Top Gun was also a quite sucessful
fighter game for the
NES. It was a quite good (if not at some points confusing), first person
pilot shoot-em up game. The purpose was to pilot your
F-14 through four
missions. You had your choice of three types of missiles to accomodate yourself with (they all had a basically linear power to quantity ratio). The
landing and
refueling sections were quite
original, and no
console game since has seen a similar
concept. It had amazingly little to do with the
movie, but was easily associated with due to it's big name. It was made considerably easier with the use of the
NES Max or
NES Advantage (as the unlimited ammo guns were a breeze on turbo).
It was released in 1987 by
Konami, following the incredibly
popular 1986
action film.