Top Guns: The six greatest flight shooters

It's the 30th anniversary of Top Gun, and here are the finest air combat games inspired by the classic movie

It was the quintessential 1980s action movie, boasting turbo-charged machismo, ridiculous military hardware and the most homoerotically charged beach volleyball scene in memory.

Unsurprisingly, with its tense and beautifully short aerial combat scenes, Top Gun - which is 30 years old today - also inspired a whole era of flight-shooter video games. Unfortunately, most of the licensed Top Gun games were awful. So here are our favourite flight blasters that were clearly influenced by that unforgettable motion picture event.