After Burner ROM

Single player first person flight combat game. Analogue or digital directional controls, analogue or digital throttle and 2 buttons. Button 1 fires your gun, button 2 fires your limited armament of missiles.

There's very little introduction, you launch from an aircraft carrier (called SEGA Enterprise) in an F-14 fighter and battle a series of baddies who are trying to blow you up with gun or missile. You can shoot your gun through a square reticule or wait until you get a missile lock on one of the baddies and then fire your missile. All the while you are trying to avoid being blown out of the sky by quite a large number of enemies.

You fight over a series of stages with some involving navigation through tight passages and attacking ground targets. Every few stages you are replenished with missiles.

In the arcades with the full cockpit cabinet, this was a thing of beauty to behold and play. I loved it, but sadly I was never any good at it :D It is a tough game made even tougher when emulated and played on a gamepad. Still, great fun and an easy way to kill an hour of time away.