Are you a 'Maverick' or an 'Iceman' Are you cool, calm and collected or do you fly by the seat of your pants? The answers to these aeronautical questions and many more can be found in Top Gun Firestorm Advance for GBA. Developed by Fluid, Top Gun is a multi-scrolling isometric flyer delivering a large number of missions and types of aircraft while maintaining the straightforward and addictive gameplay that GBA gamers know and love. Top Gun is choc full of seat-ejecting action. Mistakes in this adrenalin-fuelled environment will leave players more dead than Goose.

The story is very loosely based on the movie of the same name. The player guides the well known pilot Maverick through a series of realistic training missions to receive graduation from the Top Gun school. The story is advanced in several stills throughout the game.