Top Gun (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2022
- A playthrough of Konami's 1987 license-based action game for the NES, Top Gun.
The first-person combat-oriented flight sim was not a genre that the NES was known for, but that's not to say that it didn't have a few gems in its library.
Top Gun was the first NES game of its type to hit it big in the United States. I'm sure it got a lot of recognition because of its license - Top Gun was as big-time as Hollywood movies get - but the game deserves its fair due as well. It wouldn't have sold nearly two million copies if it hadn't been worth playing.
You take on the role of "Lieutenant" (not Maverick, technically), a Navy fighter pilot who is training at the elite Top Gun school. When "the enemy" begins an invasion of oil fields that America depends on, you're ordered to report to a carrier in order to lead a squadron of F-14s into battle. The game is based on the film only in the loosest sense, but it provides a pretext for jumping into a fighter jet and blowing people up with missiles. That's all that matters.
The game is broken up into four different missions: the first is a training mission that's meant to get you acclimated, the second sends you flying over the enemy's naval forces, and the third has you destroying ground defenses. The final mission combines everything you dealt with in the previous missions, and tops it off with a battle against the enemy's space shuttle. Don't worry that it sounds ridiculous - just accept that it was a product of the 80s and embrace the absurdity.
The gameplay is pretty simple. The A-button fires your guns, the B-button handles missiles, and hitting Start will call in a plane to refuel your fighter and to replenish your stock of missiles mid-flight.
There's a simple radar display at the bottom of the screen that gives you a vague idea of where the enemies are, but otherwise, you're on your own. The enemy jets zoom in from every direction, and you need to either dodge them or wipe them out before they can hit you. The biggest threats are the enemy missiles: they're difficult to shoot down and they kill you instantly on contact, but you can usually avoid them by pointing your plane's nose toward the top corners of the screen.
When you call for a refuel, you'll play a mini-game to line up your plane with the refueling boom, and once you've accomplished your mission objective, you'll play a similar mini-game as you attempt to safely land on the flight deck of the carrier.
It sounds easy, but as anyone who has ever played it can tell you, Top Gun is anything but. It's a stiff test of both reflexes and memorization, and there are no continues, so every life counts. If you savor your sanity, learn the enemy formations and attack patterns. The game becomes much more manageable once you have a good feel for those.
I've always loved Top Gun for its challenge. It's a game that will make you want to throw your controller, but that sense of improvement that comes with practice will keep you coming back for more. At least, it did for me.
(And if you always wrecked your plane while trying to land, the trick to it is to match your speed and altitude to the figures it gives you at the bottom of the screen. If you're close to 288mph at 200 feet as you approach the deck, you make the landing every time.)
If you find yourself getting frustrated, here's a trick for you: as soon as the mission starts, hold down+right or down+left. As long as you're flying directly into the corner, the only way an enemy will be able to hit you is by locking on to you from behind. If they try, jerk your plane back and forth from right-to-left and you'll lose them. It's not an exciting way to play the game, but so long as you can handle the boss fights and the landing sequences, this strategy turns all four missions into a cakewalk.
The game looks really nice for a 1987 release - the sprites do a great job of clearly representing a plane's distance and heading, the framerate is high enough to give the action some sense of speed, and the planes look pretty cool as they go tearing past you. The sound is a bit weak, though. The theme song from the movie sounds good, but there's no in-game music. You'll be hearing a lot of white noise engine sounds and explosions, and not much else.
I much prefer the sequel ( • Top Gun: The Second Mi... ), but I still enjoy sitting down to play the original Top Gun on occasion. It doesn't impress now the way it did 35 years ago, but there's still a good bit of fun to be wrung from this one if you can summon the right mindset.
Now, if only they'd combined this with Kings of the Beach... just imagine having 80s beefcake beach volleyball breaks between the combat missions!
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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
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.
it was easy to land it called follow the onboard screen to land it not hard at all
Yep. Basically just played the first level over and over again. Lol.
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 😄
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.
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!
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 🤣
Amazing soundtrack. Miss the 80s
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.
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 :)
I am proud to be 35 and remember things like this vividly
Always loved the 8bit rendition of the Top Gun theme. But as a kid landing the damn plane was hard.
Same here
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
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😂
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 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.
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
Brings back memories.....of my sneaking to play this when I was supposed to be asleep
I totally forgot this game existed until just now. Absolute amazing flashback. I now remember all of it Thanks for the upload!
“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.
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
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😁
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
Whoah. Yet another play through that unlocked some very long dormant memories. Some of my very earliest memories are of this game
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......
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.
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.
One of my favorites. It was really hard game, but able to finshed it. Worth it experience. I will never forget this game
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 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.
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! Love it... Definitely remember playing some Top Gun (NES) back in the day.... great to see it on here... brings back memories.
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.
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!!
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.
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
I remember playing this as a kid. Loved it back then.
I remember this so vividly, especially the ending screen - I am proud to bestow upon you the designation of TOP GUN...
Man this is a nostalgic game
Yes
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 brings back some memories from when I was a child. I never owned it but I remember renting it and wishing I owned it 😁
Hearing the opening theme like this again after all these years gave me chills ...
"Talk to me Goose."
Goose to Maverick: "Take me to bed or lose me forever!"
...Meg Ryan was never seen nor heard from again.
@@NintendoComplete 😂
This video brings back memories. Loved playing this game. Hated landing the plane thought lol
Thanks for sharing I beat that when I lived in Laguna long ago peace memories
I remember renting this. With a lot of imagination it was great!
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 ...
This brings back many childhood memories
I love this game so much, I still play in my brain the missil alert and machine gun hit sound effects.
Memories. The sound and music brought it all back
This shows how long we had to wait for the sequel - which was worthwhile
This was the first NES game i played as a kid. 30 years later and I still have to invert my controls.
This game is the reason I have to invert the axis on any shooter game I play.
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 😂
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!
The amount of nostalgia that just came back is insane.......
one of the best game in my nes. i love playing the landing part
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.
It's amazing how far graphics and gameplay have evolved
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.
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.
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.
this brings back memories!!! I love this game back then no matter how inaccurate it is..
OMG! I've never thought there was a Top Gun's game before. Awesome...
Oh my god.I like it.TopGun forever.
We have a same memory even we are in different places of the world.
loved this game. the sounds, controls, graphics. pretty immersive at that time
do you even know what you're talking about?
Would play this game all the time as a kid. Landing was the hardest part for me.
Absolutely , loved the theme music Bring back good memories!!!
Brings back lots of childhood memories.
Wow!! I had this game played it all the time....those were the days of gaming watching technology change from Atari to PS5 I'm turning 50 and playing COD and Battlefield games and this old man can kick ass...lol...oh and when you land on a carrier you land from the back not the front
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.
To beat this game legitimately without flying straight up into the air the whole time is very very very difficult.
Wow that intro music brings back memories.
Thank you. Being in a dark place, this reminded me of better times.
I love this game. I always will.
The landing sequence got me every time.
I was 11 and loved this game fun to see it again. Now I’m playing DCS f-14
Just got an NES, along with Tetris, SMB1/Duck Hunt, and Top Gun. Wish I could've been around long enough to see this release. I'm happy to be part if the "younger" generation that still cares about classics. 👍
Never forget how excited I was when I finally stuck that first landing, felt like it took forever.
One of the hardest game I've ever played in SNES. Yet one of my favorite.
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.
Well, that brings back memories. I don’t remember being very good at this game, but I always enjoyed it.
I played the hell out of this game back in the day. Even had the quickshot joystick.
Friend of mine…Josh Dusseau in Toledo owned the all time high score of this game. He got an absolutely insane score blowing the then current top score by more than double. He photographed it and sent it in to some magazine from the time and they published it. Funny secret, the power flashed during a game and when the screen came back on, the score had glitched to the high score.
We had the movie and the game and even the documentary and I was such a f-14 nerd I got 2 different colored top gun shirts with the f-14 on it. I was incredibly happy. I watched the movie so much I wore out the vhs tape. But I LOVED this game. I never could make it to stage 3 because of the refueling and landing. And with the movie coming out soon I hope it brings back that nostalgia feeling again
Awesome to look back at this .. loved this game so much. Made me think I was Tom Cruise. Nowadays playing DCS and still having fun. Just not pretending to be Tom anymore.
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
Jeez all the memories came flooding back
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.
The sound effects are amazing for the time
5:17 The most terrifying 3 seconds of my gaming childhood
I was always amazed how giant the plane is to compare with that little man on the deck :D
I played this as a kid all the time. Those dog fights are tough.
WITH A TEAR IN MY EYE! You did it!!
This game was one of the hardest games to beat for me. But I love playing air simulation games because of Top Gun.
Grandes recordações da minha juventude, obrigado pelo vídeo! Parabéns!
Verdade. Eu tinha esse cartucho. Era dos meus favoritos e sempre achei um dos melhores jogos baseados em filmes já feitos. Olha a qualidade gráfica e sonora desse jogo.
I still on this top gun and top gun 2 For the NES. Great games for their time.
Man! My first Sim Carrier landing! Those were the days! Lol
This brings back a lot of memories 👍👍😊