After Burner Climax

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After Burner Climax
System(s): Sega Lindbergh, PlayStation 3 (PSN), Xbox 360, iOS, Android
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega AM2 AM Ishoku Team Fishing Cactus
Genre: Shooting
Release Date RRP Code JP ▼ 2013-07-24 US ▼ 2013 $2.992.99 JP ▼ 2013-07-24 US ▼ 2013-02-07 $2.992.99 EU ▼ 2013
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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.

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

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  Standard cabinet

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  Deluxe cabinet

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  Super Deluxe cabinet

Artwork

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Digital Manuals

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  Standard cabinet

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  Deluxe cabinet

Promotional material

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  Lindbergh US flyer

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  Lindbergh US flyer (alt)

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  Lindbergh UK flyer

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  XBLA/PSN Press release

Physical scans

Lindbergh Version

Lindbergh,

External links

• After Burner Climax on iTunes: US, UK, JP (offline)
• After Burner Climax on Google Play (offline)

References

Games in the After Burner Series
	After Burner (1987) | After Burner II (home computers) (1987) | G-LOC: Air Battle (home computers) (1990) | Strike Fighter (1991) | Sky Target (1995) | Sega Strike Fighter (2000) | After Burner Climax (2006)
	After Burner (1987) | G-LOC: Air Battle (1991)
	After Burner (1988)
	After Burner II (1990) | G-LOC: Air Battle (1993)
	G-LOC: Air Battle (1990)
	After Burner III (1992)
	After Burner Complete (1995)
	Sega Ages After Burner II (1996) | Sky Target (1997)
	Sky Target (1997)
	After Burner II (200x) | After Burner II DX (2007)
	Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 10: After Burner II (2004)
	After Burner: Black Falcon (2007)
	After Burner Climax (2010)
	3D After Burner II (2013)
	After Burner Climax (2013)
After Burner related media
	Sega Game Music Vol. 3 After Burner (1987) | After Burner (1990) | Strike Fighter (1991) | Yu Suzuki Produce After Burner II (1997) | Yu Suzuki Produce G-LOC/R360/Virtua Racing (1998) | After Burner Climax Sound Track (2006) | After Burner 20th Anniversary Box (2007) | After Burner II (2018) | G-LOC Air Battle: Series Music Collection (2020)
	After Burner (1987) | After Burner / Super Hang-On (1987)