After Burner

Afterburner is an arcade shoot ' em up series, which was developed by AM2. Sega published in 1987 both Afterburner and Afterburner II, which differ only to a small degree.

Game Description

The player controls a fighter jet, whose representation in the game resembles an F -14 Tomcat. The game consists of 18, and 23 levels in the second part. The player perceives the aircraft from a persecutor perspective and tries to fight different opponents. As presented in the Games Space Harrier and Hang-On Sega different versions of the arcade machines here. In addition to a standard housing, the company manufactured a hydraulic sit-down - version. This is an aircraft cockpit gradually moving according to the game. The most noticeable change in the second part is a built- in automatic thrust lever with which the speed can be controlled.

Successors and Ports

Sega released in 1992 After Burner III on the Mega CD. The game is a port of published only in Japan Strike Fighter, an offshoot of the series. In this conversion, it is possible to select both known from the series pursuer's perspective as well as the cockpit view of the original. Published in 2006, Sega, the arcade game After Burner Climax. The hardware of the machine is based on the Sega Lindbergh system.

Afterburner has been ported to Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS- DOS, MSX, NES, Sega 32X, Sega Master System and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The second part was published for Amiga, Atari ST, MS- DOS, Sega Mega Drive, NES and PC Engine. In the series SEGA AGES 2500 he also appeared for the PlayStation 2

In addition to Strike Fighter exist with G -Loc - Air Battle (1990 ), Sky Target ( 1995) and Sega Strike Fighter ( 2000) further offshoot of the series.