I just discovered your channel last week and have been watching your videos non-stop. Your passion and knowledge for arcade machines is amazing. Keep up the great work and you've got a new fan.

we had the cockpit version at a bowling center i worked at, and it was a great moneymaker (when working) but was broken more than it was working. (seat motors)

I was able to snag the sit down Deluxe version in perfect working condition this past weekend. I haven't been this excited since I went to Neverland!!!!!!¡

I can't stop watching all your videos... I love when you show all the features in the games, it's so refreshing to see the game in a different way instead of just playing it.

Great restoration. The color television on that AB II is sharp and beautiful.

I loved After Burner growing up. One of the arcades in one of the malls in my hometown had the cockpit version. It was expensive to play as it cost a dollar but man was it cool!

I have After Burner II and love it. I looked for one for years and have the upright one. I loved playing the unique sit down version as a kid. Such a great game. So happy to owe it.

Afterburner had the best soundtrack ever for any arcade game. If I can remember, it was one of the first (if not the first) game to use two Motorola 68000 processors, hence the huge cost. They really didn't have an accurate console version till almost ten years later. The Star Trek Cockpit version was so much fun for the day, and it came out right when Khannnnnnnn! came out too! Vector graphics had such a simplistic, yet awesome charm for its time. My screenwriting professor actually wrote Chris Farley's would-be last movie. The movie had finally been greenlit, and my Professor and his co-writer were eating in a diner in Los Angeles and when they came out, he said it was like a scene out of a movie. He turned on the radio and the announcer immediately said that Chris Farley had died. Ultimately, that movie never got made.

I knew a guy who drove a mail truck in Arkansas. One day he was returning back with an empty truck and he saw an After Burner environmental on the side of the road for garbage. He picked it up and dropped it off at his house. He changed the fuses and it worked!

Never played an After Burner but man it looks like a cool game for that era.

That Afterburner Cab is beautiful!! Wow, it's like a 1986 time warp

I played an Afterburner cab that was a large big screen with a cockpit on a platform that could move it back and forward, side to side. I haven't ever seen one since and I was a little kid, it was at the top of a ski lodge type of place maybe in North Dakota.

Were there no dedicated After Burner II upright cabinets, or were they all After Burner cabinets with a throttle added?

My arcade in Lancaster, PA had one of these. I must have spent a fortune on it!!!

glad I got to play the cockpit version of it knowing they're mostly gone. I think the arcade charged 50 cents or maybe it was even a WHOLE DOLLAR a play.

Love After Burner. I have several ports of it on the Genesis, Master System (which is mostly based on AB1 without the throttle controls), the unofficial Tengen port for the NES, and the 3DS version which not only emulates the X hardware, but it also features faux overlays which make it feel like the real arcade version (and the overlays include the original upright, cabaret, the left and right Commander sit-down, and the Deluxe Commander sit-down), in fact, the people who developed the port (M2) even went as far as to record every detailed sound including the Deluxe Commander's cooling fans

It was a pretty impressive game for 1988.

Frank laughing @ 10:40 to Todd's "I don't last too long." nice. Great job guys.

In popular culture after burner 2 did appeared in terninator 2 judgement day

Ah After Burner played famously by John Conner in the awesome Terminator 2 and i also had the pleasure of playing it recently for the first time in years at my local Arcade Club in all its 360 glory :)

Afterburner..God that is sweet. We had one, and literally got bored, repairing the handle, for the shaker motor. There was the upright, then the cabaret version you mention. Did you ever see the small cradle version, that rocked left and right?..and then the huge 360 cabinet..that was £2 a play..about $3.50..a 17 coin for a credit!. love the videos.

mate you are going to get me fired. i am in work and all i wanna do is watch your friggin great vids. would love to go to an arcade that still had outrun afterburner and spaceharier. all 3 as the moving seats. that is the holy trinity.

I remember playing a cock pit After Burner at Major Magic's Pizza (formally Show BIz Pizza) in Reading, PA. It cost a DOLLAR which I thought, as a kid, was insane!

Now I have to sit in my bed to watch your new videos...

I have this same machine. Picked it up at am amusement machine auction. Everything runs like a dream except there was no sound coming from it at the auction. I figured they just had the volume turned down. Got home and turned the volume up and there's still no sound. Some day Ill find a wiring schematic online and figure it out what's missing/damaged. Until then....its a silent game

Todd you have so many amazing games in your Personal collection can we please see a video on those.

Tempted to buy this on whim heh.

My arcade in Ohio i go to has this exact Afterburner machine, I played it yesterday and it's really fun

One of the restaurants in my hometown had an After Burner right next to an Altered Beast.

Never not be holding down the vulcan canon button!!

Love these videos. It's nice to see the inner workings of these awesome classic games. Do you have any videos on old VS. Red Tent Top systems? They usually had tennis or Super Mario Bros/Excitebike in them.

In my neck of the woods Afterburner was 50 cents a play :)

Nice

I live in Philadelphia and i would watch this infomericial when i would get smoked up and it was just as good a "The Wall "

"I feel the need. The need for speed." - Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.

Hi, love your videos! Did you use LED bulbs in the afterburner cabinet? I just want to make sure there will be no issues when using LED

todd, are there only 5 digits for the coin counter? if so, how do we know that it hasn't gone round multiple times already?

What does a standard upright After Burner go for these days, Todd?

I used to play Star Trek to such a high level - Spock's voice would start to crackle. I'd turn around and 20 people would be watching. lol Could play that game for hours. Of course my first Star Trek game was on a mainframe. My second was one I wrote- I gave option of time travel, and I had to add 5 dimensional arrays for that - The problem was- if a user paused (exited game) at coords X, Y, Z, T1, T2 ? And some OTHER user playing ? would visit those coordinates ? I could never solve for the anomaly of two people in one place - so I didn't finish it. I think the linear temporal model was the problem all along, makes for great movies though?

They had the upright at my college in '88. I swear it was set to 50 cents.

Any chance these coin counters were reset or did that just ordinarily not happen?

I got the game AND since sime months the DLX-Cockpit too. Todd, you always stress to upgrade to LED's to keep voltages low, are there big enough LED's for the two red lights on the of the machine available?

The sound is a little different on this one. Is that because it's a conversion of a different box than Tempest?

Hi Todd, do you ever get the Class of 1812 coming through your doors, I've read on the internet that this is one of your favourite pins, I haven't seen it featured on your videos?...

I love watching these videos (it always makes me reminiscence the arcade alleys in my hometown of Fort Smith, AR) Anyway I got a question. in 3:57 I see the cabaret Asteroids cabinet in the background. Do you have a video of that one in action, and how much would one of those cost?

Another great video Todd! How's that K2 coming along?

There was a game like this but you started pn a runway and was hard to take off

Todd. is there a video showing your private stash of cabs please would love to see them. if you have the video somewhere could you send me a link i would love to see a tour of you home arcade please? i finish work in 3 hours and will wait until then to see it.

If I buy that game will I have a shady guy in dark sunglasses stop by my home once a week for the Organization's 50% cut?

great vid. I bought a after burner and it playes great. the only thing missing was the plastic part of the control stick..i rigged up something so I can still play. do you know where I can get a control stick. cant find one anywhere..lol

So never play After Burner but it looks like it's so a lot of fun. Consoles or Mame will never beat a classic arcade.

Do you ever, or have ever, get Sega's R-360? The big motion upside down machine?

can you not swap the television set for a different one?

GASOLINE????? You have the watch the episode where they mention "Ion Propulsion". Any "Trekkie" would poke your eyes out. :)

wow, that has got to be a major rush job Sega did with Star Trek because Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan was still on people's mind when the thing came out. no wonder it was poorly constructed. I guess Scotty was major shore leave while that thing was being made.

Todd. Todd Todd Todd. I love your videos, have had a great time at your facility on several occasions, and highly respect what you do for the hobby and industry. So please understand all of that when I tell you, that was the most pathetic, amateur hour game of AfterBurner I've ever seen! To get blown up by the first enemy that takes a shot at you?? Good Lord! It was so bad I had to comment on this two year video. I would type more, but I'll save some for if I see you at my upcoming TNT party next month!

u a good dude.

wouldn't know about Spike :( can't get the channel but did watch it on huffingtonpost (whoever owns Spike owns whatever it is with packages and cable companies are starting to put their foot down so No Spike , comedy channel MTV VH1 (who watches those? ) oh well.. don't watch cable :)

Big Big Fan, Oh Boys That Trek is Looking dickerd Beg my Pard. Tilt it! Boys

thought I Just watched that game in a movie then you mention the Cockpit version oh duh Terminator 2 :P John's playing the thing. yeah I could see why playing that one would be more fun. :P kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jp1kg9lzlcemfo0.html copied at time

Man Todd I love you but I’m thinking you should stick to PacMan. You didn’t use the After Burners at all. After all the game is called After Burner. Well Game Over!