After Burner

After Burner
After Burner (アフターバーナー?) is a 1987 Japanese combat flight simulator arcade game by Sega. It is one of the first games designed by Yu Suzuki. The player flew an F-14 using a specialized joystick (with moving seat, in some installations), and the game spawned several sequels.
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Sequels and related games
See also: After Burner II
After Burner was followed by After Burner II, which was released on the same year. Some consider [2] this game to be more of a revision of its predecessor, rather than an entirely new game, a practice later repeated by Sega for Galaxy Force and Galaxy Force 2. In 2000, Sega released Airline Pilot, which was a Noami arcade game, replicating a Boeing jumbo-jet flight.
Although the After Burner brand was long dormant, Sega created a number of aerial combat games centered on the F-14 Tomcat with many similar features, which are frequently regarded as part of the series.[3][4] These include G-LOC: Air Battle and its sequel Strike Fighter (later rebranded After Burner III in its home release, lending credence to the belief that they are related). Later games associated with the series include Sky Target (which retained similar gameplay and presentation to the original, but with the addition of 3D graphics) and Sega Strike Fighter (an arcade flight combat game which featured free-roaming movement, but nonetheless featured an F-14 as the default plane and boasted similar music).
In 2006, Sega released a new sequel on Sega Lindbergh hardware, After Burner Climax, the first arcade game to bear the brand since After Burner II.
The music from After Burner appears in remixed form in Chapter 8, entitled "Route 666", of Bayonetta (2009, developed by Platinum Games and published by Sega).[5]