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I never had much trouble landing on the carrier, but refueling in the sky? I think I only managed it a few times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vetEg8J-wcw h
by debo_ 10mo ago
I never had much trouble landing on the carrier, but refueling in the sky? I think I only managed it a few times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vetEg8J-wcw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vetEg8J-wcw
- phantasmish 10mo agoMy recollection is that if you missed it you kept playing but were doomed to crash maybe 30 seconds later from low fuel. Talk about punishing.
- palmotea 10mo ago> 1398 mi/h Isn't that something like Mach 1.8? That's one fast tanker.
- ceejayoz 10mo agoThere is a F/A-18 tanker variant, at least. But you don't do the refueling at those speeds, heh.
- Boxxed 10mo agoThe refueling music is the best part of the soundtrack, and somehow that video doesn't have it...different version of the game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfUZix8jVBY&t=187s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfUZix8jVBY&t=187s
- DiabloD3 10mo agoSpeaking of the soundtrack, before Virt (Jake Kaufman) made it big (composer behind Shantae, Shovel Knight, Ducktales Remastered, a few others), he made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uEUImofSms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uEUImofSms "Bogey at your 6", the combat theme from the game, but remixed as if Konami had made it for the VRC6, the NES mapper chip that added 3 additional oscillators that made the Japanese release of Castlevania III what it was; he made this using Scream Tracker (or possibly a newer tracker, but its saved in S3M format), because tracker-like chip emulators didn't exist yet (Furnace, et al).
- debo_ 10mo agoMy favorite original virt track is Incident Zero: https://youtu.be/Py1BmKVdHfg https://youtu.be/Py1BmKVdHfg
- ahartmetz 10mo agoMine, both from Shovel Knight: In the Halls of the Usurper (Pridemoor Keep) https://youtu.be/B9ICOx8YWWw https://youtu.be/B9ICOx8YWWw Fighting with All of Our Might https://youtu.be/Sv9IhzPPkxg https://youtu.be/Sv9IhzPPkxg
- JoblessWonder 10mo agoI never got that far in the game... but that song gave me a visceral body memory of "difficult things in games that trigger intense 8 bit music" memories.
- jordigh 10mo agoThe Japanese release of the game flips around the "soundless" sections with the music section, suggesting that listening to that rocking track for most of your flight is the intended experience. https://tcrf.net/Top_Gun_(NES)#Music https://tcrf.net/Top_Gun_(NES)#Music
- nubinetwork 10mo ago
- jabl 10mo agoHow convenient that refueling also replenishes your missiles.
- boo-ga-ga 10mo agoHah, same for me:). But still loved to do these things over and over again.
- virgil_disgr4ce 10mo agoThis was the part that my brother and I could never, ever, not even once, complete. I still rue it to this day.
- stouset 10mo agoHow in the hell is that tanker flying at ~1,200 knots (1,400mph)!? That is nearly Mach 2!
- wat10000 10mo agoSame 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.
- iberator 10mo agoMaybe it was indicted speed and not ground speed LOL
- chasd00 10mo agough i had forgotten all about this game until I clicked your link and then promptly closed the tab. Carrier landing was frustrating enough but the re-fueling was another level. I played this at my friend's house whenever I would go there and spend the night. That was an actual thing back in the day, you'd get your parents to let you stay the night at a friend's house and then you'd stay up all night playing NES, eating pizza and watching movies.
- Wowfunhappy 10mo agoUh, this is still a thing? Kids have sleepovers. And there often isn't much sleeping involved. (Okay, maybe they aren't playing the NES explicitly, but same thing.)
- chasd00 10mo agoMy boys are 16 and 13 and went through middle school without a single sleepover.
- Wowfunhappy 10mo agoHuh. Well, I teach fifth grade and my students tell me about their sleepovers all the time. My school is all-girls though, maybe the gender matters.