Top Gun
103K plays 1986 #Simulation
Top Gun is a shoot 'em up combat flight simulation game based on the 1986 film of the same name. It was developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in North America in November 1987, Japan in December 1987, and then in Europe a year later. It is an adaptation of VS. Top Gun, a 1987 Nintendo VS. System arcade game also by Konami. As the second game to establish the Top Gun game series, it was followed by Top Gun: The Second Mission. It is known for its extremely high difficulty.
From Wikipedia's article Top Gun (1987 video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
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Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
4.0 Great job!
Players 81 · 319 votes
No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.
Review scorecard
- Graphics 4.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 4.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 4.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 4.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Players 81 · 319 votes. The same 81/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.
What the reviews talk about
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What the critics said
Steve Jarratt of ACE praised the sound effects and wrote that Top Gun "is visually sparse but the sprites are extremely effective – especially in the air-to-air combat".
— ACE (Steve Jarratt)
The magazine concluded, "While Top Gun's a fun blast, it hasn't got any lasting pull."
— Total!, 1993
Eugene Lacey of Computer and Video Games praised the graphics and sound, and was surprised by "the level of sophistication that the designers have achieved" with the gameplay considering the limited number of buttons on the NES controller.
— Computer and Video Games (Eugene Lacey)· about another version
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Top Gun (1987 video game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
Scores
- ACE 1989 808/1000 (other versions)
- AllGame 4/5 (other versions)
- Computer and Video Games 1989 82% (other versions)
- Total! 1993 69% ; (other versions)
- The Games Machine 1989 65% (other versions)
- Player One 1990 70/100 (other versions)
- Power Play 1988 4/10 ; (other versions)
From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.
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