After Burner II
Developer(s)	Sega-AM2
Publisher(s)	Sega
Designer(s)	Yu Suzuki
Release date(s)	1987 (Arcade) 1989 (Amiga) 1989 (Atari ST) 1989 (DOS) 1989 (Famicom) 1989 (NES) 1990 (Genesis) 1990 (TurboGrafx-16)
Genre(s)	Shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	Single player
Platform(s)	Arcade, Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, NES, Genesis, TurboGrafx-16
Input	Joystick, trigger, missile button, throttle
Arcade cabinet	Standard upright, sit-down hydraulic cockpit
Arcade system(s)	X Board
Arcade display	Raster

After Burner II is an arcade-style flight game released by Sega in 1987. It's 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. Image File history File links After_burner_2. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... Sega Amusement Machine Research and Development Department 2 (popularly known as Sega AM2 or simply AM2) is a research and development team for the video game company Sega. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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• 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.
• 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.

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Ports

After Burner II has been ported to numerous home computers and consoles, including versions for the PC Engine, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis, Sega 32X, Famicom, NES, FM Towns Marty, Amiga, Commodore 64, and Sega Saturn. In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written. ... The Atari 2600, Sony PSOne, Nintendo Gamecube, and Xbox 360 A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer. ... The PC Engine was a video game console released by NEC, a Japanese company, in 1987. ... The Sega Master System (SMS for short) is an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console that was manufactured by Sega. ... The Sega Mega Drive was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System (U.S., Europe, and Australia) NES redirects here. ... NES redirects here. ... The FM Towns Marty console, which was released by Fujitsu in Japan in 1993. ... The original Amiga 1000 (1985) with Commodore 1080 monitor The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced home entertainment and productivity machine. ... The Commodore 64 is the best selling single personal computer model of all time. ... The Sega Saturn ) is a 32-bit video game console, first released on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America and July 8, 1995 in Europe. ...

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Commodore 64 port is notable for having two vastly different versions. The version released for European market has poor graphics and considered one of the worst ports, whereas the version released in US market is far superior with better graphics, music and playability.

Trivia

• After Burner II was originally planned to have a World War II theme and make it a realistic flight sim but was dropped because Yu Suzuki states that "It would not have fit the arcade scene." A pure dogfighter was not his intention.

• Although the plane you pilot is a variation of the F-14, the game's US version uses an F-15 Eagle in its cover.

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External links

• After Burner II at the Killer List of Videogames
• After Burner II at MobyGames
• After Burner II at Arcade-History
• Afterburner II at the Hall of Light
• Webbased TG-16 After Burner II port
• Webbased Genesis After Burner II port