or went off the back
lmfao facts
100 percent
Anyone with anything bad to say abojt this game needs to understand thia came out almost 35 years ago on an 8 bit console..... Im over here on the verge of tears from hearing the opening theme and start up sounds in the menus, thinking about how I played this as a kid at my grandparents house who are long gone.. Crazy how the most simple things can bring you back to a place you havnt thought about in years.
I was a kid when i played it. only able to get to the 3rd level. Im a big zelda fan and have been for years. If anyone talks crap about z1 it would piss me off so i know what u mean
The Angry Video Game Nerd would like a word..
Truth.
So true. Just seeing the carrier on the map really hit me in the nostalgia.
My brother and I used to play it at the Westgate arcade in Austin, TX (when it was a cool little town). My mom would drop us off for several hours and pick us up literally whenever she remembered to haha.
This is a reminder of a simpler time when social apps didn't exist and kids would spend their time (and quarters) with their friends playing these "state of the art" games instead of giving a flying fuck what other kids were doing.
It's Called MUSIC
Playing this, we never cared how hard or awful we were at the game.......the opening music and title graphic was worth the purchase!
I still have both Top Gun games for NES plus many others that followed
I never could successfully land on the carrier, lol
True
The same in my case hahaha I saw the movie recently and is my first time seeing the end of the game and how to land the plane.
I never could figure out how to fire the missile or land the jet. LOL
Even though it's not perfect, I think this is an important NES game because we all played it/rented it back in the day. This was the closest we got to being Maverick and Goose.
👍
It was perfect for me, aged 7 or 8, graphics and sound effects were mind blowing. )
I even managed to finish the game completely once, still remember it.
@@FeelTheFlaw I can really relate, I loved it too. I truly felt like I was a fighter pilot when I played it.
@@FeelTheFlaw Where in Ukraine are you from? My grandfather was from Neresnytsya, Zakarpattia Oblast (was Neresnice, Czechoslovakia then).
@@rjcupid I’m originally from Chernivtsi city, but I’ve spent half of my life in Kyiv. )
My wife wanted to see Top gun 2 recently and the opening music of this classic NES game invaded my mind and been stuck there. Amazing after 20+ years these tunes havent faded from memory.
music and smells are very strong memories.
that's why we sing ABC to kids,
I'm fact there a song I kmow that I leaned as a kid which allows me to say all the states in alphabetical order with out even thinking, I mean I could probably solve math problems while reciting the states back in alphabetical order.
20? You mean 35 years??? 😂
@@kkap895 Speaking of smell I still remember when opening to the pages of some old Archie comics the old smell explades 😄
Landing was a nightmare.
Yes even in vrchat F-14 map also very hard
I am proud to be 35 and remember things like this vividly
Gen Y !!!!!
Man this brings back memories. I remember only being able to get up to the 2nd mission no matter how hard I tried. Except for one afternoon where for some reason I was just in "the zone" lol. Finished it that day with no lives lost except for the last landing which I fudged. Never was able to finish it ever again. Good, happy, simpler days.
GREAT job!
Same thing happened to me. I forgot I ever made it to the carrier landing. Haha. Don’t think I landed either.
So would you say, by all accounts, during that last landing, you were in the "Danger Zone"?
Can we get this on Switch Online PLZ!
@@RexxReviews Lol!! In anime-speak, that fudged landing was a wakeup call that I was no longer under ultra instinct 🤣
I got this game the same Christmas I got my NES, my own room, and the first GnR album (on tape.)
Gameplay was awesome, but boy did it take me a while to master landing on the carrier and refueling in midair.
Sorry bro was easy , but I had trauma so it was my escape , Rip Mom 🙏🏽💚👑 thanks for my NES
I come out of the woods and hills of northern Arkansas when i was 8 to go live with my dad in St. Louis, MO for the summer of 1992, We were there for a few days getting pretty bored. Dad lived in an apartment complex and the opportunities for outside play weren't really there.
Guy knocks on the door, he'd seen us playing catch outside earlier with dad. Had an old NES in a box, comes back 2 more times carrying a box of controllers, and then a box of games. Gave it all to us for free.
It was my first time seeing anything like it. Pinball and Pac-Man at the laundromat was the entirety of my video game knowledge up to that point.
Out of that whole microwave sized box of games I ended up with 3 favorites. Jet Man, NES Open(golf), and Top Gun. The first two were two player games with my dad. Top Gun ended up my go to single player game. There was a flight stick controller in the controller box that made the game really easy to play to me. By the time we went back to mom at the end of the summer I could beat the whole thing in a single sitting without ever getting hit.
For the record, I tried this on an emulator recently and could barely get through the first mission......
Top Gun is a textbook example of "Nintendo hard" and I love it.
Yep the landing part
You guys wanna know something funny? I got the landing right on my first go when I first played it in 2004, believe it or not!
You always pick such great game thumbnails/screenshots for your videos. As they say in baseball: "Good eye, good eye!"
@@lovegod4272 true
@@rjcupid I agree!
I remember my Dad buying my first NES when I was 4 years old and this is the first game I got. Wow, how time flies...
It’s amazing if you look at DCS vrs this how far we have come in a short period of time
My Dad bought us an NES when we were little and I remember this game too, I could never get past the first mission (always missed the carrier) but I used to watch him and my brother play :)
Same here. I played Rush N’ Attack and Jackal with my Dad that were coop two player games. Ages ago. He’s since passed but those were some good Friday and Saturday nights. Time goes by fast.
Always loved the 8bit rendition of the Top Gun theme. But as a kid landing the damn plane was hard.
Same here
да, когда был маленьким, не зная английского языка, очень сокрушался, почему не могу сесть на авианосец(
This game looks really good for an NES game. They used the resources they were given to pull off 3D effects at a time where it was almost impossible.
The sequel is even better looking.
Dang I remember. Thanks. Born 1978.
Hearing the Top Gun theme in 8 bit sounded awesome was well worth the purchase!
If you managed to land on the carrier, god bless! 😂
I can say I never landed on the carrier to this day
@@MrPeach1 I think this video was the first time I'd ever seen it happen. None of my friends could do it either.
Yup...never ever landed and I followed the directions too😂
I played the hell out of this game back in the day. Even had the quickshot joystick.
I'm in the airforce and it always brings a smile to my face hearing that theme. Yes I know the movie was about naval aviation but just the same it's still an aircraft
Did the movie inspire you to join?
@@magicmaker15 lol no when I was a kid I did wanted to fly but you need to be an officer to fly, it’s a long story and personal one but my road to the airforce is a weird one at that
Air Force and Navy are hand and hand. Along with every branch. Hopefully service men see it that way.
@@pepsi_man4962 We do...sure there is inter-service rivalry but at the end of the day we have one another's back.
@@BPD1586 that’s awesome! Good to hear
You took me back 33 years. Can't believe I'm seeing this again after so long. As soon as I saw the missile selection it came all flooding back to my mind. Amazing
One of my favorites. It was really hard game, but able to finshed it. Worth it experience. I will never forget this game
Amazing soundtrack. Miss the 80s
When I was a kid, I landed the jet on the aircraft carrier, on my first try ever. Then never again😂 My buddy had a Nintendo when we were kids.
I've NEVER seen anyone land on the aircraft carrier after the first mission. We tried hundreds if not thousands of times when I was a kid. Thanks so much for this video!!
As a kid I had no earthly idea how to play this game, I would love to get my hands on this and finally beat it.
I downloaded the emulator and all the games I couldn't beat as a kid and finally beat them
I for some reason have two copies, LOL!
Born 1981 and I rented this so many times. Brings back a smile to my face to hear the sound effects.
Can you imagine going through all that for an ending that says, "PUSH START!"
Lol..exactly
The game would just repeat, but you retained your score and could add to it. I would repeat it for hours.
This game is as iconic as the arcade game ‘Afterburner’
“Damn, this kid’s good!” - Viper
Seriously tho, this dude is damn good at this! I never even got to see level 3 before on my own! LOL.
Growing up as a child who experienced playing these games was amazing. We would rent video games and play them all weekend but would always end up playing outside with friends after when we beat the game :)
Oh, great glavin in a glad bag. The nostalgia children. I was 8 when I unwrapped the cellophane of that game. It’s the reason I have to play every game since inverted.
The music gives me goose bumps. This generation kids have no clue what we had in the early 90’s. I’m glad I went trough the NES/SNES and sega era . I love it !!!
I have so much nostalgia for this game.
The refueling and carrier landing parts were fiendishly difficult, but we were just used to games being so hard that they seemed impossible.
I got my NES for Christmas of '87, with Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt. I got this game for Easter of '88, as my first game other than those two for it.
I played it so much back then. I never got past Level 2 because of the carrier and refueling parts, but it still was so much fun.
This game was more fun “anticipating” toward the end of the school day then it actually was once you got home and played it.
This game is why I still play games vertically inverted today. It's the only way I can.
In this game, you're forced to.
@HeisenbergBlueGaming You're right. I've wondered for years why I have to have the controls inverted on games. Thank you for solving my question.
Loved both this game and Captain Skyhawk. It's hard to tell how many hours I spent blasting bad guys on Saturday mornings as a kid.
This game is the reason I have to invert the axis on any shooter game I play.
Yes!
I was always amazed how giant the plane is to compare with that little man on the deck :D
The fact that an 8bit console was able to simulate a 3D-esque game is so cool. This game was beyond impressive for its technology...
In actuality it isn't since the game Solaris did way more complex things on the Atari 2600 hardware from 1977, not to mention that there is an F-14 flying simulator for that same console which does almost the exact same as this NES game.
However, Top Gun: The Second Mission was the better game for sure since it improved and fixed on everything this game offered, but still, on the technology side they were average by 1987~1989 standards.
Brings back memories.....of my sneaking to play this when I was supposed to be asleep
When you beat the game, you’re officially qualified to becoming a blue angel pilot.
It's common to hear naval aviators tell you it's more difficult to beat this game than to execute a night landing on a carrier in real life.
@@beantown_billy2405 really?
You’d be a fool to think some blue angels didn’t play this in the late 80s
I beat that game when I was 9 years old at my uncle's home on vacation 1990. Because he never beat that game and he was surprised. So he gave his slalom trophy to me. Sisimiut, Greenland.
@@daveshen0880 wow cool
As for me, this was one of my favourite game as a kid. Knowing nothing about speed and altitude, landing and refueling was the hardest part of this game for me. But some how I came to realise that your speed and altitude must at least be near to the one given on the flight screen. From there, I finally completed all the stages, the graphics wasn't that good compared to today's games but during those years back then, it was awesome playing a jet fighter game... I just really missed my childhood days, this video just made me fall in tears, memories will be memories. Thank you
8 bit games required a bit of imagination on the players part to really enjoy them.
This shows how long we had to wait for the sequel - which was worthwhile
WOW !!! Brings back memories when I was a kid playing this game 🤩
Yes it does! I had such a hard time on level 2 trying to get gas in the air 😂
Ah, lest we forget that AVGN brought us all here for an even more nostalgic experience… XD
This is one of the games a friend of my brother gave to me, along Soccer, Puzznic, Life Force and Guerrilla War, he was uninterested on videogames and he gave me those, making me very happy. This i could never beat it, it was hard to me.
THAT SOUNDTRACK! Right in the childhood!
I totally forgot this game existed until just now. Absolute amazing flashback. I now remember all of it Thanks for the upload!
This game reminds me of my youth, only good memories. I still play it from time to time on my tablet via an application and an emulator. Great vintage too. I really love it.
This was the first NES game i played as a kid. 30 years later and I still have to invert my controls.
Inverting the controls is the ONLY way to play. I still do it over 35 years later. 👍🏽
Memories and nightmares of crashing into the carrier. Refueling was a nightmare also. I would not have changed a thing. Makes me want to find one and play it again.
To beat this game legitimately without flying straight up into the air the whole time is very very very difficult.
Wow. This takes me back. I remember going through mission 3 and making a map of where all the AAA was. lol. I got to where I could finish the game and not die once, but it took a bit to get there.
This guys a freakin ace! I’ve never seen that aircraft carrier in my life, died long before I got there.
Not everyone is Top Gun material..................
@@delacruztaylor hahaha for real 😂
I want the Top Gun 8 bit theme song as a ringtone!
Whoah. Yet another play through that unlocked some very long dormant memories. Some of my very earliest memories are of this game
I love how the mid-air refuel also replenished your armament.😂
I remember this game and it felt like it took me a lifetime to learn how to attach yourself to the refuelling plane!. It remains a classic still in my eyes though!
just keep it within the #'s I just used 300
Refueling AND Landing, I had trouble with both when I was little, and by little I mean younger than 10. Now, not so much.
As a kid this is my first “rage quit” game…. term we didn’t have back then but the controller didn’t live to see the day that we did. RIP NES controller!
All the time I spent on this game as kid, I only managed to see the space shuttle mission once. Ate a missile while shooting at the shuttle. This is the first time seeing someone complete that mission, and made me realize I came close to beating the game.
I used to always play this with my dad when I was a kid 2:21 (who was a navy vet). He used to always have to help me with the landing.
The landing sequence isn't so bad once you learn to ignore the unhelpful flashing messages and just look at the speed and altitude numbers
What should they be at?
wish i woulda known this in the 90s
@@rockymvvrcianu6846 gotten to know it thru a friend.
When I was a kid I always crashed my plane on landing
I wish the nerd would know sooner.
Hearing the opening theme like this again after all these years gave me chills ...
I must have been between 10 and 12..... it was there or there about's.
In the UK, i lived in Southampton.
I remember my Dad watching me play the NES, and he was impressed, so by my total surprise, he said ''shall we go and get some games?''.
We drove too a place called Sholing Video, we knew the owners.
I remember the smell! It was like a clean, yet had that cinema pop corn smell from the machine they had, a massive sweet counter, and on one side of the shop was all the videos, and the other was the games.
I remember clear as day looking in the HUGE glass cabinet at the games.
I saw Top Gun and Airwolf... and my dad saw Golf and Blades Of Steel.
We asked too look at them, they got the games out and i like the looks of the two i picked and my dad really liked his two haha...... so i was over joyed when he purchased all of them.
We drove home, really dark Autumn, cold weekend.
We played Golf, Brilliant! back then it was so amazing...... you could play as the dude in a red top, the opponent in a white top then if you got the high score, you unlocked the guy in a blue top... and that was amazing back then (simple, i know).
We played Blades Of Steel with my brothers, made a tournament up, i was Vancouver, Winnipeg, my two brothers chose teams as did my dad and we played a winner stays on.
But the best memory of the day, was when i unplugged the NES from the living room TV, went too the bedroom i shared with my middle brother and played this in too the evening.
I can't tell you the excitement.... the battles, changing from day too night...... The refuelling which was so hard! Then the landing! The landing was balls!!! but so rewarding when completed.
Gaming is so amazing, because it gives you memories like nothing else does.
This brings back so many childhood memories 😀
This is an ABSOLUTE CLASSIC game 💪🏾💪🏾
Up Up, Down Down, Left Left, Right Right.
Was very stressful as a kid when trying to land the plane.
No wonder Konami made a code out of this.
I think this came out after Contra.
@@russwaddel08 Contra was developed before Top Gun, but came out after it in the US, both in 1987. However, the code came from Gradius in 1985.
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I remember playing the hell out of this as a kid. What is so impressive here is that he actually got in the teeth of things and flew through it all, fighting stuff along the way. I cheesed it by flying as high as you could, and staying there. You had way less enemies that way, and all you had to do is not get shot down till you got to the mission objective. I did manage to learn how to land the plane though, but not as consistently as this player here. Well done!
It's amazing how far graphics and gameplay have evolved
I love this game so much, I still play in my brain the missil alert and machine gun hit sound effects.
The landing sequence in this game makes you wanna fly rubber shit out of Hong Kong
Attitudes like that don't fly(pun intended) for Navy aviation!
Would play this game all the time as a kid. Landing was the hardest part for me.
Game is only 30 mins long because they didnt expect us to land...and they were right
LOL the tanker reload the missiles too... now that's service!
One of the hardest game I've ever played in SNES. Yet one of my favorite.
I remember playing this as a kid. Loved it back then.
The amount of nostalgia that just came back is insane.......
Top Gun looks surprisingly amazing for an NES game. I get the feeling the license was just kinda there; you are never confirmed to actually be Maverick from the movie, and I am positive there wasn't a scene where they had to shoot down a space shuttle.
There was a way to cheese this game on the final level. If you flew straight up the entire way, nothing could touch you and you’d pop out right at the shuttle.
You could do that every level. Use the phoenix missiles. for all 3 of the non training levels. Fly up and to the right and nothing could hit you. Also, on the first boss you fly up and down and nothing could hit you, and you can easily blow up the boss. On level 3 you fly side to side and nothing can hit you and you easily blow up the boss. On level 4 you fly up and down again and nothing can hit you and you easily blow up the boss. The game would just repeat over and over every time you beat it.
This game was 90% landing on the carrier and 10% everything else but I loved this game when I was a kid.
Man this is a nostalgic game
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I was about 8 years old when I first played this game, and my cousin in the States gave it to me as a gift. The landing was so difficult that I never even cleared first stage. It's already been decades ago, but it's fun to think about old memories.
懐かしい！着陸も補給もめちゃ難しかった🤣
このゲームがきっかけでプレステのエースコンバットはまったわー😁
I remember this so vividly, especially the ending screen - I am proud to bestow upon you the designation of TOP GUN...
Who else just left the title music playing indefinitely, probably causing burn-in on their parents' tube TV screen?
one of the best game in my nes. i love playing the landing part
Wow, this brings back some memories from when I was a child. I never owned it but I remember renting it and wishing I owned it 😁
Never forget how excited I was when I finally stuck that first landing, felt like it took forever.
5:17 The most terrifying 3 seconds of my gaming childhood
I loved this game. Never landed one plane. But I replayed that first mission over and over.
This game is proof that all you need is a license from a popular movie or character and a catchy song to make some quick cash. To think back in the 80's our fighter aircraft could carry up to 40 missiles and refuel mid-air and replenish missiles through the same tube as the fuel even. Sadly, we do not have this technology today. My, what you lose with time.
Remember getting this game for Christmas in 87 and beating it with my friends before Christmas break was over. Also had Tyson’s punch out beating that game also. Many hours spent playing for those 2 weeks. Best Christmas break ever
Thank you for bringing me back to the old days, I had so much trouble landing on the carrier when I played as a kid, you make it so easy XD
Hahaha same thing in my case, in that time I didn't know English making harder the landing scene.
This game was one of the hardest games to beat for me. But I love playing air simulation games because of Top Gun.
This brings back so many memories. I had the damnist time trying to land on that aircraft carrier. LOL
Same here. Though i never beat the game, but to make a succesful landing was good enough for me lol
OMG, I played this game with I was a kid, didn't expect finding it on youtube decades later. Certainly took me a lot of time to learn how to land ...
I never struggled with a game like I did with this one
As a kid, I think i successfully refueled ONCE by accident. No google or videos to watch just a 9 yr old kid. This was my Dark Souls.
As a kid I don’t think I ever noticed that you’re refueling speed is approaching Mach 2!
Excellent playthrough. I don’t think I ever beat Top Gun as a kid. The sequel was much easier, and to me more fun. I don’t think I ever aced landing. But I could get refueled. I remember that.
And refueling gets you more missiles!
You probably also never noticed the aircraft uses boom refuelling when it should be probe and drogue.
Me too! I laughed when I saw 1300 speed. That’s a fast ass tanker!
As a young kid I had so much trouble landing on the aircraft carrier…I could never get past that level.
For each of those 4 Missions, I would usually choose these Missile Types.
Mission 1: T-11: Hound
Mission 2: T-22: Wolf
Mission 3: T-33: Tiger
Mission 4: T-22: Wolf
This brings back many childhood memories