Game entry

Top Gun

1987 · Simulation, Arcade · NES · Konami

After 65 duels settled by the community, Top Gun stands no. 4,494 among the best video games of all time on GameForever, with 1,377 ELO points and 37% of wins. In its strongest family it holds position no. 23 out of 27 (1987).

World rank

no. 4,494 =

ELO score

1,377

Wins

37%

Duels played

65

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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 1,377 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 50% 2 duels played · 147 points behind
against Cooking Simulator 0% 2 duels played · 25 points behind
against eFootball PES 2020 0% One duel played · 93 points behind
against Dirt Rally 100% One duel played · 119 points behind
against Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization 0% One duel played · 113 points behind

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The games Top Gun sits between in the world ranking.

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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: 23 out of 27 (1987).

Where Top Gun ranks
Ranking	Position	Games competing
World ranking	4,494	5,110
Simulation	130	150
1980s	128	154
1987	23	27

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