"I love all the useless information on the control board. Altitude? Speed? I mean, really, what does it matter?" If only you knew how important those would be for the landing sequence.
It seems to me trying to match the altitude and then speed and just ignore the ""up up" "down down" "speed up" "slow down" prompts is the best way to go, though I never landed successfully either.
This game brings back great memories, man. Back when I was a kid, my dad had this game for his old NES, and we were playing it when I visited him one weekend. During visitation, my grandparents(his parents) would come over and we'd all hang. One day, dad and I were playing this (he had a joystick for the NES) and grandad asked for the controller(he flew planes in WW2 and the Korean war). He got the high score and never died and beat the game, and he'd never played vidjya a day in his life.
@@christophmatthews4313 a child's perspective is oftenly overexaggerated. I remember as a kid seeing this monkey bar in the shape of a rocket as a kid it looked like it was 3 stories tall, when I returned to the park 17 years later the rocket was as tall as me not 3 stories.
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In celebration of this, I decided to dance around my place in my undies w/ my collar popped while wearing sunglasses... wrong movie but I'm 'Crusin just for you lol ;D Happy Birthday
+SuLu “allupin” yourface Soz for late reply just came from school Also would you believe my school is 7 hours long and I'm only in 4th Grade listening to Scott Pilgrim Music Lying on my ass also it's either my teacher never give us homework on purpose or he forgot if he forgot that would be funny as hell (P.S My birthday is on the 28th of June Alienware here I come!)
Such a brutal period in a man's life. You're in your prime, 25 years old, and then it feels like a year passes and BAM you're 40. Way worse than going from 15 to 30 or 10 to 25.
@@TRJ2241987 only if you don’t wanna be 40. We need to stop telling ourselves that 40 and up is some how less valuable than 20s, it’s nonsense, If you only care for the mid 20s and 30s then it’s gonna be a very depressing life. Life is what you make it.
As a child I never managed to land. I revisited the game today for an hour and managed to land and also refuel. It took me a few attempts, the key was to know that you can use A to speed up and B to slow down. Those keys are usually for firing the cannon and missiles, go figure. I haven't reached mission three as I was shot out of the sky by a flaming cannon ball.
+NSPcrazY112 This would be good for a bonus round in "Tic Tac Dough" where you can replace the dragon with the Nerd and he would either say "A**" and "F***" if a contestant makes a mistake where you pick a wrong number.
One can land - but it is so hard and imprecise that one often flies the missions perfect but end up running out of lives later on in the game soly based on the failed landings. Even if one nails a few it isn't enough...
Landing isn't actually hard. You just need to aim higher than suggested. Same with the refuel. You need to master both of those before beating the game.
I watched this video 2 days ago and it brought back memories of 1987 when I played this game and could not land the plane on the aircraft carrier to save my own life. So I bought a copy of Top Gun from a local video game store and ended up landing the god damn plane after the second try. It took 27 years but I finally did it!
According to his re-review in the Back to the Future Revisited episode, altitude and speed are actually important when landing. The radar monitor tells you the altitude and speed to execute a proper landing, and as long as those are correct and you're headed in the right direction, the plane should land. (Of course, James still fails at it.)
Mission 3:BLOW SHIT UP! *Danger Zone starts playing* Mission 4:VENT YOUR ANGER AND DESTROY THE TV! AVGN:DIIIEEEEE!!! *He punches the tv screen,hadoukens it,and sonic booms it*
Highway to the Danger Zone 🎶 Awesome video!! Wasn't a big fan of the flight simulators for the SNES, and this one looks basically the same. Dunno why everyone wanted to make it so hard to land on an aircraft carrier...
2:56 is one of my favorite moments in the series history. I love that so damn much. "Asss! FUCK!" I found a 10 hour loop of the Nerd saying "Ass!" and played it throughout class in my sophomore year. Good times.
Bought this yesterday at a used game shop, spent half an hour fiddling with the cartridge in the NES, and played for 3 hours. It's a really good game! The controls are great, the combat is fun, and I take the lack of music as an invitation to blast danger zone
The flight controls in most planes are actually inverted. You pull down on the controls to go up and push up on them to go down. So picture the D-Pad as the controls in a plane.
6:27 just do an aileron roll (what is commonly and incorrectly referred to as a barrel roll even though thats something completely different as an aileron roll involves constantly tilting the ailerons in one direction so you spin) to dodge the missiles
the flight controls are inverted: top of the controller is down, while the bottom of the controller is up. you push the buttons accordingly when instructed to do so. makes refueling and landing soooo much easier. lol
2:57 one of the most iconic AVGN moments.
Me always playing clash royale and i have the same reaction
@@hayge7262 clash royale is dead
2:58*
Me when I'm 2nd place in Fortnite solos
*2:55
"If purgatory exists, this is what it is: Top Gun for the NES."
Quote of the century.
Time traveler here, i can confirm that it is indeed the quote of the decade
You know this episode is a classic when he was still called the Angry Nintendo Nerd.
Pow3rh0use no shit its ep 10
Damn...
Pow3rh0use I guess back then he only reviewed NES games.
Andres Acosta which do you prefer the nerd from now or back here
+harley king Who the hell cares? It's still the same guy!
"I love all the useless information on the control board. Altitude? Speed? I mean, really, what does it matter?"
If only you knew how important those would be for the landing sequence.
He figured that out in a later episode! 🤓
It seems to me trying to match the altitude and then speed and just ignore the ""up up" "down down" "speed up" "slow down" prompts is the best way to go, though I never landed successfully either.
@@drl5002 you just need to have speed less then 300
8 years later and this man is still a legend. We love you, James.
Same
13 years
13 years later
14 years
14 years
"And you don't want that to happen, you want to see them die"
-James Rolfe
Nice Pfp. Umineko is one of my all time favorites.
Mission 3: BLOW SHIT UP.
Mission 4: VENT YOUR ANGER AND DESTROY THE TV.
DIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!
HADOUKEN!
SONIC BOOM!
5:21
2:57 "ASSSSSSSSSSS!!!"
"FUUUUUUCK!!!"
History was made that day...
😂😂😂😂
A close up
😅😂🤣
Where did you learn to fly?
This game brings back great memories, man. Back when I was a kid, my dad had this game for his old NES, and we were playing it when I visited him one weekend. During visitation, my grandparents(his parents) would come over and we'd all hang. One day, dad and I were playing this (he had a joystick for the NES) and grandad asked for the controller(he flew planes in WW2 and the Korean war). He got the high score and never died and beat the game, and he'd never played vidjya a day in his life.
Why……do I not believe you?
@@christophmatthews4313 I mean it is the internet. You can choose to believe or disbelieve whatever, that's your prerogative.
@@christophmatthews4313 a child's perspective is oftenly overexaggerated. I remember as a kid seeing this monkey bar in the shape of a rocket as a kid it looked like it was 3 stories tall, when I returned to the park 17 years later the rocket was as tall as me not 3 stories.
@@jcman-lp6lg we had rocket ship parks in the 80's
haha i doubt that
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I'm definitely getting this and the movie for my birth day coming in a few days 😀
AVGN I liked Topgun and I dont see whats so bad about the landing I mean its easy for me but maybe not for you.
In celebration of this, I decided to dance around my place in my undies w/ my collar popped while wearing sunglasses... wrong movie but I'm 'Crusin just for you
lol ;D Happy Birthday
+SuLu “allupin” yourface Soz for late reply just came from school Also would you believe my school is 7 hours long and I'm only in 4th Grade listening to Scott Pilgrim Music Lying on my ass also it's either my teacher never give us homework on purpose or he forgot if he forgot that would be funny as hell (P.S My birthday is on the 28th of June Alienware here I come!)
He already has. Thought not the nerd way
When he made this video. He was 26. He’s now 40.
he aged like morgan freeman
not at all
Such a brutal period in a man's life. You're in your prime, 25 years old, and then it feels like a year passes and BAM you're 40. Way worse than going from 15 to 30 or 10 to 25.
@@TRJ2241987 only if you don’t wanna be 40. We need to stop telling ourselves that 40 and up is some how less valuable than 20s, it’s nonsense, If you only care for the mid 20s and 30s then it’s gonna be a very depressing life. Life is what you make it.
HE’S 40?!
@@CurtisGabrielMusic 🙌
All this years I thought I was the only idiot that couldn't land that plane...
Conversus you made me spit out my juice. lol
:D
Conversus It took me a lot of practice to land it. A couple of times I actually got the refuel plane to hookup.
Use the power glove
+Conversus Maybe you'd find it easier if you were..
*Puts on Aviators*
Inverted.
nobody in the world says "ASS!" as well as Jaime
Did you mean James?
Jaime
JrSadFish james
não sabia que voce assistia avgn
SomeOne translate please
No matter what the time zone, an AVGN episode is being watched right now. That's how awesome he is
The very late 2:58 is the thumbnail for this channel.
Just felt like pointing it out.
ASS! FUCK!
Thank you!
@@MikeSparksMusic And it still is to this day! It's just edited now. 🤓
2:57
EEEEYASS!
FAAAAAWK!
Where did you learn to land ? 🐸
theone itself noooooooo not this bitch again
She doesn't show up until 3 years.
Where did you learn to be a asshole
Why's there a picture of a frog. 🐸
@@Simon0
SHADILAY 🐸
As a child I never managed to land. I revisited the game today for an hour and managed to land and also refuel. It took me a few attempts, the key was to know that you can use A to speed up and B to slow down. Those keys are usually for firing the cannon and missiles, go figure. I haven't reached mission three as I was shot out of the sky by a flaming cannon ball.
AAAAASSSS! FUUUUCK!
+NSPcrazY112 This would be good for a bonus round in "Tic Tac Dough" where you can replace the dragon with the Nerd and he would either say "A**" and "F***" if a contestant makes a mistake where you pick a wrong number.
+Musicradio77 Television Network Why did you censor it?
RandomQuentin And incorrectly at that. 'Ass', is three letters & 'Fuck', is four.
Musicradio77 Television Network What is Tic Tac Dough?
It was a game show hosted by Wink Martindale.
The best part is that there is actually a sequel to this game where EVERYTHING is fixed that James talked about!
2:58 - The iconic moment that started it all.
3:14 This transition is actually really smooth!
Be honest, who else came back here to see this before seeing Top Gun Maverick?
I was here after Top Gun Maverick
✋
@@Gxhbro so was I
Top Gun Madick
Me too
These old videos are the best, much more natural acting. Even though the voices are dubbed over, it seems more natural.
ikr, better content than PewDiePie
@@x-Abraham-x2 of course it is
I didn't think that he was voiced over for the monologues when he is sane
Somebody needs to make a 10 hour loop of the AVGN saying: ASS! FFUUUUUCK!
MtnDrew Just the "ASSSSS!" part would be fine with me. 😂
2:58
AAASSSS!!!!
FUUUUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!!!!!!
When it says up, you actually have to press the down arrow on the D-PAD.
+Will Nachand yay, controlls that i enjoy
+Will Nachand Damn. Making that clearer would be as easy as saying "Nose up!" instead of just "up!".
It even clearly states the intended attitude and Speed, making the landing pretty easy, but he apparently never noticed that.
@@Birdmaster92 I'd still rather super glue my ass shut and chug a bottle of laxative.
2:56
Luke Cage Fan what we all came here for lol
AAAASSSSS
FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!
*AVGN intro plays* He's gonna take you back to the past, to play the shitty games that suck ass.
"aasss" Classic.
Hmmm, he calls the altitude and speed gauges useless. No wonder he can't land the plane. ;-)
ScienceWinsEveryTime
Yeah he did a review about in one of his later episodes correcting it
in the back to the future rerevisited
One can land - but it is so hard and imprecise that one often flies the missions perfect but end up running out of lives later on in the game soly based on the failed landings. Even if one nails a few it isn't enough...
I didnt find it too hard actually
who is rewatching this again now and is having their mind blown now knowing that Tom Cruise was playing this game as the Nerd THIS WHOLE TIME??!
Landing isn't actually hard. You just need to aim higher than suggested. Same with the refuel. You need to master both of those before beating the game.
***** English major?
Refueling is easy, its the landing part thats tricky
lol you just have to not do what it tellss you, classic
I watched this video 2 days ago and it brought back memories of 1987 when I played this game and could not land the plane on the aircraft carrier to save my own life. So I bought a copy of Top Gun from a local video game store and ended up landing the god damn plane after the second try. It took 27 years but I finally did it!
That was so funny with the docking of the plain well done, nearly shat myself laughing :)
2024 is coming to an end and im still watching this... James is the GOAT...
DANGER ZONE!
We never did find out what k-logg had in the case
+Stevy Chips its like pulp fiction
+Nemo Star only not good
Do ThE dAnGeR zOnE dAnCe
Topgun: Maverick brought me back to this game
According to his re-review in the Back to the Future Revisited episode, altitude and speed are actually important when landing. The radar monitor tells you the altitude and speed to execute a proper landing, and as long as those are correct and you're headed in the right direction, the plane should land. (Of course, James still fails at it.)
Going to see the new Top Gun movie tomorrow. Figured I better re-watch this to get back up to speed.
Mission 3:BLOW SHIT UP!
*Danger Zone starts playing*
Mission 4:VENT YOUR ANGER AND DESTROY THE TV!
AVGN:DIIIEEEEE!!!
*He punches the tv screen,hadoukens it,and sonic booms it*
him saying ASS is gonna be my new ringtone
basticle is it still your ring tone 10 months later
Is it still your [text] ringtone 2 years later?
The opening sequence shows how thin James, Kyle, and we were back then.
Aren't they still pretty thin though
Highway to the Danger Zone 🎶
Awesome video!! Wasn't a big fan of the flight simulators for the SNES, and this one looks basically the same. Dunno why everyone wanted to make it so hard to land on an aircraft carrier...
The "Top Gun" episode never fails to leave me dying from laughter. It's a classic! 😂👌
2:56 is one of my favorite moments in the series history. I love that so damn much. "Asss! FUCK!" I found a 10 hour loop of the Nerd saying "Ass!" and played it throughout class in my sophomore year. Good times.
1:25 oh the irony
Came here after watching the new top gun Maverick trailer on July 18.
The landing scene at the end of Top Gun Maverick immediately reminds me of this video.
I was expecting Tom Cruise to crash spontaneously and it would’ve been funny
Bought this yesterday at a used game shop, spent half an hour fiddling with the cartridge in the NES, and played for 3 hours. It's a really good game! The controls are great, the combat is fun, and I take the lack of music as an invitation to blast danger zone
🤡
lol funny this shows up in youtube 15 years later
as maverick comes out
After Top Gun: Maverick, we need a revisit of this video and maybe include other Top Gun games!
16 years later and still a classic
2:57 - A legend is born
LMAOOO!!! @ 5:24
"HADOOOKEN!"
"SONIC BOOOOOM!"
LMAOOO!!!
lol I remember playing this back in the day. It was less dogfighting against other planes or bombing things and more a landing simulator.
this is me when ever I'm playing one of the halo games on legendary difficulty. 5:08
I actually was able to land a plane. I played this on my NES a few days ago.
try doing that with a power glove *insert sinister trollface expression here*
James landed the plane easily with the power glove
TheFruitMugger true,
Impossible?! How did you do it?
@@TheFruitMugger probably edited
4:05 I just performed what he said on that game on my GTA game and I got all guns infident ammo and permanent invincibility.
jesus christ all avgn videos changed the thumbnail in 2019... what a lovely day!
booker dewitt is that good or bad? If it’s bad I’m with you. If it’s good ok then.
My god, I watched this ten years ago....
The face he makes when he says "ASSSSSSS!"
I like how he actually managed to land the plane with the Power Glove in that episode!
I'm here after top gun maverick
I might go one further and claim Top Gun Maverick the best movie ever created in all of cinematic history.
The view at 2:56 shows the jet approaching the carrier from the wrong side.
13 years and still the best NES games reviewer ♥
The flight controls in most planes are actually inverted. You pull down on the controls to go up and push up on them to go down. So picture the D-Pad as the controls in a plane.
was exactly what I was thinking when it said "Up up!" as he crashed into the water, Lol! He was tilting his nose down!
WhiteRoseSamurai The game didn't make that clear though.
I was born the day after this aired, it’s been my favourite episode since I found that out.
I bet people back then were all like: "Where's Shitpickle?" as they thought it were going to be one of the main characters in the show. Hehe.
I remember watching this on the CM site back in 2006. Good times.
The landing sequence was legendary. It really should be an Olympic event.
At refueling sequence: "Ah, so this must be how airplanes breed!"
6:27 just do an aileron roll (what is commonly and incorrectly referred to as a barrel roll even though thats something completely different as an aileron roll involves constantly tilting the ailerons in one direction so you spin) to dodge the missiles
The part from 4:05 - 4:18 is my all time favourite
Rap
Crazy that it's coming up on the 13th anniversary of this episodes release in September! Wow!
14 years now...
@@alexcaruso8766 16 years
Amazing I’m still watching this to this day.
I just tried out Top Gun 1 for the first time. I've landed perfectly and also refueled pretty well. That wasn't hard!
DerKontrollerInMir James is gonna kill you if he hears this....
4:11 he predicted Friday night funkin!
Dance Dance Revolution exists…
I can land on an Aircraft carrier in X-Plane 9, but I can't land on the carrier in Top Gun.
Wow, this version of the intro sounds great. Much better than the one used regularly
Gee, I wonder why this review is appearing on my main page? LoL
Now we have a second top gun and it’s not called the second mission sadly
Who is here after watching Top Gun Maverick?
Me
2:58 that greatest AVGN line to this day.
Well, here comes *Maverick.*
"Where did you learn to fly?"
2:57 Maldición 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
MALDICIÓN 🗣🔥🔥
Escucha el de Portugués XD.
toda una joya la inteligencia artificial
the flight controls are inverted: top of the controller is down, while the bottom of the controller is up. you push the buttons accordingly when instructed to do so. makes refueling and landing soooo much easier. lol
When I was a kid, I played this a ton and could land almost every time... not sure why it is so hard for others.
In the past we had Top Gun...
Now we have Air Control...
That game was amazing (sarcasm)
Steam removed it not to long ago.
***** Please make a salon. Do you see these pillows?
***** But do you know what they are planing?
Yes.
The sequel of the game came out before Maverick came out.
I love how you slip into Tourette's mode whenever a game really pisses you off... It cracks me up every time! XD
2:58 My reaction to me getting killed in Dark Souls.
I didn't know that there were Dutch subtitles... They are actually pretty good
The new Top Gun movie is amazing!
That moment when you're casually watching AVGN episodes, and watch one on the episode's birthday.
Coming back to this in honor of Top Gun Maverick dropping
2:51 up up left down right down right HADOOOOKEN!
12 years go... geez i feel old.
Whooou, you even uploaded the original episode with the top gun theme song in the background? Awesome!!