Oh god the trauma this brought back.
Thank you! I was looking for this comment amongst the "this was easy" ones. I was pretty young when this game came out. I rarely got past this landing.
I think I still have the Top Gun NES cartridge in a box somewhere. Maybe this is a good excuse to fire up the NES and try it.
There was also that water level in TMNT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFNWJXWgI
Seriously, I'm glad everyone else is young enough not to have been scarred by games that either were designed to eat quarters or designed to keep you at it for a couple of months so you got your money's worth.
Why not show the last race from Decathlon by Activision to see if my forearm muscles cramp up instinctively.