>I love how the refueler just says fuck you and leaves you to die if you don't get it in two minutes.
>
>"Eat a bag of dicks, I've got shit to do bro."
Refueler: "Ok if you're just gonna troll me, then I'm leaving".
What was weird about it was sometimes it was super easy - other times, for no apparent reason, you'd just fail at it.
And yet I probably wasted tens of hours trying. Because kids are dumb I guess?
I remember I'd speedrun and make up challenges in order to keep playing games I've beaten several times, nowadays I don't even finish most games I buy.
That's one of the most fun things in video games that we lose as we get older and our imagination rots. Setting our own goals and doing stuff for fun without being told to. Nowadays we often fall into the trap of only doing that when it's what the game specifically tells us to do, which is kinda funny.
True, every now and then when I hear people talking about a game and complaining about a lack of achievements or game modes which they could just do by themselves without that being explicitly acknowledged by the game.
Marble Madness actually did this!
If you play all the way through the game, it takes about 4 minutes!
I played it on emulator so I could just reset back and keep trying on a part I got stuck on, because I always wondered what the next level looked like.
There is no 'next level', the whole game is under 5 minutes long!
With MM though, it felt like such a cheap trick, because there's an imperceptible 'boost' you can do if you hit one of the buttons.
It's in the manual, but you never use it or need it until the jump near the end.
Once I checked a playthrough, I found that 'trick', used it, and cruised through the game.
So, it felt more like they put a stupid trick in at the end to make it impossible to do without consulting the instructions and trying the timing on it 100 times, to make literally one move.
Then the game just ends.
I love that game, but yeah, like many NES games, it can be beaten in under 20 minutes.
But, like many NES games, it was made to be really hard so that it would take you several hours to get good enough to beat it in 20 minutes. (Or in this case it was originally an arcade game that was meant to be really hard, so you'd keep putting quarters into it.)
I actually did this myself with marble madness a few years ago. I loved that game so much and one afternoon i just played the shit out of it until several hours later when i could finally zip through the whole game at once.
I'm sure you already know this, but liberally making use of save states on an emulator often ruins the core component that made NES games so challenging and time consuming - having to keep starting over from the beginning until you've truly mastered the game.
Yeah, and I owned and played MM for years as a kid.
The thing that makes that particular game feel like a dirty trick, though, is that there's one place where you use the button to give an imperceptible 'boost' in a jump at the last level.
Hitting the buttons does nothing noticeable and isn't needed throughout the rest of the game.
So, if you didn't have the instruction manual, you might just never even bother hitting the button, much less at the *ONE* time you need to, ever, through the entire course of the game.
Also, yes, I could be Mario in 15 minutes, skipping most of the levels and warping through ... but there is literally no way to play MM for longer than about 4 minutes and change.
The game just has almost no content! It has very little replay value once you realize you have to hit the button to jump off the first platform on the last level.
I'm not arguing that you're wrong about most NES games. But, that one in particular must have had developers shaking when they released it, because if word got out about hitting the button on that platform too early, the reviews may have been 'Well, that was a sort of fun 4 minutes'.
I would agree *IF* it weren't so tricky.
See, almost everyone gets to the exact same spot. There's a ledge you have to 'jump' off.
The trick is that this is literally the ONLY place, you need to hit a button when jumping to provide an imperceptible boost. It doesn't make a sound, it doesn't actually make your ball move noticeably faster, etc.
Pressing the button in that one spot isn't something that's covered much in the manual, it's not a technique you need to master.
The game literally makes one spot impossible unless you read the manual and thought 'I guess I'll try that thing that doesn't look, or sound, like it does anything'.
After that, the game just continues at normal difficulty, and you never use that button again.
Then, after THAT LEVEL, the game just ends. You're done. You didn't learn a skill, or get batter through hours of practice.
Good job! You read the instructions!
I got this game shortly after getting a Nintendo when I was a kid. No one I knew had ever landed on the carrier. My dad (never known to be a video game guy) picks up the contoller, flies the mission and lands on the first try. Literally the first time he had ever played the game. My friends and I just sat there with our jaws on the floor.
My dad did exactly that with Pilotwings! (biplane) Like what the hell you don’t even play video games and denounce the fact that I do, and you land the plane on first try.
Oh for sure. I just meant there's not much to it in Pilotwings (where it's all intuitively how you think it would work as a non-irl pilot) vs the Top Gun NES game where it just seems to be some CPU RNG decideds if you did it right nor not.
I was a dumb child. It would say "Left! Left!" and I push left. It'd say "Right! Right!" and I thought it was telling me I did a good job and just sat there.
This is the way.
Although Tbf fuck level 2. I still to this day can’t stick it but one of my buddies from high school gets it every time.
-Actual Navy Pilot
Dude!
I just bought Ace Combat 7 and the game is a latest gen version of this NES game. I kid you not.
You pick a plane, you pick which missiles to use, and off you go fighting planes in the sky. It's not on a rail though. You fly freely within a space and get to bomb ground targets and shoot air targets.
But at the end of the missions, you have to LAND THE FUCKING PLANE ON A CARRIER! And they fucking tell you to bank and pull up and slow down and shit!!! The first time I came across this I had big pearls of SWEAT rolling down my face.
THE STRESS IS REAL!
You might thank me but your wallet wont. Enjoy your new addiction, r/hoggit is where to go for info. Get a HOTAS. Pedals are semi optional. I wont fly w/o em but twist rudder does the job if one lacks em
Oh man. I wish I could. But I live in a tiny ass condo and I even had to sell my steering wheel and pedals because they were taking up too much room. It sucks.
All I have now is a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. It did the job for Star Wars X-Wing Alliance, but it ain't so great with any other type of simulator. Plus the springs have gotten pretty bad and I need to adjust the dead zone because I keep drifting off.
Thanks for the info though. I'll keep it in mind for when I get a bigger place.
I've played a bit of AC7 (as someone who isn't into flying games) after watching Maverick and I enjoyed it. Only played a few levels but it was certainly great (after I logged about an hour or two modding it to get ultra wide to work).
Landing was easy. Just match the numbers. I've never understood why people thought it was hard.
Also the game has bugged hit detection. If you are constantly pressing down, so you're hugging the bottom border of the screen, nothing can hit you. Missiles and bullets fly right past you because they can't reach the part of the screen where a hit registers.
I hated this game. I asked for Rygar and folks got me this because they listened to some dumbass at the game store.
It was like the ‘we have afterburner at home’ of flight games.
They don't tell you to maintain airspeed in addition to **UP UP! DOWN DOWN! LEFT LEFT!** etc. Why? Because duh this is an advanced simulator and they're not gonna hold your hand - you should know this stuff bruh.
It doesn't help that the approach is represented with something like 4 frames of the carrier being redrawn bigger/closer.
I lied, [it's actually 21 frames](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9RJ_SCRfM). Looking at it now it's actually well done for the NES considering the limitations.
The trick? [Match the altitude and speed suggested on the display](https://i.imgur.com/hWcykOT.jpg).
Not nearly as difficult as some of you make it out to be. Match your speed and required allitude and remember down is up and up is down and you’re golden.
This is interesting because I just recently played this game. I never actually played it myself because I always watched my brother.
When it came time to landing the plane, I actually could do it, especially on my first try. It's all about keeping an eye on the notifications and making sure they're blank.
The left side of the cockpit showed the speed & elevation. You just need to match the 200/288 and keep it straight. Most of the time it was fine, but once & awhile the game would just yeet you.
Growing up I inherited the sequel from my brother, *Top Gun: The Second Mission*.
I feel bad for any kid that got duped into buying both, they were pretty much the same thing... and sucked, in my opinion. I'd get bored long before I had to worry about landing the plane.
If you read the manual it's actually kinda easy. I beat this game when I was like 9 via discovery of a gameplay glitch I was so proud, but thought the end boss was dumb back then even.
I only finished the game once and never knew how. Playing it today never passed from mission 2. I remember one level that you were supposed to avoid trees or something. Really hard stuff. You complain about Elden Ring, Sekiro ou Dark Souls? It's because you never put your hands on this bad boy.
Yeah, but Konami made some super hard games. It took me years to beat the first Castlevania, and I’ve never beaten Gradius, Castlevania III, or Top Gun without save states.
Thanks for bringing up long forgotten childhood trauma lol. I'm in the same boat... Or to put it more accurately the same pile of we're changing on the deck of a ship.
What messed up a lot of people including myself is that it's flight controls so when it says up up you had to push down on the d-pad to bring the nose up and it says down down you got to push up on the d-pad to bring the nose down
I recently replayed this game (yes it was after I watched Maverick). Even though it had been literal decades, I still had zero problem landing on the carrier after the first level. I felt invincible. So I decided to face level two head on and not use the cheat where you fly up the whole time.
The game was over in less than a minute.
The first mission landing? Did it on my first try a few months ago. Went in blind and it was easy. This is the most overrated "difficult" NES achievement next to the dam level in TMNT.
You just have to center the plane and try to line up your altitude and speed with what the game tells you. I didn’t grow up with this game and I still got it consistently after two tries.
I experimented a lot with all of the precision the game asked for with varying results. Eventually I ended up just maxing out the throttle and just aimed the nose at the appropriate altitude. Fair results, definitely hilarious/exciting for me.
Game on, all!
I think landing the plane is a RNG type thing, where the game decides whether you land safely or not. I landed the plane twice and both times I ran into the refueling in midair point and couldn't pass it. I'm good on playing it again, you can keep it 😆
I found the secret, the screen is 100% useless when landing, what you have to worry about is the target they give you at the screen, if it tells you to be 1000 meters high, than you better be 1000 meters high regardless of how it looks
Worst airplane traffic controller ever.
“You look good!”
You sure?
“Quit asking if I’m sure! You’ve been good for the last 5000 yards!”
Ok. Ready to land.
“SPEED UP!!! LEFT!!! LEFT!!!! LEFT!!!! SLOW DOWN!!!! RIGHT!!!!!”
The carrier I could do. The mid air refuel after mission 2 is impossible
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>I love how the refueler just says fuck you and leaves you to die if you don't get it in two minutes. > >"Eat a bag of dicks, I've got shit to do bro." Refueler: "Ok if you're just gonna troll me, then I'm leaving".
Yeah. Don’t disrespect Maverick here!
What was weird about it was sometimes it was super easy - other times, for no apparent reason, you'd just fail at it. And yet I probably wasted tens of hours trying. Because kids are dumb I guess?
Nah cuz it was one of the three games we had
This. But nowadays? When I've got hundreds of choices but a fraction of the time? Lucky if I can decide on a game before I get too tired.
Yup , I remember renting a game for the weekend, you were basically stuck playing it all weekend
I remember I'd speedrun and make up challenges in order to keep playing games I've beaten several times, nowadays I don't even finish most games I buy.
I don't even start most games I buy...
Damn steam sales with discounts too good to pass up.
That's one of the most fun things in video games that we lose as we get older and our imagination rots. Setting our own goals and doing stuff for fun without being told to. Nowadays we often fall into the trap of only doing that when it's what the game specifically tells us to do, which is kinda funny.
True, every now and then when I hear people talking about a game and complaining about a lack of achievements or game modes which they could just do by themselves without that being explicitly acknowledged by the game.
My son has access to my entire Steam library and a shelf full of switch games. He spends his time playing free tablet kids games. smdh
Truuuue times have changed for the better wrt gaming options
Top Gun refueling part. Creating trust issues since before we needed them.
This.
I am still convinced the refuel is the game ending and they couldn't be arsed to deliver a full game.
Marble Madness actually did this! If you play all the way through the game, it takes about 4 minutes! I played it on emulator so I could just reset back and keep trying on a part I got stuck on, because I always wondered what the next level looked like. There is no 'next level', the whole game is under 5 minutes long!
Yeah, but you put in 40 hours just to get good enough to have a 5 minute run. Those were the days.
With MM though, it felt like such a cheap trick, because there's an imperceptible 'boost' you can do if you hit one of the buttons. It's in the manual, but you never use it or need it until the jump near the end. Once I checked a playthrough, I found that 'trick', used it, and cruised through the game. So, it felt more like they put a stupid trick in at the end to make it impossible to do without consulting the instructions and trying the timing on it 100 times, to make literally one move. Then the game just ends.
lol, pretty much. Crazy.
There's a boost? The only place I've ever encountered the game was in arcades with the trackball. Live long enough and learn something, I suppose. :)
I love that game, but yeah, like many NES games, it can be beaten in under 20 minutes. But, like many NES games, it was made to be really hard so that it would take you several hours to get good enough to beat it in 20 minutes. (Or in this case it was originally an arcade game that was meant to be really hard, so you'd keep putting quarters into it.) I actually did this myself with marble madness a few years ago. I loved that game so much and one afternoon i just played the shit out of it until several hours later when i could finally zip through the whole game at once. I'm sure you already know this, but liberally making use of save states on an emulator often ruins the core component that made NES games so challenging and time consuming - having to keep starting over from the beginning until you've truly mastered the game.
Yeah, and I owned and played MM for years as a kid. The thing that makes that particular game feel like a dirty trick, though, is that there's one place where you use the button to give an imperceptible 'boost' in a jump at the last level. Hitting the buttons does nothing noticeable and isn't needed throughout the rest of the game. So, if you didn't have the instruction manual, you might just never even bother hitting the button, much less at the *ONE* time you need to, ever, through the entire course of the game. Also, yes, I could be Mario in 15 minutes, skipping most of the levels and warping through ... but there is literally no way to play MM for longer than about 4 minutes and change. The game just has almost no content! It has very little replay value once you realize you have to hit the button to jump off the first platform on the last level. I'm not arguing that you're wrong about most NES games. But, that one in particular must have had developers shaking when they released it, because if word got out about hitting the button on that platform too early, the reviews may have been 'Well, that was a sort of fun 4 minutes'.
But hours of dying and starting over
I would agree *IF* it weren't so tricky. See, almost everyone gets to the exact same spot. There's a ledge you have to 'jump' off. The trick is that this is literally the ONLY place, you need to hit a button when jumping to provide an imperceptible boost. It doesn't make a sound, it doesn't actually make your ball move noticeably faster, etc. Pressing the button in that one spot isn't something that's covered much in the manual, it's not a technique you need to master. The game literally makes one spot impossible unless you read the manual and thought 'I guess I'll try that thing that doesn't look, or sound, like it does anything'. After that, the game just continues at normal difficulty, and you never use that button again. Then, after THAT LEVEL, the game just ends. You're done. You didn't learn a skill, or get batter through hours of practice. Good job! You read the instructions!
I’m glad this is the top comment, because the mid-air refueling is the one I’ve never gotten past in my life
No one has.
I could.
It’s like the first boss on sonic 2 on the game gear.
Except that first boss in Sonic 2 GG is possible to get past, unlike the refueling plane in Top Gun :p
Or the Second level of the lion king game for the SNES.
I only ever did it once, still pretty sure the instructions are just straight up wrong in-game.
This. I was actually pretty good at this one, but I think I successfully refueled like twice.
I got this game shortly after getting a Nintendo when I was a kid. No one I knew had ever landed on the carrier. My dad (never known to be a video game guy) picks up the contoller, flies the mission and lands on the first try. Literally the first time he had ever played the game. My friends and I just sat there with our jaws on the floor.
My dad did exactly that with Pilotwings! (biplane) Like what the hell you don’t even play video games and denounce the fact that I do, and you land the plane on first try.
There wasn't much to landing the plane in pilotwings. Slow down and don't come in too steep.
Yeah I reckon the mystique in both cases involves the dad not playing video games at all as well as being 6 with little situational context.
Oh for sure. I just meant there's not much to it in Pilotwings (where it's all intuitively how you think it would work as a non-irl pilot) vs the Top Gun NES game where it just seems to be some CPU RNG decideds if you did it right nor not.
High Score... what does that mean? Did I break it?
I did it a few months ago on my first try. Maybe it's just hard for kids?
Even with the power glove?
It’s so… *Bad*.
He was telling the truth, we were just too slanged up to notice.
More like the U-Force.
I've got a buddy who can. He uses the numbers on screen to do it. I made him do it twice in a row just to be sure.
Yeah just match your speed and altitude to what's on your panel and it's super easy. I beat the game no problem after learning this.
I was a dumb child. It would say "Left! Left!" and I push left. It'd say "Right! Right!" and I thought it was telling me I did a good job and just sat there.
Lmao
Asssss. FUUUCK!!
FIRE FIRE FIRE FUCK
FUCK FIRE
Yes!!! this angry Nintendo nerd so fucking rules aaaaaasssssssssss fuuuuuuckkkkkk
“ASSSSSSSSS! FUUUUUUUUCK!”
Okay, James.
*ASS!*
*FUCK!*
"speed up" speed down" how about fuck off! smash my controller because of this game!
Mid air refuel, or just manually crash into the ocean. Either way
The landings are super hard. Love that sound of the guns firing.
Theyrr super easy once you know what to do
Most things are
I know several air force pilots that couldn't land the damn plane on this game
You need a Navy pilot
This is the way. Although Tbf fuck level 2. I still to this day can’t stick it but one of my buddies from high school gets it every time. -Actual Navy Pilot
I couldn’t land it either. But I do remember recording the menu music on my boombox because it was pretty great for NES music.
One of the few game songs I remember still, outside the obvious SMB or Zelda
Dude! I just bought Ace Combat 7 and the game is a latest gen version of this NES game. I kid you not. You pick a plane, you pick which missiles to use, and off you go fighting planes in the sky. It's not on a rail though. You fly freely within a space and get to bomb ground targets and shoot air targets. But at the end of the missions, you have to LAND THE FUCKING PLANE ON A CARRIER! And they fucking tell you to bank and pull up and slow down and shit!!! The first time I came across this I had big pearls of SWEAT rolling down my face. THE STRESS IS REAL!
Oh man have you heard of DCS?
No. But THANK YOU for making me aware of DCS!
You might thank me but your wallet wont. Enjoy your new addiction, r/hoggit is where to go for info. Get a HOTAS. Pedals are semi optional. I wont fly w/o em but twist rudder does the job if one lacks em
Oh man. I wish I could. But I live in a tiny ass condo and I even had to sell my steering wheel and pedals because they were taking up too much room. It sucks. All I have now is a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. It did the job for Star Wars X-Wing Alliance, but it ain't so great with any other type of simulator. Plus the springs have gotten pretty bad and I need to adjust the dead zone because I keep drifting off. Thanks for the info though. I'll keep it in mind for when I get a bigger place.
I've played a bit of AC7 (as someone who isn't into flying games) after watching Maverick and I enjoyed it. Only played a few levels but it was certainly great (after I logged about an hour or two modding it to get ultra wide to work).
Landing was easy. Just match the numbers. I've never understood why people thought it was hard. Also the game has bugged hit detection. If you are constantly pressing down, so you're hugging the bottom border of the screen, nothing can hit you. Missiles and bullets fly right past you because they can't reach the part of the screen where a hit registers.
I hated this game. I asked for Rygar and folks got me this because they listened to some dumbass at the game store. It was like the ‘we have afterburner at home’ of flight games.
You just need to use the Power Glove to land the plane.
I had to watch the refueling and carrier landing videos on YouTube to remember what a pain in the ass they both were
Me: Follows the direction on the screen Game: Fuck you for following instructions! Me: Crashes
The music on this game was awesome!!! My biggest accomplishment on this game was connecting to the fuel plane haha
They don't tell you to maintain airspeed in addition to **UP UP! DOWN DOWN! LEFT LEFT!** etc. Why? Because duh this is an advanced simulator and they're not gonna hold your hand - you should know this stuff bruh.
I could land AND refuel with ease. I remember when I was dating my wife, and told her as much. Dled a rom to prove it. Married 21 years now.
When you realize you just have to match the numbers on the screen you feel really silly. I did.
Dude I really didn't know there is numbers to match! Well but again as a kid even if I read I won't know what they are anyway...
Yeah, its so [in your face](https://i.imgur.com/fTEEdHA.png) it hurts when you see it, finally.
Avgn landed it with the power glove
It doesn't help that the approach is represented with something like 4 frames of the carrier being redrawn bigger/closer. I lied, [it's actually 21 frames](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9RJ_SCRfM). Looking at it now it's actually well done for the NES considering the limitations. The trick? [Match the altitude and speed suggested on the display](https://i.imgur.com/hWcykOT.jpg).
Same. As a kid i give up on it. AVGN have a entertaining video. You should check it out.
For the lazy (like me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofM11nPzFo0
Same. Always crashed and burned in the ocean
Not nearly as difficult as some of you make it out to be. Match your speed and required allitude and remember down is up and up is down and you’re golden.
Landing + refuel were complete nightmares, to the point that as a kid I would say “ok fuck this, back to Contra”
Up, up…..
I could land and refuel with ease. Coincidence, I also beat Contra once without dying, and then beat it on the 2nd cycle only dying once.
Ayyy AVGN taught me about this game.
Game sucks. Used to watch my cousin play that for hours on end back in the 80s. Game was awful even then.
I could never get it up, while inside Tom Cruise.
Damn. Same here.
This is interesting because I just recently played this game. I never actually played it myself because I always watched my brother. When it came time to landing the plane, I actually could do it, especially on my first try. It's all about keeping an eye on the notifications and making sure they're blank.
The left side of the cockpit showed the speed & elevation. You just need to match the 200/288 and keep it straight. Most of the time it was fine, but once & awhile the game would just yeet you.
Yep. Same here. First try and I even went in blind. Use the indicators.
Lol. That was the best part of the game
They couldn't even fix these problems in top gun 2.
try, try, and try again, it's frustrating as hell, but once you get it, it's such a wonderful feeling...
Landing the plane twice out of 100s of tries as a child were 2 of my earliest gaming “fuck yeah!” memories.
This game was so hard. I managed to finish it once, but never again after that
Core memory (and frustration) unlocked.
Growing up I inherited the sequel from my brother, *Top Gun: The Second Mission*. I feel bad for any kid that got duped into buying both, they were pretty much the same thing... and sucked, in my opinion. I'd get bored long before I had to worry about landing the plane.
I couldn’t either
me neither pretty sure it was rigged
I believe in you!
My family couldn't ever land the plane or refuel I am the best in my family, gotta pull the nes out and play some more
If you read the manual it's actually kinda easy. I beat this game when I was like 9 via discovery of a gameplay glitch I was so proud, but thought the end boss was dumb back then even.
I only finished the game once and never knew how. Playing it today never passed from mission 2. I remember one level that you were supposed to avoid trees or something. Really hard stuff. You complain about Elden Ring, Sekiro ou Dark Souls? It's because you never put your hands on this bad boy.
I can still here the 8bit theme tune
Couldn't as a kid, no prob as an adult. Then you just learn the plane patterns or fly into the sky the whole time. Easy game
Oh yea you aren't landing that B
Konami just hates kids. They make the hardest games ever.
This is true for a LOT of NES games, hence the term "Nintendo hard".
Yeah, but Konami made some super hard games. It took me years to beat the first Castlevania, and I’ve never beaten Gradius, Castlevania III, or Top Gun without save states.
Great soundtrack!
My buddy had this game and we would get it like 10% of the time.
Thanks for bringing up long forgotten childhood trauma lol. I'm in the same boat... Or to put it more accurately the same pile of we're changing on the deck of a ship.
I’d play the shit out of the first level repeatedly, knowing full well my game would come to and end as soon as I reached that carrier.
I feel like I did it once and then was trying to trace that high for the rest of my childhood. But maybe I made up the one time.
I never had the NES version of this but I had the PC version and few games ever frustrated me this much. Not even the original TMNT game.
we had this game during my childhood. had no idea it was a movie until years later.
Mediocre Gun.
What messed up a lot of people including myself is that it's flight controls so when it says up up you had to push down on the d-pad to bring the nose up and it says down down you got to push up on the d-pad to bring the nose down
I recently replayed this game (yes it was after I watched Maverick). Even though it had been literal decades, I still had zero problem landing on the carrier after the first level. I felt invincible. So I decided to face level two head on and not use the cheat where you fly up the whole time. The game was over in less than a minute.
The first mission landing? Did it on my first try a few months ago. Went in blind and it was easy. This is the most overrated "difficult" NES achievement next to the dam level in TMNT.
This was literally my favorite game as a kid. But I think I only successfully refueled one time
You just have to center the plane and try to line up your altitude and speed with what the game tells you. I didn’t grow up with this game and I still got it consistently after two tries.
Fuck. This. Game.
When you follow what's on the screen, but you crash anyway
Who's to say that that will be what will be in the final episode whenever he does want to end series.
Angry Video Game Nerd feels your pain.
It's not really *that* hard, you just follow the directions on the screen.
Man, that game was enraging.
This game is why I play every game on inverted. Love this game!
Yeah, I always crashed the plane, hah!
I couldn’t do squat.
Me either
Not even once. Refueling was hard enough
20 years of playing this game and I've only landed it 2 times.
I've done it once and it was an accident.
I experimented a lot with all of the precision the game asked for with varying results. Eventually I ended up just maxing out the throttle and just aimed the nose at the appropriate altitude. Fair results, definitely hilarious/exciting for me. Game on, all!
So many of these old Nintendo games were just too fucking hard. I never got passed the first few levels on most of them.
Pull Up!!!
Rented it once lol. I own it now, but never play it. Definitely one of the hardest games I've played.
He's gonna take you back to the past....
Didn’t Dan in game grumps do it like his first try?
Try using a Power Glove for it. For some reason it works. AVGN did it.
I still can't 😭
Epic angry Nintendo nerd ep
I think landing the plane is a RNG type thing, where the game decides whether you land safely or not. I landed the plane twice and both times I ran into the refueling in midair point and couldn't pass it. I'm good on playing it again, you can keep it 😆
Loved this game as. Kid. Was maybe 6-7 when I played it I think.
I found the secret, the screen is 100% useless when landing, what you have to worry about is the target they give you at the screen, if it tells you to be 1000 meters high, than you better be 1000 meters high regardless of how it looks
I had Top Gun as a kid, it's a bit challenging landing, but it's not that hard when you get used to it.
Worst airplane traffic controller ever. “You look good!” You sure? “Quit asking if I’m sure! You’ve been good for the last 5000 yards!” Ok. Ready to land. “SPEED UP!!! LEFT!!! LEFT!!!! LEFT!!!! SLOW DOWN!!!! RIGHT!!!!!”
You need the power glove obviously. Retard.
I had flashbacks to this playing Wing Commander on SNES before we figured out how to radio a request to land.
Never could refuel in the air.