Possibly inspired by the contemporary movie, Top Gun
The video game After Burner is a arcade-style flight simulator released by Sega in 1987. 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 came in several versions, the most famous being a large, hydraulic, sit-down cabinet which resembled a cockpit and moved according to the motion of the plane onscreen. There was also a much less thrilling upright version.
At the time videogames began to blossom as a form of entertainment in the 1970s, music was stored on physical medium in analog waveforms like compact cassettes and phonograph records.
Games for the N64, because of the cost of the solid state memory, typically had samples of lesser quality than the other two however, and music tended to be simpler in construct.
Appreciation for videogame music, particularly music from the Third and Fourth generation of home videogame console and sometimes newer generations, continues today in very strong representation in both fans and composers alike, even absent the presence of a VideoGame.
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