Fire and forget This B2 bomber is just one of the officially licensed planes available to unlock. It may be more Iron Eagle than Top Gun these days but, from the stomping rock soundtrack to the ludicrous animated opening sequence and pilots called Sonic, it's clear that despite the presence of officially licensed warplanes the tedious realities of aerial warfare aren't even close to being on the agenda. While some developers clearly think that the only way to interest modern gamers in old titles is to turn them all dour and serious, Planet Moon Studios has embraced the cheesy over-the-top stylings of Sega's classic years, serving it up with just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek irony. There's also a welcome streak of humour running through the proceedings. Much like Capcom's rejiggered Ultimate Ghosts ‘n Goblins, for all the greased-up graphics it's immediately recognisable as After Burner, an undeniable continuation of its own gaming lineage. Wisely resisting the temptation to expand the concept of the original into a free-roaming flight sim, something that would render the whole enterprise utterly generic, what you get is a truly old school linear blaster in which you hurtle down corridor-like courses, dodging missiles from land, sea and air based foes while retaliating in kind with an arsenal of weapons that make stuff blow up, big style. After Burner is brought to you by the power of EXPLOSION.
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Thankfully, this remarkably entertaining remake/reboot turns out to be a veritable case study in How To Update Old Games, and is actually a more interesting game than After Burner Climax, the erotically titled new version now noising up the arcades. Either way, for a game that previously relied so heavily on sheer size and spectacle, going handheld would seem to be an odd decision.
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Well, unless you count the original's inclusion Sega Arcade Gallery on the GameBoy Advance, in which case the PSP provides only the second smallest screen to host thundering sky-jockeys.
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The smaller the screen became the more you were aware that, without being lurched hither and thither by servo motors, there wasn't really a whole lot of meat on the bone.įifteen years since the series last official outing (the redubbed Strike Fighter, shovelled onto Sega CD as After Burner III in the US and Japan) After Burner is finally back - and on the smallest screen yet. That may be why the various home versions, while fondly remembered, never quite recaptured the heady arcade buzz. While the grapevine hyperbole rarely lived up to the reality of that hulking machine over by the soft toy grabber, it was enough to forever burn the game into the collective gaming consciousness. "That's nothing - a kid in America made it go upside down and his brain turned inside out and then he DIED." Move in mysterious ways "My Dad says it's a stimulator and they're using it to test people who can be real fighter pilots.
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"My brother's played it and says you sit in the actual cockpit from a real plane!" Arriving to an audience already primed for bombastic fighter pilot thrills by the cinematic release of Top Gun the previous year, After Burner also boasted the sort of monstrous eye-catching arcade cabinet that guaranteed fevered playground word of mouth. Yu Suzuki took the forwards rush of the sorely overrated Space Harrier and tweaked it into something more visceral. It's probably fair to say that the impact After Burner made on young gaming minds back in 1987 was only partially down to the hectic high-flying gameplay.
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