Hiroshi Kawaguchi's rousingly laidback main theme for the arcade version of After Burner. See more of my classic game video music playlist [ Ссылка ]

Released by Sega in 1987, After Burner is a third-person aircraft shooter that was more than just a little influenced by the preceding year's smash hit film Top Gun. You pilot an F14 Tomcat armed with a Vulcan machine gun and finite supply of heat-seeking missiles and dogfight your way through numerous waves of pesky enemy jets over both land and sea.

Following the success of the arcade machine, After Burner was ported to a variety of home systems, including the Sega Master System, Amiga, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

The seated cabinet version of After Burner has to be one of the favourite arcade experiences and something that the home versions never had a hope of capturing. As a kid, I loved strapping myself into the motorised cockpit, yanking the flight stick and then being shunted backwards and forwards and side-to-side in sync with my pixelated F14. Shame it wasn't cable of rotating 180 degrees for when you did a barrel-roll!

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