After burner
| After burner | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Studio | ON 2 |
| Publisher | Sega |
| Senior Developer | Suzuki Yū |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1987 |
| genre | Shoot 'em up |
| Game mode | Single player |
| control | Joystick , two buttons, thrust lever |
| casing | Standard and sit-down |
| Arcade system |
Sega X Board : Main CPU : 2 × Motorola 68000 (@ 12.5 MHz) Sound CPU: Z80 (@ 4 MHz) Sound chips: YM2151 (@ 4 MHz), Sega PCM |
| monitor | Raster resolution 320 × 224 (horizontal), color palette: 24,576 |
Afterburner is a Arcade - Shoot-'em-up -Spielreihe that of AM2 was developed. Sega released both After Burner and After Burner II in 1987 , which differ only slightly.
Game description
The player controls a fighter jet, the representation of which in the game resembles an F-14 Tomcat . The game consists of 18 or 23 levels in the second part. The player perceives the aircraft from a pursuer's perspective and tries to fight different opponents. As with the Space Harrier and Hang-On games , Sega made different versions of the arcade machine . In addition to a standard housing, the company also manufactured a hydraulic sit-down version. This simulates an airplane cockpit and moves according to the course of the game. The most noticeable change in the second part is a thrust lever built into the machine that can be used to regulate the speed.
Successors and ports
Sega released After Burner III on the mega CD in 1992 . The game is a port of the Japanese-only Strike Fighter , an offshoot of the series. In this conversion it is possible to choose both the follower perspective known from the series and the cockpit perspective of the original. In 2006 Sega released the arcade game After Burner Climax . The machine's hardware is based on the Sega-Lindbergh system.
After Burner has been ported to Amiga , Amstrad CPC , Atari ST , Commodore 64 , MS-DOS , MSX , NES , the stand-alone handheld device from Tiger Electronics , 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 . It was also released for the PlayStation 2 in the SEGA AGES 2500 series . For the Nintendo 3DS it was released as 3D After Burner II .
In addition to Strike Fighter, there are further offshoots of the series with G-Loc - Air Battle (1990), Sky Target (1995) and Sega Strike Fighter (2000).
Web links
- The after-burner series at MobyGames (English)
- Afterburner in the Killer List of Video Games (English)
- After Burner II at Arcade-History.com (English)
- After Burner game play video
- Play After Burner II in the Flash Browser Emulator
