After Burner Climax
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| Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega AM2 System(s): Sega Lindbergh, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, iOS Genre: Shooting
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After Burner Climax (アフターバーナークライマックス) is an arcade game in the After Burner series developed by Sega AM2 and released on Sega Lindbergh arcade hardware in 2006. The game casts the player as a member of the G.H.O.S.T. squadron's Brave Fangs Aero Team, acting under UN authority to counter a hostile state's nuclear threat.
In December of 2014 the game was de-listed from Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network.
Contents
Gameplay
The game plays similarly to After Burner II with some mechanical additions, the most prominent of which is the "Climax Mode". When the Climax bar is filled, players are able to slow time and gain a much larger targeting reticule by pushing the throttle to its maximum. The player also gains an armor meter, which allows the player to take multiple hits before losing a life. Other new game features include a combo-based scoring system, an indoor stage, a limited branching path progression structure and a pre-game choice of aircraft.
Additionally, the game includes a Team Play Mode for linked cabinets. In this mode players team up to fight the enemy, with a winner being declared at the end of each round based on the score achieved during the stage.
Cabinet variants
The arcade version of After Burner Climax was made available in three types of cabinet. The standard version is a sit-down cabinet with no motion features. The standard motion model provides side-to-side motion, and an optional display housing is available for linked units. The deluxe motion model tilts to provide motion in all directions, and is fitted with a widescreen, high definition LCD monitor rather than the standard definition CRT monitors of the other models.
Production Credits
XBLA/PSN Version
Producer: Noriyuki Shimoda
Director: Masahide Kawakami
Lead Planner: Yoshiki Kanoh
Lead Programmer: Masayuki Sumi
Lead Artist: Seiji Aoki
Planners: Toshihide Ozeki, Tatsumi Yoshida
Programmers: Takuji Masuda, Yukinori Kaneko, Masanori Sakurai, Tsuguharu Nagasawa, Kensuke Itou
CG Artists:
- Aircraft Model: Akihito Hiroyoshi, Tomoyuki Tsukishima, Shinichi Chiba
- Field Design: Norikazu Hirai, Genta Takahashi, Shinya Inoue, Satoshi Andou, Hisanori Ohyama
- Effect Design: Ryo Shibasaki
- Character Design: Akihito Hiroyoshi
- 2D Graphics Design: Kazuya Suzuki, Daisuke Ueoka, Erika Aihara
- Movie: Shungo Seki, Yoshinari Itoh
- Motion: Toshiya Inoue, Shinya Shimada, Masayuki Ito
- Motion Actor: Daisuke Ueoka
- Management: Takehiko Mikami
Sound Creators: Tatsutoshi Narita, Keisuke Tsukahara, Fumio Itoh, Masanori Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Takagi, Tomoya Koga
- Original & New Arrange: Hiro
Cabinet Designers:
- Mechanical Engineers: Masayuki Makino, Naoya Yamaguchi, Yutaka Yokoyama, Toshiya Yamaguchi
- Electoric Engineer: Hiroyuki Takahashi
- Product Designer: Hiroki Nunokawa
Publicity: Kazumasa Nishijima, Nobutaka Arii
Game Tuning: Tatsumi Yoshida, Yuichi Tanabe
Game Tester: Naomichi Nishimura
Voice Cast:
- Gazer: Jack Merluzzi
- Jaguar02: Dominic Roger Allen
- Jaguar03: Vicki Glass
- Crew: Douglas Kirkpatrick
Special Thanks: Masaya Shirai, Takashi Mori, Toshiyuki Hado, Justin Burke, Daisuke Yoshida, Daisuke Naito, Hideki Miwa, Toshihiro Nakaya, Toshiaki Yuasa, Naonori Watanabe, Hidekuni Ohta, Shinichi Goto, Naoyuki Machida, Takuma Hatori, Sachiko Kobayashi, Keiko Ishiwata, Ken Yoshimura, Masanori Ohe, Hiroshi Kataoka
The typefaces included herein are solely developed by DynaComware.
Created by: AM R&D Dept. 2
Presented by: Sega
©Sega
Gallery
Standard cabinet
Deluxe cabinet
Super Deluxe cabinet
Artwork
Digital Manuals
Standard cabinet
Deluxe cabinet
Promotional material
Lindbergh US flyer
Lindbergh US flyer (alt)
Lindbergh UK flyer
XBLA/PSN Press release
Physical Scans
Lindbergh Version
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| Games in the After Burner Series | |
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After Burner (1987) | After Burner II (1987) | G-LOC: Air Battle (1990) | Strike Fighter (1991) | Sky Target (1995) | Sega Strike Fighter (2000) | After Burner Climax (2006) |
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After Burner III (1992) |
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After Burner Complete (1995) |
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Sega Ages After Burner II (1996) |
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After Burner: Black Falcon (2007) |
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3D After Burner II (2013) |
| After Burner Albums | |
| Sega Game Music Vol. 3 After Burner (1987) | After Burner (1990) | Strike Fighter (1991) | Yu Suzuki Produce After Burner II (1997) | After Burner Climax Sound Track (2006) | Retro Game Anthology #5 -AFTER BURNER in DREAM- (2007) | After Burner 20th Anniversary Box (2007) | |