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Top Gun 
by Aden Stiles

This game is Topgun: Fire at will!

The company: that produced this game is Spectrum Holobyte, 2490 Mariner Square Loop, Alameda, CA 94501, phone 510-522-9357. Although they say the intended audience is 6 to adults, I think it should be ten year olds and up.

 Minimum system requirements are IBM pc 66mhz compatible pentium recommend 8mb ram and 30mb hard drive space or 16mb ram and 15mb hard drive space Vesa local bus or pci video card capable of super vga graphics (640x480x256 colors) Dos 5.0 or later (also runs under windows 95) Double-speed cd-rom drive (300 kb/sec sustained transfer rate) Joystick Mouse Sound blaster (or 100% compatible), proaudio spectrum or ensoniq soundscape.

 The system configuration I used was a 486 dx4 100 16megs of ram 6 speed cd. It is important to note this computer game allows you to adjust detail so the game can be played on a variety of computer systems which vary in speed. This game installs easily with one click.

 There are no instructions in the manual that tell how you can save the game although when you get in to the game it gives you the option of loading a previous game. I have not called for technical and customer support yet. The suggested price: $46.98 and it is available at local stores.

Top GunI like this game a lot, the music is great, the voices are good and give you a lot of information that helps you play the game. The graphics would be better if I had a pentium like it suggests. I think it is much easier to play with a joystick than a mouse or the keyboard. If you do use the joystick, adjust the graphics on high, medium, low, and, off, so the computer is not working as hard on the graphics and can make it easier to fly and control movement with the joystick.

 This game is fun to play. It gives you lots of levels to chose for your missions. I liked getting to take off, and land on aircraft carriers and at air fields. The best part is getting to blow up lots of planes with guns and different types of missiles. You will be shot at more and more as you chose levels go from easiest to hardest.