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Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

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Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

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post #16

Classically featured on the Angry Video Game Nerd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZTUX1bwJ0

You gotta point people to the original episode, it's classic certifiably unhinged AVGN. "What a shitload of fuck! This game chews turds! This game sucks your balls off and spits them up your ass!" https://youtu.be/ofM11nPzFo0

Hearing the AVGN absurd obscenities will always give me a nostalgia bomb.

Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

#162
post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How in the hell is that tanker flying at ~1,200 knots (1,400mph)!? That is nearly Mach 2!

Same way your F-14 was able to carry up to 40 air-to-air missiles, unlimited cannon rounds, and the space shuttle at the end of the game is tougher and takes more fire to destroy than the aircraft carrier you destroy in mission 2.

Don't forget that you somehow refuel your missiles from the tanker!

Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

#163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same way your F-14 was able to carry up to 40 air-to-air missiles, unlimited cannon rounds, and the space shuttle at the end of the game is tougher and takes more fire to destroy than the aircraft carrier you destroy in mission 2.

Don't forget that you somehow refuel your missiles from the tanker!

I completely forgot! Maybe this game was meant to frighten the Soviets.

Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

#164
post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You gotta point people to the original episode, it's classic certifiably unhinged AVGN. "What a shitload of fuck! This game chews turds! This game sucks your balls off and spits them up your ass!" https://youtu.be/ofM11nPzFo0

Hearing the AVGN absurd obscenities will always give me a nostalgia bomb.

He's still going, but he's not as "angry" as he was circa 2006-2011.

He did that deleted episode on Custer's Revenge, and then he went back and made it even funnier by censoring it.

ORIGINAL: https://cinemassacre.com/atari-porn-angry-video-game-nerd-av...

CENSORED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdIQFoaSr4

Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

#165
post #92

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I didn't either! Granted, I wasn't good at video games in general. And this one infuriated me, because I loved it. I could easily beat the first level, but then I crashed on carrier landing. This happened for years . I only ever saw the first level of this game. Then one day, while staying at my elementary afterschool sitter's house, one of the kids there told me he played Top Gun as well. He could land, but wasn't v…

The blog says that failing to land on the carrier didn't actually fail the mission. Maybe you're misremembering? I just remember this game being so frustrating that I never replayed it.

Entirely possible I misremembered. As another commenter pointed out, it might be that I never got past mission 2. On further recollection, I think it was just Top Gun: The Second Mission that I owned. I remember playing both, but it might have been the second that vexed me the most.
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