The game is designed by Ryan Miller (Epic PVP: Fantasy, WarCry, UFS: Street Fighter), and play is as simple as Love Letter. Players take the role of pilots in flight school, and do their best to maneuver and/or insult their way to be the winner of the Top Gun Trophy. Each card has a point value, and each turn a player plays a card with a “maneuver,” and each subsequent player in the circle must try to beat that card with another “maneuver” card of higher value. If none of the other players beats the card on the table, the original player scores points, though they’re required to recite a quote from the movie to score.

Although the game uses the nicknames from the film (e.g., Maverick), no actors' likenesses are included; all art is created for the game.   

Reaction from mass market buyers has been strong, according to a Jasco spokesperson, and the game is expected to be widely distributed.  Jasco is producing more copies of Top Gun than of any other games in its history.  

This box contains a 100 card Top Gun deck, 5 Pilot cards, 1 Top Gun Trophy card, 6 cards of Top Gun trivia and a rulebook. MSRP will be around $20.00. Released is planned for summer.

Jasco is "“printing in the U.S. because it’s Top Gun and needs to be made in the U.S.,” the spokesperson told us.