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Game entry

Top Gun

1987 · Simulation, Arcade · NES · Konami

After 45 duels settled by the community, Top Gun stands no. 3,136 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,448 ELO points and 40% of wins. In its strongest family it holds position no. 18 out of 27 (1987).

World rank

no. 3,136

ELO score

1,448

Wins

40%

Duels played

45

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About Top Gun

Top Gun was released in 1987 for the PC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) (with an equivalent version for Nintendo Vs. Series arcade cabinets). The Commodore and Spectrum versions were developed by Ocean while Thunder Mountain handled the PC version of the game. Konami developed the Nintendo version. The NES version was released on November 1987 in North America, December 11, 1987 in Japan and on November 30, 1988 in Europe and Australia. According to Game Over by David Sheff, the NES version sold over 2 million copies.

Many of the people who've played the NES version have complained about the difficulty, and lack of action in the game.

The NES version had a sequel called Top Gun: The Second Mission.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,448 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games Top Gun sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 3,133 Pokémon Masters 1,448
  2. 3,134 Off The Grid 1,448
  3. 3,135 Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream 1,448
  4. 3,136 Top Gun 1,448
  5. 3,137 11-11: Memories Retold 1,448
  6. 3,138 Aniimo 1,448
  7. 3,139 Need for Speed 1,447

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The standing

Where Top Gun ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Top Gun stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 18 out of 27 (1987).

Where Top Gun ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 3,136 5,035
Simulation 87 142
1980s 88 155
1987 18 27

The community

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