

It is the fourth Sega game to use a hydraulic "taikan" motion simulator arcade cabinet, one that is more elaborate than their earlier "taikan" simulator games. It runs on the Sega X Board arcade system which is capable of surface and sprite rotation. The game uses a third-person perspective, as in Sega's earlier Space Harrier (1985) and Out Run (1986). The plane is equipped with a machine gun and a limited supply of heat-seeking missiles. The player controls an American F-14 Tomcat fighter jet and must clear each of the game's eighteen unique stages by destroying incoming enemies. After Burner is a rail shooter arcade video game developed and released by Sega in 1987.
