SEGA Master System

After Burner

Com três jatos F-14 Thunder Cat (de acordo com a pontuação, cinco milhões ou 15 milhões de pontos, podem surgir jatos adicionais), você precisa superar 18 etapaas de combate aéreo para encontrar os planos secretos e voltar ao porta-aviões Sega.

I wish there was more to write about but there isn't; the game is a dumbed down version of an already ridiculously simple game. I think After Burner fans will be mad at the missing controls and speed but maybe slog through it if they are in a tolerant mood. Everyone else who tries it will most likely play it for five minutes, grow bored, and shut of the old SMS. I can't say it's really that bad, it scraps the bottom rung of mediocre, but I can't recommend it. The box art is nice for a SMS game though, maybe you could put it on a shelf or something.

After Burner is an average shooter. While it looks good, there is just so little to do. Enemies all move and shoot similarly, and there are no power-ups. Shooter fans and fans of the Arcade version are probably the only ones who should try this one.

After Burner, like Out Run, is a mammoth conversion to attempt and inevitably suffers some way during the translation. On the Sega, the game has the speed and the same style of action, but without the incredible graphics it's little more than a fast and very difficult shoot 'em up.

The sprites don't look bad at all - in fact, they are only slightly inferior to the 32X version. The planes are large and detailed, but the flat scenery below is uninteresting. I also wasn't impressed by the trail of gray circles that appear when your plane goes down (it that supposed to be smoke?). This is not a bad translation, but the game itself is pretty lame.

Overall, After Burner for the Sega Master System is terrible. The screen is way too busy, you can’t tell if enemies are coming or going, it’s hard to shoot things, and it’s easy to die. The graphics are clever at best, and the soundtrack is nothing to write home about. Most offensive of all however, is the complete lack of fun when playing. Avoid After Burner at all costs.

After Burner is a sad game, not simply because it was sad to begin with, but even more so because Sega decided to not really do anything to make it better. They just took the same crappy game and made it slightly crappier because they had to tone down the sound quality and graphics. They really should have made a unique game for the Master System based on this, perhaps a nice shooter or something. Instead, the player is plagued by the same arcade menace that I don't remember anyone actually playing. Consider long and hard before buying this game.

Don’t buy Afterburner. Don’t even try it. A good deal of Sega Master System owners found their consoles equipped with the simplistic Hang On. At the time, I remember thinking, ''is this all there is to it?'' It featured only a handful of levels: the daytime, the nighttime, the desert, and so on (again, with the palette swapping), and these stretches would be repeated, getting a little harder with every loop. But there were landmarks in the distance, and light posts and the like would mark the road, giving you the illusion of forward motion. Afterburner has none of this. If you should somehow, unluckily stumble into a bout with this game, and forget all the horrible shortcomings I’ve mentioned, the reasons as to why you shouldn’t play—the single, simple, ingratiating tune that plays incessantly should offer you a constant reminder.