>>12541752
it's an ok combat flight sim for normies who didn't have a computer

This was the second Konami game where they bought Nintendo's cartridges instead of making their own (the first one was Majou Densetsu II). The most likely explanation was that the demand for Top Gun was so huge that their relatively modest cartridge production line couldn't handle it. The Famicom release is mostly similar to the NES one but you're not fighting in the Middle East, just a generic map that doesn't look like any place in particular.

>>12541752
This must be the biggest selling NES game that is almost never discussed on /vr/.

>>12541752
>One has to wonder if those sales weren't because of boomers buying the thing for their kids. I mean, Top Gun just screams 40 year old uncle -core much like Jack Nicklaus Golf.

You see that's just the problem. You underestimate the importance of the teen and adult audiances back then. They were the ones running the show, not "kids".
The average kid would get like 2 games a year. The average teen/adult would buy and rent dozens of games per year.

This isn't one of those "uncultured boomer uncle buys this for his nephew because it appeals to him and he doesn't know better" games, it's one of those "uncle buys this for himself and enjoys it" games.

>>12541752
this was like the 80s Call of Duty ie. game every normie jock/bro had to have and it hit all the buttons at the time as far as American audiences were concerned. it sold well in Japan too, not quite as massive as the US but still pretty big.

Kids also liked Top Gun... popular movie, duh

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>10 year old me getting f-15 strike eagle because fighter jets are cool
not just an unc thing

>>12541752
I've never been moved by flight sims for some reason.

>>12541818
it's not discussed in general because the online retro game community only cares about cartoony platformers for 9 year olds and weeb jarpigs