After Burner II Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]
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Developed and published by Sega in 1987
* Updated 21/12/2019 **
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Clearly influenced by the huge success of (the sadly deceased) Tony Scott's film, Top Gun, Sega developed and released this iconic arcade-shooter in 1987. Despite what the name suggests, After Burner II is really a revised version of the original game, introducing a throttle control, additional levels and gameplay tweaks.
Strapping the player into the cockpit of the iconic fighter jet, the F-14 Tomcat, the game is a retina-melting, synapse-frying experience where the objective is to shoot down as many enemy targets as possible, whilst not getting shot down in return.
Your plane is equipped with twin, rapid-firing vulcan cannons and an extensive supply of heat-seeking missiles. Whilst the gun is capable of shooting down targets, the sheer speed of the game makes reliance on the gun difficult if you're looking to rack up a high score, whereas missiles can be much more effective, providing you manage to establish a target lock. Moving the plane's targeting reticle over an enemy plane will initiate a target lock; any missile fired once locked will home in an take out the target.
Enemy jets appear in the distance and will launch their own barrage of missiles at your plane. It takes quick reactions to avoid the oncoming fire, but is also doubly tricky if you want to try and shoot down the oncoming plane as well; all to often, the game becomes more a case of simply avoiding enemy missiles than shooting anything down. The threat can also come from behind as jets attempt to shoot you down with guns and missile locks; the only way to survive is to fly fast and fly well!
Every so often, a supply plane will appear and will initiate a mid-air fuel and ammo transfer to resupply you with missiles, which looks extremely cool and also gives you a chance to catch your breath and to regain some feeling in your trigger finger.
Other stages remove any air-born threat and, instead, require the player to fly along a narrow desert canyon whilst strafing a succession of military supply tents, hangars and radio antenna. The trick here is to avoid crashing into the cliffs at the side of the screen or flying into the radio towers.
Based on Sega's X-Board platform, the game boasts some truly remarkable sprite scaling technology that came as close as possible to delivering a 3D experience using 2D technology. Even today, the scaling effect is remarkably effective and is still great to look at.
The game also boasts some truly excellent sound and music. The rock soundtrack features some great guitar and drum samples and really was ahead of it's time for 1987. The gun fire, explosions and sampled speech effects are extremely clear and really add to the the game's atmosphere.
Of course, perhaps the most memorable feature about this game has to be the fantastic rotating cockpit cabinet and flight stick; something that can't be experienced through emulation, unfortunately.
Whilst the game is certainly a lot of fun, I think that the technical lavishness sometimes gets in the way of the fun and makes things awkward. For example, the player's missiles leave a big vapour trail that makes it incredibly difficult to see anything in front of your plane and makes it difficult to see where/when enemy missiles are approaching. The game is difficult enough without having your view obscured most of the time.
Even so, there's no denying that After Burner II is one of the greatest and most iconic arcade games ever made and is a sad reminder of the days when Sega was a dominating force in both games hardware and software design.
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(Updated 21/12/2019) Watch After Burner II in 1440p here: th-cam.com/video/Hns7XAPr8q4/w-d-xo.html
Why didn't you use the afterburner even once in either of those playthroughs? You know you can increase your speed and flames come out of your plane.
Even most worldwide women must join the Air Force including the All Women US Air Force.
Who remembers John Connor playing this in terminator 2 mall scene
I actually had no idea that this was the game he played until now
Hulk Hogan played this in Surburban Commando too
@@NightL3gacy47 I'm quick to spot easter eggs but I guess I wasn't really paying attention to notice. I didn't even even notice until I did my research on the game then rewatched the movie.
I sure remember
I was at that mall when they filmed that scene I got my picture taken with him along with that other actor with the mullet really nice kids I wonder what they look like now
31 years later, this game is still technically impressive.
I mean that literally. All the amount of stuff going on all at once in this game is just insane. Especially given this was 1987.
31 years are you frigging kidding me? 😲😒
40 40 years
@@soarvih3895 came out in 1987.
@Lóránt Farkas Actually the music was pretty great for 1987. All music in the game is fantastic.
Idk sounds pretty good 2 me@Lóránt Farkas
One of the best arcade games of the 80's right here! I remember walking into an arcade room and seeing this game! I miss those days.
This game still looks so gloriously smooth and the scaling effects are still great also as well as the music.
It's kinda little bit blury, but its great.
This was the most expensive game in the arcade back in the day. I can even remember lineups for it as it had actual simulator movements which brought the fun factor to a whole new level.
$2.50 TO START
@@kungpao-wp2sq what? It was 50p here in the uk. Or it was on the after burner I played.
You mean the deluxe cab with those hydraulics? That cabinet sure felt like the cockpit of a real F-14.
In Niagara Falls, Canada it's only $1!
@@BenJabituya It did and it still does, but now that I'm a 6'5" grownup my knees are scrunched up against the instrument panel!
Yu Suzuki was a genius, and the sprite scaling system SEGA had will always be revolutionary to me.
Yu Suzuki brought out the best games ever outrun and turbo outrun
Imagine the amount of g’s this dude pulled. This whole experience probably created one hell of a case of PTSD. Dudes gonna be in his 60s wakin up in the middle of the night pissing himself screaming “fire! Fire! Fire!” And his wife will just have to deal with it again
I always loved how this game had you pilot a F-14 loaded with enough missiles to destroy a whole city.
Yup, a complete contrast to reality, since the F-14 could only carry 4 missiles at maximum.
@@619AGT Nope, 6.
@@ShockeWulf190 It depends on how it was configured -- one loadout only had the 6 Phoenix long-range missiles, whereas another had as many as 10 missiles in total, but only 4 of those were Phoenixes (the other 6 were a mix of Sidewinders and Sparrows)!
My great uncle was a mechanic in the Navy and actually maintained airplanes on the Sega Enterprise carrier
Sick! :)
I saw him, and I was there
Long before Dave & Busters there were actual arcades. Miss those days.
There actually still is at least one, in the basement of the Skylon Tower (Niagara Falls, Canada) -- that's where I played this game just 3 weeks ago! (My long legs barely fit in the cockpit!)
@@agentorange153 I know they still exist, just not in great number. There is a chain called BARCADE
@@agentorange153 They are actually, arcades, huge in Japan too.
@@Tigerman1138 I've never been to Japan, so I can't confirm or deny!
"John, there's a cop scoping you out!"
"I think I just saw tha kid, HEYY"
I blew so much money on this game when I was a kid
I, too but i was already 20 years old.
These arcade machines were the kind where some kids didn't even want to bother touching because it would literally suck your lunch money/savings. And now after all these years I'm still afraid to go near it, let alone watch it =(
M me too! The music, movie ing cockpit got me so amped up! I felt like I was the Jr. Top gun cadet!
God I miss the 90's! When people would go the arcades on Saturdays and summer vacations!
I miss the 80s and 90s
It's the 80's.
1987
I was fairly good at this in the arcade. But this person is an ace flyer for real! Intensity wise, this game holds up extremely well today! Most intense 16 minutes of game play in history IMO. 💯💯💯💯
I'll admit I'm here because of watching top gun Maverick but I remember spending thousands of quarters trying to beat this game...lol...I miss the 80s& 90s👍🏻💯
Same here!
@ 4:10 the guy on the motorcycle just passed by was maverick!
is gta
It's a homage to Hang-On, the SEGA arcade motorcycle racing game.
@ 9:20 the car is from Outrun, another SEGA arcade racer.
Paul Barlow I knew it!
I really love all this little touch they add to the game!
Im 42 i remember playing it when i was a kid .. damn it was a good game for its time
44 and and loved it.
Outrun and Afterburner. Best video game music ever.
TheKiman2 + Golden Axe II
All SEGA games
Yu Suzuki is the best on Service Games (SEGA)
Speakin' of which, check 9:21
That first stage music always reminds me of Terminator 2 when john connor is playing this in the arcades as the T1000 is searching for him
"I'm feelin' the need! *_THE NEED... FOR SPEED!_* " - Tom Cruise (Top Gun 1986)
TBONE2004 And a sequel is being made.
best arcade shooter game of all time !
after playing this, all other plane shooter games are just boring.
***** well i didn't played shooters that much when i commented this. Now defender is my favorite, no other shooter is as frantic as and as original as that game.
Defender is an incredible game
G-Loc was pretty good
hijong park you sure? Thunder Force IV? G Loc: Air battle? Galaxy Force II? 1944? There’s so much more
@@kevinr278 I have played juno first but still perfer defender.
If anyone is looking for a good version of this, the 3D version on the 3DS is outstanding/
They also have Outrun, Space Harrier and others too which are VERY good ports, Outrun has been updated to run at 60FPS (The original ran at 30FPs in arcades)
This is what got me so interested in F-14s and I'm even writing a book where the main character pilots one. Top Gun helped that even further.
Same here, well not the book, but my love for the F-14 Tomcat, I even started building model of it
I *had* a model, although it was very badly put together (I was new to building models). It held together quite well. Pretty sure that my grandmother put it up/threw it out. So I've lost all of my respect for her as a person. :)
I was kidding! Jesus! I still love my grandmother. And I never said she was less important, you ass. She means everything to me.
I came on a little strong, sorry.
Ladies and gentlemen, How you end arguments. NO, NOT WITH MORE SWEARING!
9:21 Outrun :D
Such an amazing tribute. The lore thickens
Do you think 04:11 is Hang-On?
🏍 racing from SEGA.
Possibly-definitely. It is the same bike.
Gotta love how that large crew gets out of the way at the last minute.
@@Tigerman1138 Hang On bike for sure but I also think Tom Cruise as Maverick since he rides his bike by an F14 in Top Gun.
I always had a feeling that outrun and afterburner had smth going on!
This game had THE SICKEST arcade cabinet...Especially the one that you could sit in that moved. Shit blew my mind as a kid.
Imagine being the bg sprite artist for this game. You make this house and some trees you're really proud of.
You go to see how it looks in the game...... :V THE GLORIOUS FRAMERATE, I can't see my house!
I’m sure everyone loved the little cameos from the games HANG ON and OUTRUN.
While your driving little did you know this is happening above you in the skys
Really? Never noticed.
In the present I’d do it now with cameos from Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, and Knuckles
probably one of the hardest yet most fun arcade games I've ever played. i always loved doing barrel rolls!
and cross fingers, praying not being shot down while doing it^^
This was THE arcade game back in the day. Sega's magnum opus imho.
Oh, the memories....
I never felt like being someone else more than this arcade when I was a kid. I thought I was saving a world.
@9:20 love when the Tomcat was refueling/reloading,and you see the car from "OUTRUN" pull in then speed off up the runway!!! kinda of a nice homage to another one of Sega's popular games!!!
What is outrun???
As a member of the navy I can confirm this is the level of skill and firepower one of our super F-14s had to the migs in the day.
But could it carry 50+ missiles, though??? ;-)
@@agentorange153 Only if you insert quarters. Tokens are meaningless.
Man i remember when this first came out.. It was so cutting edge, we were lining up for 20 minutes just to play it.
Best part is, you can even shoot at refugeecamps! at 5:48. Yay!
Amazing how a sense of 3D was created by their sprite-scaling technology. Galaxy Force II is a very good example of that.
I always say there's something about pseudo 3D games that gives them an edgy sense of speed and urgency that 3D games can't reprocue.
@@rafaellima83 yes
Simply one of the best and iconic arcade games of all times...period!
+Sam Smith Yes and Outrun.
BTW did you notice that little ferrari in the corner of the screen driving down the runway. When you take off for the second time, you see that thing in your bottomright screen. The first time you take off, you see that bike from Hang-On.
Obviously a reference.
Yes Sony i totally agree with your comment. The red Ferrari from Outrun and the bike from Hang On (i might be wrong, but i thought that the bike was from Paperboy).
IMO this was a serious step up in the arcade era, including games like Operation Wolf, Chase HQ, Enduro Racer. We shouldn't forget SNK, remember Double Dragon, Time Soldiers.
Also remember Karate Champ, the arcade with only 2 joysticks...that was oldskooool!
I didn't mention Street Fighter because its a game that every aged gamer knows...for the newby gamers some of the other titles above might be baffling for them, but they can checkitout on youtube and google.
Peace bro
Sam Smith
It's weird but I kind of miss the old arcade days. We can play all those games for free now using MAME or some emulator but it was still was great hanging out with friends in the arcade in the 80s and early 90s.
We didn't have MTV, we had the supermarket!!! lol
You are absolutely right Sony (we are oldskool, some might just say old...lol). Back in the day, alot of time and 20p coins, was spent in amusement arcades with mates, now the youngens stay at home on their ps3/4 and xbox online...no wonder why the kids of today have minimal socialising skills compared to our generation.
LOL...we had 3 channels on the telly (BBC1, BBC2 and ITV aka Thames Television), then Channel 4 started airing (back then, it was strange to have that 4th channel, we were all so used to just 3 channels up until the early 80's). Life was just so simple back then.
OOOOOOOH no!!! I'm sounding like my uncles, back in the day lol. They prefered tapes instead of cds and now look LOL
btw...im proud to be born in the mid 70's we have seen alot of change
Sam Smith
We learned how to be happy with small things as great things were in the pipeline/future.
Kids these days take everything for granted.
*Brief but very intense OG arcade game. The console version is thrilling too.*
I got interested in watching the Top Gun movies because of this SEGA game.
This arcade game was released in 1987 and Sega took it's inspiration from Top Gun (1986)
I don't think I ever saw the magnificent afterburner barrel roll you could do to evade missiles lol. Was always one of my favorite things to do in this game.
That's the theory. In practice, doing the barrel roll is a suicide in this game, at least in the later stages.
I never made the connection that it was for evading missiles
@@sadderthanyou7793 The barrel roll is great for evading missiles, but it also prevents you from hitting anything yourself!
@@agentorange153 In the early stages. Evading missile with the barrel roll in the later stages will kill you.
@@sadderthanyou7793 Well, I never did get past stage 9, even on my best run!
These game is a really an ancient grandfather of Ace Combat and another modern arcade flight combat games, sad it stoped in After Burner Climax on 2005 (if i remembered)
That Su-57 never stood a chance lol
Not one death. Damn!
This is still one of the most impressive looking and sounding games I have ever seen in my life. Drop dead gorgeous artwork, music and overall speed.
Just, fuckin, jaw dropping.
"Excuse me?....Have you seen this kid?"
*Holds up picture of the kid he is looking for.*
This is a very good player! I should know, played this game to death back in 1987 at my local arcade, always using 1 credit to finish it.
mitrooper ya and you never made it till the end ! Always spend 20bucks hahahha
The arcade will lose money!
Absolutely one of the best. I had this on Sega. 1st game I ever beat. Watching this and remembering the first time I got in the zone and hit the levels I never could and just freaking out on how cool and crazy each level gets. Thanks for the blast to the past.
Set playback speed to 0.5 or 0.75 to really appreciate those graphics. How were they able to draw 200 tree sprites in a second back in those days? It's like Crysis of 1987
Only sega retro arcade game I actually played that was from a machine. As a 2000s kid playing these arcades from the 80s were awesome
The game was developed in 1986. The first arcade perfect conversion (at 60 fps, the Saturn conversion was at 30 fps) came out on the Dream cast. some 15 years later.
Goes to show that the Sega superscalar games has some serious hardware. The game was actually 2D and simulated SD with sprite scaling But the effect was totally convincing.
That music coming from the aircraft carrier brings back the good days
Man, the graphics on this game still hold up. If you saw this on an N64 11-12 years later you wouldn’t have been disappointed
Thanks for uploading. You are a good pilot. I never went beyond stage 5.
Last time I played this (just 3 weeks ago in Niagara Falls) I got to stage 8, but only thanks to buying a couple extra lives!
Give it up, Dragos! GIVE IT UP!!!
IT'S AFTERBURNER!!!
That take off from the air strip @04:10. Don't know what's better, the guy on bike pulling a Tom Cruise, or hitting Mach 3 before you're 100 meters off the deck! Four backgrounds with full affine transformation, 256 scaled and rotated sprites, 4000+ colors, and all of it at rock solid 60FPS. Thirty years later that's still heavy hardware. If you never experienced this on release and took a ride in that moving sit down cabinet, you just don't even know....
The enemy! Be careful! (childhood flashbacks)
Loved playing this game down at the arcades I just wish they never removed the classic barrel roll you could perform in the original After Burner was such a sweet move to perform
FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE
this is topgun-now this is topgun on drugs
9:20 the Out Run car running along the jet lol
Terminator 2 brought me here
++++
Grunge 60th I remember. The first moment the T-1000 saw John Conor.
same fuckin here man
is john conner plays afterburner?
I used to play that game a lot in the 80s just a shame you no longer see them about
There is at least one of them left -- try Niagara Falls, Canada, basement of the Skylon Tower!
The 32X has a great port of After burner and looks exactly like the arcade
Blank Blank ...Yeah, if you could get it to work. My 32X crashed repeatedly. Space Harrier was also a direct translation.
Only the Saturn version is perfect!
@@Kapojos The Saturn version is not the only perfect arcade, the 3DS version was also the perfect arcade.
Ohhhhh those balls in the intro animation always impressed me or something
This is one of the hardest games ever and this person played this game like a boss good job
After Burner, Ridge Racer, Mortal Kombat 1, and Street Fighter 2 World Warrior were my favorite Arcade games
I remember playing this at my local 7-eleven when they used to have 3 arcades in the stores. I also played this in laundrymats. Man, the good ol' 90's.
Those planes are so fast. But pretty cool 😎
One of those games I loved to play, especially the sit-down cabinet, but could never keep track of everything going on. Just shot everything in sight and moved about like a mad man.
it was this game that got me into the ace combat games. it was so realistic in the arcade with the moving machine believe it or not.
I used to finish the game with one coin. But I remember always get short on missiles. I see these player no using them
One Yu Suzuki's earliest and best.
That's an F15 on the Genesis cover!! XD Still, this was such an amazing game. This, SF2 and OutRun left me absolutely awestruck as a kid.
Fly The F-14 Tomcat In AFTER BURNER 2! The High Flying Arcade Hit From Sega!
“Hey John, there is cop asking for you. Check it out”
32 years ago
I remember playing it for the first time at a standup cabinet. Stick was very heavy and had force feedback. It was my fav ever since.
Splendid video! The graphics are super sharp^^ Usually I am not into emulation but this looked fantastic.
If you enjoyed the video, check out my new After Burner longplay in even higher quality: th-cam.com/video/Hns7XAPr8q4/w-d-xo.html
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays what emulator is being used for this?
I must have played the sit-down version 20 times in the Disneyland arcade back in 1987. At the time it was the most exciting experience of my life.
Just watched this playthrough with TH-cam VR on my HTC Vive...Really makes the action that much more intense watching it on a 100+ inch screen!
That cabin of plane was great to play, nothing like that so far 👍👍👍👍
Man this game was so fun at the arcades. They should do a remake for this game and make it in full 4k UHD Virtual Reality mode.
I wanted to save all my summer money to buy this arcade game. Never did but man did I really want it. It was next level & can't believe how fast it plays even now.
In just two minutes, he was already able to shoot-down 30 planes.
30 enemy planes in two minutes!
Back in the day when movie theaters had arcade games. I loved this one very much. That joystick was a lot of fun.... yanking on it and making noise. I was never any good at this game but it took my quarters before watching a show...
“Hang on!” SEGA
04:11
Jeesus that game looks epic and still impressive thx yt recommandations
before sonic, for me this was the most popular game of sega
Sega´s gold age..
Luciano Ozorio this and Space Harrier 2
Are you playing with or without some sort of God mode? If you are playing the game normally, your skill is incredible. The best games of Afterburner I've ever seen. Completing the whole game with only one ship is out of this world. It reminds me of the days when I could complete Space Harrier with just one man.
Afterburner was Sega doing business right. Top gun had only come out a year before so this game had to have been it's spiritual molvie tie-in. The music sounded incredible for an 80's arcade machine. The colors, the speed (Blast Processing!) the action on the screen. This game had no chance of failing.
Definitely - did you notice on the first land refuelling there's a little motorbike riding alongside the jet taking off?
Bayonetta brought me here! Awesome game tho!
the main reason I fucking love this game is how fucking CRAZY it gets.
The game was amazing, but it blew my mind in 60 FPS!
🎶highway to the danger zone🎶
This is the most definitive top gun game.
Nostalgia pura vendo esse gameplay!
All of my friends had NES when I was A kid. I had a Sega Master System with Afterburner..... to this day I have never gone past stage 13.
I remember playing this on Sega Master System then on Genesis and after completing the last mission I remember my eyes burning only dying once . Ending similar to Top Gun for NES.
SEGA and F-14.
Awesome.
I cant help but think of how much more dynamic this game would feel with Wii Remote or PS Move pointer controls..