YMMV / Landing Series

• Awesome Music:
  • Midnight Landing's super-chill theme for the Attract Mode. It got rearranged for Landing Gear as "Midnight Jungling", and got another arrange for Jet de GO! 2.
  • Top Landing's Main Theme 1, the cheerful background music for the takeoff stage and first three landings. It also got an arrangement in Jet de GO! 2.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The combined soundtrack for Landing Gear and Side by Side, released in 1997, has an album jacket that shows a road sign for a fork, with the straight path marked with an airplane icon (representing Landing Gear) and the right path marked with a car icon (representing Side by Side). One of the memes to gain popularity in 2018 revolves around an image of a car drifting onto an off-ramp, with the labels for the thru-traffic and off-ramp paths replaced accordingly.
• Most Wonderful Sound: In Top Landing, hearing the announcement beep and the flight attendant is a clear sign that you've landed successfully (in contrast, neither will play when they're supposed to if you're about to get a Course Out or Over Run).
  (beep) "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for flying with JT2610. We have just landed at (name of airport). Please remain seated until the plane has come to a complete stop. Thank you!"
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Consider that you're likely transporting a few hundred passengers and crashing basically means you've just created fodder for a new episode of Air Crash Investigation. You're spared the details, so feel free to let your mind imagine the scary parts.
  • In Midnight Landing, the game feels the need to warn you you're too high, too low, or coming in too fast with loud warning sirens and the appropriate voice-over. This can give one quite a shock if they're playing the otherwise-generally-quiet game in the game's signature enclosed sit-down cabinet.
    (BEEEEP! BEEEEP!) "DECREASE ALTITUDE! EMERGENCY: DECREASE ALTITUDE!"
  • In Top Landing, if you fail a landing by overshooting the runway (either in the air or on the ground), landing on the runway then veering off of it, or flying way too far off to the left or the right, you'll simply get a "Course Out!" voice-over followed by Losing Horns. If you fail by landing someplace you're not supposed to, you hear a very loud and very jarring crashing sound instead.

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