aburner is a rail shooterarcade video game developed and released by Sega in 1987.^[8][9] 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. The plane is equipped with a machine gun and a limited supply of heat-seeking missiles. The game uses a third-person perspective, as in Sega’s earlier Space Harrier (1985) and Out Run (1986). It runs on the Sega X Board arcade system which is capable of surface and sprite rotation. It is the fourth Sega game to use a hydraulic “taikan” motion simulatorarcade cabinet, one that is more elaborate than their earlier “taikan” simulator games.^[10] The cabinet simulates an aircraft cockpit, with flight stick controls, a chair with seatbelt, and hydraulic motion technology that moves, tilts, rolls and rotates the cockpit in sync with the on-screen action.^[11]

Gameplay – aburner

The game allows the player to control an F-14 Tomcat jet airplane. At the start of the game, the player takes off from an aircraft carrier called the SEGA Enterprise on a mission to destroy enemy jets over 18 stages.

In the arcade version, the jet employs a machine gun and a limited number of heat-seeking missiles (in the Master System version the player has unlimited missiles). These weapons are replenished by another aircraft, after beating a few stages. The aircraft, cannon and missile buttons are all controlled from an integrated flight stick.

Reception

Reception

Publication	Score
	Arcade	C64	Master System	PC	Sega Genesis	ZX
Computer Gaming World			Positive[17]	[16]
Crash						86%[18]
Computer and Video Games	Positive[19]		9/10[20]
GameFan					232/300 (32X)[21]
GamePro					15.5/20 (32X)[22]
Sinclair User	8/10[25]					90%[23]
The Games Machine (UK)	Positive[24]
Your Sinclair	Positive[9]
Zzap!64		17%[26]
Console XS			85%[27]
Top Score	Positive[28]

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