After Burner

1987 · Game · shoot 'em up, rail shooter · Sega X Board, Sega Master System, arcade video game, Sega 32X

Sega AM2, Rutubo Games

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After Burner is a 1987 combat flight simulation video game developed by Studio 128 and published by Sega for arcades. The player controls an American F-14 Tomcat fighter jet and must clear each of the game's 18 stages by destroying enemies. The plane is equipped with a machine gun and a limited supply of heat-seeking missiles. The game uses a third-person perspective, as in Sega's earlier Space Harrier (1985) and Out Run (1986). It runs on the Sega X Board arcade system which is capable of surface and sprite rotation. It is the fourth Sega game to use a hydraulic "taikan" motion simulator arcade cabinet, one that is more elaborate than their earlier "taikan" simulator games. The cabinet simulates an aircraft cockpit, with flight stick controls, a chair with seatbelt, and hydraulic motion technology that moves, tilts, rolls and rotates the cockpit in sync with the on-screen action.

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Type: Game
Release date: July 17, 1987
Genres: shoot 'em up, rail shooter
Platforms: Sega X Board, Sega Master System, arcade video game, Sega 32X
Created by: Sega AM2, Rutubo Games
Countries: Japan