showing 3 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Gun | Konami;Hyundai (Konami) | 1987 | [media=youtube]https://youtu.be/wtm5IQEzoUw[/media]***You're a High Flying Fighter Jock. The Hottest Pilot in the Heat of a Battle. The sun shimmers on the horizon as your armed-to-the-teeth Navy fighter screams from the carrier deck, accelerating into the danger zone. High above hostile waters your mission is to defend the task force from enemy attack. Suddenly, bogeys flash onto your radar. They're everywhere, diving toward you at Mach 2. Only a second to react, you go to guns and arm missiles. Your heart pounds and palms sweat as you blast into the dogfight with cannons blazing. Tracers zip past your engines. Shells shatter your senses. Now it's just you against them. And to survive you'll need more than speed and firepower. You'll need guts and instinct. You'll need to be a "TOP GUN" pilot.*** [83]*** [17]*** [62]*** [49]*** [1]*** [52]***Top Gun is pretty much an Afterburner clone despite the little change from third-person to first-person perspective and in no way a serious flight simulation. I am generally not a fan of this type of shooting game. Added to the flight action there are notoriously difficult landing sequences and tanking in mid-air sequences which have to be managed if you don't want to lose a life. For a game based on a movie its not too bad I guess, at least it was a bit better than Ocean's computer versions. But that doesn't catapult it into regions above being only an average game.*** [27] | labelimagesubject |
| After Burner | Tengen | 1989 | The F-14 Thundercat. It's the fastest, meanest set of wings ever to slice through the air. And you're flying it! The action in this supercharged game is so intense, the graphics so real, you'll sweat bullets as bogeys fill the skies. Get vertigo from going vertical. The rush you feel is from pulling heavy G's as you try to evade lightning fast missiles and tracers. Feel your adrenaline pumping as your radar locks onto multiple targets and your Sidewinders blow them out of the sky. When you feel the need for speed, go supersonic with After Burner!***This should not be confused with the JP Sunsoft version of After Burner / After Burner II. Both ports were done independently. | labelimagesubject |
| After Burner | Sunsoft | 1989 | This should not be confused with the US Tengen version of After Burner. Both ports were done independently. The title screen says After Burner II, while the box title obmisses the II, which was also common with homecomputer versions, because After Burner II was only a minor upgrade instead of a whole new game.***アフターバーナ is tranliteration of "after burner" and literally reads [code]afutaa baana[/code]. | labelimageminimize |
