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After Burner

After Burner II is an arcade-style flight game released by Sega in 1987. It is the second game in the After Burner series. In the game, players fly a F-14 Tomcat jet fighter, gunning down enemies while…

1 September 1989

After Burner is a shooter developed by Sega AM2, released 1 September 1989 on DOS.

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What After Burner is

After Burner is a shooter game developed by Sega AM2 and released in 1989. It was published by Sega Enterprises, Ltd.. It is available on DOS only.

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After Burner II is an arcade-style flight game released by Sega in 1987. It is the second game in the After Burner series. In the game, players fly a F-14 Tomcat jet fighter, gunning down enemies while avoiding incoming fire. Like OutRun, another Sega arcade game, After Burner II came in several versions, the most famous being a large, servo actuated, sit-down cabinet which resembled a cockpit and moved according to the motion of the plane onscreen. The cockpit would bank in the same direction the on-screen aircraft was banking. There was also a more basic upright cabinet version. After Burner II has been translated and ported to numerous home computers, consoles and mobile phones…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

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When did After Burner come out?
After Burner was released on 1 September 1989 for DOS.

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