Mastiff to Publish Top Gun DS

June 30, 2005, 1:18 pm EDT
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You don't Nintendogs for multiplayer dog fights on the Nintendo DS!

Mastiff Announces Paramount Pictures Top Gun For Nintendo DS™

2-4 Player Wireless Dogfighting in the Palm of Your Hand

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 30, 2005) Video Game publisher Mastiff today announced they will publish Paramount Pictures Top Gun for Nintendo's highly successful new handheld video game system, the Nintendo DS™. An action-packed tribute to the blockbuster movie hit of 1986, Top Gun takes advantage of the unique Nintendo DS interface for high octane mastery of the sky.

"Top Gun's intense action translates perfectly into a videogame," said Bill Swartz, Head Woof at Mastiff. "Top Gun exploits the capabilities of the Nintendo DS to duplicate that experience in a handheld environment."

A hip, heart-pounding combination of action, music and incredible aerial photography helped make Top Gun the blockbuster movie hit of 1986. Top Gun for Nintendo DS takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Top Gun players enter as rookie pilots, selected along with a handful of other pilots for elite training at the US Navy's Fighter Weapons School. To become the best fighter pilot in the world players must to go head to head with the best of enemy fighter pilots.

Top Gun puts the player in the cockpit of a heavily armed jetfighter plane. The game includes 10 single player missions such as high altitude dogfights, escort missions, and protecting airspace, over a variety of terrain with dramatic weather and visual effects. Top Gun also features head to head play for two, three or four players. High quality sound effects take advantage of the Nintendo DS's ability to deliver virtual surround-sound.

Additional features of Top Gun game include:

Top Gun Competition Campaign includes elite training and realistic combat

Choose pilots named for characters in the movie

Choose different fighter planes, each with different handling characteristics

10 diverse missions across arctic, ocean, forest and desert zones

Weapons include machine gun, fire-and-forget missiles, homing missiles

Multiplayer dogfight for 2-4 players

Stunning visual effects include explosions, water splashes, smoke, and gun/rocket trails

Challenging weather effects include sun, rain, animated clouds, and snow

Pulse-pounding music reminiscent of the movie soundtrack

Talkback

Karl Castaneda #2June 30, 2005

Prepare to Fly Into The Danger Zone!

TMWJune 30, 2005

Oh my gawd! Am I the only one who's getting tired of escort missions?

Infernal MonkeyJune 30, 2005

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Stunning visual effects include explosions, water splashes, smoke, and gun/rocket trails

WHOA, take that. Atari 2600.

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10 diverse missions across arctic, ocean, forest and desert zones

If only Midway were developing this, then we'd have a moon zone.

IceColdJune 30, 2005

Does anyone remember the NES TopGun? Or was it SNES? Anyway, I remember playing it as a kid and I think that it was good.

31 FlavasJune 30, 2005

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Originally posted by: IceCold
Does anyone remember the NES TopGun? Or was it SNES? Anyway, I remember playing it as a kid and I think that it was good.

And trying to land aircraft carrier after missions w/O overshooting or falling short, that was the sh!t back then. I havn't tried any of the topgun games since then though... have they been any good? I know their is one for Gamecube and GBA.

darknight06July 01, 2005

I remember those games, I used to have the first one. The farthest I could get is the 3rd mission, and that only if I managed to land correctly, which only happened about 20% of the time. Yet my dad would kill that game flawless everytime. I remember with the second, Konami made it a lot easier to land on the carrier.

IceColdJuly 01, 2005

"I know their is one for Gamecube and GBA.

There are? Huh, never heard of them...weird

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