I love me some After Burner.  You fly as a cool jet through different locales, dodging missiles, shooting down planes, doing barrel rolls, and just being absolutely cool.  The arcade game translates okay to the small screen and it gets the point across.

Visuals:

After Burner, arcade, is a glorious showpiece of 80s video game technology.  It’s fast and hectic.  None of this comes over, visually, to the Master System.  You can tell they were limited with what they could do but it just looks like a sad game.  I guess, for the time, having this at home, in any version, would be better than not having it!

Audio:

Another place where the game fails to live up to its big brother.  Everything is lost but at least there was an effort.

Completion:

This game is fucking hard.  Just like the arcade, the enemies just punish you with everything they got.  Even though you’re not pumping in quarters, they don’t want you to finish without a fight.  I made it just barely to the second stage then all my lives/continues were up.  It doesn’t help the game runs slow as fuck.

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A simple game with multiple minigames consisting of card games (Poker, Blackjack, & Baccarat), slot machines, and pinball. You’re given an allotment of $500 to start with so you can start playing games. As I said, it’s pretty simple.

Visuals:

This game looks pretty nice for it being from the late 80’s. The cutscenes and games look really nice, but simple. They do doll up the women pretty much and make them always flirt with you, even when they’re ripping your guts out.

Audio:

Simple background happy music playing all the time to keep you going. The funniest bits are when you win or lose. You get a nice little chime with either that lets you know you suck.

Completion:

Started out with $500 and got my ass whupped by Nancy up there. I left the table after losing $250 and went to try my hand at blackjack where I lost $100 more. Moved to pinball which doesn’t take your money. My money was completely lost because my girlfriend told me that the only way to play slots is to to MAX BET. Lost all my money that way and then I was a destitute.

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