I had never seen the movie Top Gun until just a few hours ago. I had played the NES game a few times at a friend's house when I was a kid, but the first Top Gun game I really got into was the PC game from last year. I got it for $2.50 during the Steam holiday sale and beat it on Christmas day.

The story didn't really make much sense to me in the game. Having seen the movie, it's apparent that they were trying to adapt the movie story entirely into dialog while showing planes flying. It also completely ignored certain characters and parts of the plot like Charlie and everything she did. However, now that I've seen the movie, it was rather light on story to begin with.

The game traded the romance plot for more missions and action. I found myself asking "um, more planes?" all the time while watching the movie. Charlie had a mature sexiness that I appreciated, but the whole storyline took me off guard. I went in expecting a balls to the wall action movie with lots of 80s guitar rock, and I got a chick flick and You've Lost That Loving Feeling.

One thing that surprised me was how short the credits at the end of the movie were. It was much shorter than what you usually see today. I wouldn't be surprised if the PC game had a longer credits list.

Overall, it was a good movie, but I don't see why it became such a phenomenon, much less had a couple of (in)famous NES games made based on it.