DESCRIPTION (Game / Technical)

DESCRIPTION OF GAME (courtesy of wikipedia, KLOV and Arcade-History.com)


After Burner II © 1987 Sega.

After Burner II is an arcade-style flight game released by Sega in 1987. It is the second game in the After Burner series. In the game, you fly a F-14 Tomcat jet fighter, gunning down enemies while avoiding incoming fire. Like Out Run, another Sega arcade game, After Burner II came in several versions, the most famous being a large, servo actuated, sit-down cabinet which resembled a cockpit and moved according to the motion of the plane onscreen. The cockpit would bank in the same direction the on-screen aircraft was banking. There was also a much less thrilling upright version.

The differences between After Burner and After Burner II are very small, and it is easy to confuse the two. The differences included:

• The waiting-for-start sequence (the screen/music after a player inserts credits but before starting the game) is different.
• After Burner II added a throttle to the controls, allowing players to vary their speed while flying.
• After Burner has 18 stages; After Burner II has those same stages but adds three additional stages that make 21 stages total.
• After Burner II added a few minor enemy changes to introduce new speed-based challenges (missiles/aircraft behind the player aircraft) to account for the use of the new throttle control.
• The player's missiles in After Burner II could be fired considerably more frequently.
• Musical compositions were the same for both games, though After Burner's instrumentation is different in spots.

It´s a 3-D Sega game rendered with their superb sprite-scaling technology; this time putting the player into the seat of a powerful jet fighter.
23 colourful, fast-moving stages await the player, as he or she takes on the hordes of enemy planes intent on the player's destruction.
At the end of every 2nd stage, the player's jet fighter is re-fueled and re-armed, either by the appearance of a large support plane, or by landing on a military airstrip.
After Burner's straightforward shoot'em up gameplay is unremarkable and repetitive, but fun largely down to the game's incredible visuals.



TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

After Burner II © 1987
Publisher(s): Sega.
Developer(s) Sega-AM2
Designer(s) Yu Suzuki
Music by : Hiroshi Miyauchi
Class: Wide Release

• Players : 1
• Conversion Class: Sega After Burner
• Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
• Maximum number of Players: 1
• Gameplay: Single
• Control Panel Layout: Single Player

Deluxe cabinet dimensions : 80'' (203cm) Deep x 53'' (135cm) Wide x 69'' (175cm) High. Weight : 800 lbs (362 kg)
[Upright cabinet dimensions : 24,8'' (63cm) Deep x 33,9'' (86cm) Wide x 72,8'' (185cm) High. Weight : 273 lbs (124 kg)]


Sega X Board hardware

• Game ID : 834-6335-02
• Main CPU : (2x) 68000 (@ 12.5 Mhz)
• Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
• Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 4 Mhz), Sega (@ 4 Mhz)

Monitor:

• Orientation: Horizontal
• Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
• CRT: Color
• Screen orientation : Horizontal
• Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
• Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
• Palette colors : 24576
  

Controls:

• Throttle Lever
• Joystick: Analog with trigger and thumb button (2 buttons)