AfterBurner Arcade Review
Afterburner was one of my favourite arcade addicting games as a kid growing up.
A lot of people attribute Afterburners success to its fantastic graphics which used similar hardware to Outrun and Super Hang On.
The graphics certainly were excellent. The scenery flies by so fast you almost believe you are Tom Cruise flying a F14 Tomcat!
In a similar way to Outrun, I think the Afterburner graphics still looked amazing even five years later.
But it wasn't just the graphics that were stunning.
The fast paced scenery contributed to super frantic gameplay which saw you dodging head-on missiles which was the enemies primary attack.
Faced with wave after wave of missile firing jets, you are a one-man army in a jetplane!
As well as dodging planes and firing your own missiles as they lock on to targets, you can also adjust your speed, from a slow braking cruise to a super-fast 'afterburners on' boost.
A lot of the time the afterburners are just for show, although you do have to use them to avoid missiles chasing you from behind!
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Your machine guns are there for shooting down planes stupid enough to fly in front of you! They will also come in handy when taking the two canyon runs so you can strafe campsites, fuel depots and communication towers!
In another nice touch, you see the bike from Super Hang On in the first canyon run and then the Ferrari car from Outrun in the second one.
Afterburner is one of the most addicting games once you get in to the fast paced action and to top it off it has some incredible rock music up there with Sega's best.
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