After Burner II on Commodore Amiga

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Gameplay from After Burner II by Argonaut/Activision/Sega playing on the Commodore Amiga vintage home computer. Retro Gaming.

This is not a review, walkthrough, playthrough, or demonstration of my playing ability.
It's more a case of me speaking my thoughts while playing the games, many for the first time, and most for the first time in a very long time... so it's all a little spontaneous and random.
Predictably, as I never practice before recording, I usually play very badly.

Given that I am playing many of these games for the first time, and everything I say is completely off the cuff, you probably shouldn't take what I say overly seriously. The opinions that I express are my feelings at the time, but it's entirely possible that they would be different if I were to take the time to get to grips with the game.

However, given that these videos are intended to show that "first time experience", I believe they have some validity or merit.

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[PrimeAmsterdam]

3. With afterburner, when I died, I crashed on the ground, I did not explode in mid air! 4. My afterburner started on a ship where i lifted of. Again ,i stress ,this was on an Amiga! I am going to look in my old disks , if I happen to find afterburner i will send it to you ,but I am a 101% certain that you have the wrong version. By the way , you are my favorite show on youtube, thanx a lot :D !!

[SteveBenway]

@PrimeAmsterdam I know the version you are talking about. It is the US version, coded (I think) by Sega, while the one I have made this video of is published by Activision and coded by Argonaut. This one is considered the UK version.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

You don't think all these big names from the past that now work on iPhone app games are really there as they're comfortable making non-processor intensive/3D games? Sort of like it's the closest we have nowadays to their style of games they're comfortable with?

[SteveBenway]

@ScrewAttackEurope That's a very good point. Could be :)

[cakestalker]

@SteveBenway

This other port he is talking about was just called After Burner (not II), and it had much better graphics and looked a lot more faithful to the arcade version. After Burner and After Burner II is the same game though.. II just had some changes.

[auritone]

@PrimeAmsterdam Sega actually released another Afterburner of the Amiga and it was a lot better than Activisions.

[gollumondrugs]

Hi Steve, I remember at 14 years old waiting for this to come out on the Amiga after many many delays. I had it on backorder as I wanted it so much! When it arrived, just like you, I thought WTF! It was appauling! I also thought like you that the B team of Argonaut must have worked on this. Later found out that Jez San worked on this himself! Can't beleive they let this be released in such a state. Also, you didn't play the intro music? Its the best and worst part of the whole game!

[malc1976]

what went wrong with this vesion? its a port of the st version and published by activision in the uk

the american version is good a bit like the megadrive

[scroogeballs]

Benway is a sad little man. The reason why he plays with his computers is very simple, it is becaus his wife is ugly and playing games all day keeps his mind off the beast !! Yes Benway, it is true. It is time for you to leave YouTube because your boring and nobody wants you here. Deactivate you account and go away !!!!

[wrestletube1]

They probably intentionally like a lot of developers in the good old days made the AMIGA port crappy to drive the people to play SEGA since this is a SEGA own produced game after all.

Other ported SEGA games that were not SEGA like Puggsy made it good to the AMIGA.

[PrimeAmsterdam]

Wow , i was waiting for this vid and you're right, its quite awfull! hahaha horrible

BUT sorry friend but this is not the afterburner i played on the amiga and let me tell you why. 1. Maybe (well maybe v :-D?) I am stupid and I meant afterburner 1 but i think it was defenitly AB2 that i played. 2. The afterburner that I played on Amiga was in a compilationpack with Thunderblade,Shinobi and Alien Syndrome, a white box with all those for games.

[BlooditeDrakan]

THE FUCKING VOICE!! D:

Man what a port... I'll go get a Megadrive version instead.