After Burner

After Burner
Logo of the Western Sega Master System version of the game.
Developer(s)	Sega AM2
Publisher(s)	Sega
Designer(s)	Yu Suzuki
Composer(s)	Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Series	After Burner
Platform(s)	Arcade, Master System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, NES, MSX
Release	JP: July 13, 1987 EU: September 6, 1987 NA: October 27, 1987
Genre(s)	Vehicular combat
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	Sega X Board

After Burner is a arcade vehicular combat video game, developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega. The playere assumes controlled by American fighter jet F-14 Tomcat, and player must cleared each stages of the game's eighteen unique stages by destroying all enemies around the player, using both a machine gun and a limited supply of heat-seeking missiles. It uses a third-person perspective, using previously of Sega's earlier games Space Harrier (1985) and Out Run (1986), and also using the game engine Sega X Board arcade system and usingh a sprite rotation. It is the fourth Sega game tu used a hydraulic "taikan" motion simulator arcade cabinet.

Sequel

A sequel called After Burner II that released in 1987, After Burner III released in 1993.