Days of Thunder/Top Gun movie and game hybrid Blu-rays coming

by Richard Mitchell on Jun 4th 2011 12:00AM

You love Tom Cruise. We get it, he's dreamy. You want to own everything even tangentially related to him, but there's a conundrum now that Days of Thunder and Top Gun are now both movies and games. Frankly, that's confusing. What's a Cruise fan to do?

The answer is simple, as 505 Games will soon be releasing Top Gun and Days of Thunder hybrid Blu-ray discs. Each disc will include a copy of the movie and its respective game. Plus, it adds a physical case to the download-only games, so you can finally display them in your shrine! According to Amazon, the wonder-discs will be released on June 7 at $30 each.

[Thanks, Josh]

Source: Top Gun Hybrid - Game and Movie (Amazon), Days of Thunder - Game and Movie (Amazon)

Tags: 505-games, days-of-thunder, Days-of-Thunder-NASCAR-Edition, playstation, ps3, top-gun

Reader Comments (51)

Double the mediocrity for half the price!

Does it get any...more middle-of-the-road?

@Red Runner

Can't speak for the games, but those movies are classics. I grew up on Days of Thunder.

@Red Runner Call Kenny Loggins, you're on the highway to... THE DANGER ZONE!

@Red Runner

Top Gun is an 80s classic. Shame on you.

@Red Runner

waaaa? Top Gun is AWESOME. makes me want to enlist in the Air Force every time i watch it. fighter jets are so bad-ass.

Watch and play all in one dics.

This is pretty interesting, looking forward to other game move splits. Batman and iron man would be cool.

@(Unverified) Why do you think it's trolling?

@mmmfishtacos

Iron Man 1 and 2 the game are horrible.
They'd ruin the Blu ray the movie is on.

@Jawmuncher I knew the first game wasn't he best, but i thought people said the second was okay.

@mmmfishtacos
They should have done this with tron legacy, Then I'd have actually bought it.

@PN04 I'm with you there. I'd be willing to buy a movie tie in game if it comes with the movie, but never the average asking price of 60. It would have to be 30 to 40 dollars, and 40 pushing it.

@PN04

So you'd be okay paying extra to get a terrible game packaged with an excellent movie?

@ItsameMatt03 Not a terrible game, but if it's an okay game I'd be willing to shell out a bit of extra money.

Well take me to bed or lose me forever!

@mmmfishtacos

Uh, they're regarded as mediocre star vehicles for Cruise (the movies) and the games were bland arcade sim games.

@Red Runner Odd reply fail (joystiq fault). I know that, I just think the concept is interesting. Besides I've seen top gun enough times to last a life time. Cant say i'd buy that move again for any reason.

I wish they'd do this with movies that had good accompanying games... Oh wait...

@SuperWoody64

.....N64 cartridges did not have enough room for the Goldeneye movie

There I finished it for you

@SuperWoody64

Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil. Of course if you said "games that had good accompanying movies" well... then I got nothing.

@Timjoy
I was going to say the EXACT same thing for Bebe's Kids.

@RickGhastly
Bebe's Kids was actually the only movie based game that's worth a damn!
Now let's get an aerosmith cd with revolutionX for xbla on it!

This is a good idea if your going to give me a crappy tie in game at least give me the movie to go a long with it

@Timjoy

You know, I wish the idea had been feasible in the NES days. I mean, if you were going to make me play that awful Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde game, at least include a complete text of the game on the cart!

if there was a scott pilgrim bluray/game with the game artwork on the cover i would buy in an instant

@tasteofink313
The scott pilgrim game is worth playing with or without the movie.

@PN04 oh i know, i already own both. i would buy it again lol

505 = PASS

Top Gun?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16mlAeiFfkY

Don't like em', don't buy em'

A PS3 port of a classic NES game...
Oh, wait...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofM11nPzFo0

I wonder if this will affect the movie transfers. Downgraded audio, perhaps. I mean, it's not like the games take up a lot of space due to their nature but it's still space and knowing how "clever" movie studios are at mucking up a simple transfer for most blu-rays, i wouldn't put it past them to doing something weird here, either.

@Mmmmz

those games were PSN downloads, there's no reason to remove any features. Anyway, most games (even AAA titles) barely fill a DVD, a single layer Bluray disc is 25 GB, there's more than enough room for these kind of bundles.

@rubadub72
Yes, but again, uncompressed audio is massive and depending on the source audio and what the original blu-rays had (DTS, etc), it might take up a good portion of the disc.

Then it's how will they implement it? Will the disc need to be a special format, formatting can take up/lose space, or will it just be in a folder and boom.

I remember these; the manager at my local Gamestop was pimping these at me HARD, even after I said I didn't play either of the game genres or cared about the movies, he just went on until I forgot why I came to the store and left. The day i got fired by that company remains a good one in my eyes.

If you're that big a fan of Tom Cruise you're probably used to confusion. Top Gun - the ultimate bromance movie.

@birdizzle87 Top Gun is just one *zzziiiiiiip* away from being "Brokeback Mountain" in the military.

Take me on your mighty wings!
Take me on your mighty wings TONIIIIIIIGHT!!!

@Mr Esc is the namesarcasm is my

I hope that they fixed the landing on the aircraft carrier mechanics for this game.

While we're getting duo packs on Tom Cruise movies, any chance we'll see Eyes Wide Shut packed in with a platformer? (No battery back-up for that one. Forget the password and you're SCREWED).

@RickGhastly

Fidelio.

@Dr Toboggan
Correct! Now, please input password for the HOUSE!

(oh crap)

http://i.imgur.com/IbVbF.gif

Days of Thunder was such a disappointment for even what I expected to be a bad game. It was awful, but you could see traces of greatness there. It didn't have to be terrible, they let it be.

Sad.

Only if it has a volleyball minigame.

Hmm, frankly $30 are more than the movies are worth, and with the so-so games, I'm not really inclinded to pay more. Seems like a marketing gimmick to push the games.

Are these the NES games? I could never refill from the damn tanker, maybe its time for a rematch.

YES! I KNEW this would happen eventually! Now lets just hope this happens with better games/movies. Not that the movies suck.

@Mmmmz They should've just gave the blu-ray version of the movie and included a download code for the game in the packaging somewhere, seeing as both games are downloadable games anyway. Then they wouldn't have to mess with changing anything about the movie.

of course that both film and game industries want us to buy each separately at full price, but maybe these bundles should add value to older movies like these ones, and even if the games are mediocre at least you can keep the films if you like them.

Transformers, Toy Story 3 and Tron would be nice candidates for future bundles.

I'll stick with just getting the movies on BD thank you very much

Both those games are just horrendous and the fact both classic movies have their name attached to them just makes me cringe. The marketers should be ashamed of themselves.

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