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After Burner

After Burner - You've played the arcade smash - now experience the white-knuckled realism of a supersonic dogfight at home! Using your heat-seeking missiles and laser anti-aircraft fire, can you be top gun…

1 February 1987

After Burner is a shooter developed by Argonaut Software Ltd., released 1 February 1987 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What After Burner is

After Burner is a shooter game developed by Argonaut Software Ltd. and released in 1987. It was published by Activision. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After Burner - You've played the arcade smash - now experience the white-knuckled realism of a supersonic dogfight at home! Using your heat-seeking missiles and laser anti-aircraft fire, can you be top gun against a seething supersonic swarm? Experience brain-numbing G-forces; bones rattling with the body-jarring pitch and yaw... scan with your radar, lock on your target and FIRE!
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. 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 February 1987 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

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