After Burner
After Burner
After Burner
After Burner
After Burner
After Burner

After Burner

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Item Description

In arcades, After Burner was an event. Yu Suzuki's 1987 jet combat game came in a cockpit cabinet that moved with your plane, throwing sprite-scaled jets and terrain at the player at a speed few machines anywhere could match. Squeezing that onto an 8-bit home console was an audacious idea, and Sega went ahead and did it.

The Master System version keeps the core of what made After Burner thrilling. You fly an F-14 Tomcat through wave after wave of enemy fighters, hosing down the close calls with your cannon and locking missiles onto everything else, banking hard to shake off the missiles closing in behind you. The pace is fast, the screen is busy, and the sense of hurtling forward at full throttle comes through surprisingly well on hardware with a fraction of the arcade board's muscle.

It is a pared-back port, and there is no point pretending otherwise: the scaling is simpler, the graphics and sound were reworked to suit the console, and of course the arcade's moving cabinet stays behind. What survives is pure reflex shooting, the kind of game you play in short, intense bursts and keep returning to because the next stage always feels winnable.

That makes After Burner a fascinating piece of Sega history. It shows how hard the company pushed to put its biggest arcade hits on its home console years before 16-bit hardware made the job easier, and it sits naturally beside Out Run and Space Harrier on a Master System shelf, a trio of Yu Suzuki blockbusters brought down to 8 bits with a lot of nerve.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1987
Publisher
Tec Toy
Developer
Sega AM2
Players
Single player
About the game

A watered down port of the arcade game, with many alterations to graphics and sound in order to accommodate the low end hardware.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
Watch gameplayAfter Burner on Master System
Video: After Burner

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