Commodore 64 Longplay [172] Top Gun (EU)
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Played by: MadMatty
Top Gun, developed and released by Ocean Software in 1986. Also published on disk in the US by Thunder Mountain in 1987.
"Top Gun puts you in the fighter pilot's seat of an F14 Tomcat. 3-D vector graphics and split screen display allow one or two players to combat head to head or against the computer. Your armaments in this nerve tingling aerial duel are heat seeking missiles and 20mm rapid fire cannon. Many skills have to be brought in to play such as reflexes, maneuvering ability and accuracy to become the best of the best. Top Gun mavericks enter the danger zone!"
Another game to add to the bad use of a movie license pile especially by Ocean Software. This manages to be worse than the Spectrum version by having a terrible representation of dogfighting as the planes seem to be moving in an out of the known universe defying all known physics. Not to mention lazily reusing the title music of Comic bakery.
In the 1 player game shown here, you get three lives. To complete a level you need to destroy 3 enemy planes. As you progress each level increases the difficulty. The game appears endless as it stops displaying level numbers after 9. You get two weapons. The cannon or the missile. You need to land 25 shots of the cannon to kill and it overheats quickly. The missile takes 3 seconds to lock on before firing and only takes 1 hit to kill. Flares are defensive and ideally used when a missile has locked onto you
The difficulty is more from how bad the game plays as apposed to the enemy playing better. See the Spectrum game for how its supposed to play although its still a bad game overall. The two player game is settled the old Navy way. You both get 3 lives and the first one to lose them all.. loses!
Note that the initial title screen is from the Top Gun crack released CSixx by replacing the Thunder Mountain logo of the US disk game.
00:00:00 Title Music
00:03:25 Game
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