Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/top-gun-landing/

62•todsacerdoti•1h ago

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drbig•1h ago

Lers of Spoil: this is about a NES game ;-) Pretty cool still, especially if one's into reverse engineering.

unwind•1h ago

Meta: Should have "NES" added to title to clarify it's about a game, not (as I thought) the movie.

ethagknight•1h ago

The mission accomplished regardless of crash or land is hilarious

ceejayoz•1h ago

Very prescient, too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech

blitzar•1h ago

Come on, buddy, pull up. Pull up, Cougar.

pikkoloassembly•1h ago

Oh god the trauma this brought back.

Scene_Cast2•1h ago

If you're into carrier landings and have a VR headset, I highly recommend checking out VTOL VR.

symmetricsaurus•54m ago

Don't think there was ever a Top Gun for Virtual Boy.

rob74•1h ago

> After about a minute of flying the game checks your state and plays a little cutscene showing either a textbook landing or an expensive fireball. Either way, you get a “Mission Accomplished!” and go to the next level (after all, you don’t own that plane, the taxpayers do):

For realism's (and comedy's) sake, they could have shown a pixel ejecting from the five (I think) pixels that form the jet before it explodes into a fireball, then floating down on a tiny parachute and being rescued by a tiny boat.

...but seriously, you didn't even get your score reduced for crashing the plane on landing?

bitwize•1h ago

In the "bad ending" to Rocket Knight Adventures (complete the game on Easy or lower), you actually see Sparkster leave the Pig Star's crashing escape pod as a pixel, then there's a little sneezing sound as a tiny parachute deploys. It's kind of disappointing, but then to see a real ending you're supposed to beat the game on a higher difficulty.

thinkingtoilet•1h ago

I remember this being next to impossible as a kid. The whole game was tough, but this was on another level.

ghc•53m ago

I never played Top Gun, but I did grow up playing "Turn and Burn: No Fly Zone" for the SNES. All these years later, it's still amazing to me how much the graphics improved from one console generation to the next. I don't remember any other console transition being so consequential from a graphics perspective.

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