AfterBurner Climax PSN/XBLA confirmed

By Oli Welsh Published 28 January, 2010

Revival of arcade revival this spring.

SEGA has finally confirmed that it will release AfterBurner Climax on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this spring.

AfterBurner Climax revived SEGA's eighties jet-fighting classic for the arcade in 2006, in much the same way as OutRun 2 had done for the evergreen racer. Unlike that game, however, Climax has not yet made its way into the home.

However, an XBLA and PSN conversion was suggested by both common sense and an Australian Ratings Board classification last year. The game was recently confirmed for release in Japan, and an ESRB rating earlier today promted SEGA's US and European arms into confirming the news.

They made up for the wait by posting a frankly dazzling trailer on YouTube, bless them.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • RobotRocker #1 2 years ago

    BLUE SKIES

  • gamingdave #2 2 years ago

    About time!

  • Nazo #3 2 years ago

    This may be my first PSN purchase.

  • cherryuk #4 2 years ago

    Lovely stuff, arcade game is well cool if you can find it in the arcades!

    Daytonaaaaaah! isn't far behind then?

  • Malek86 #5 2 years ago

    Before you guys ask (whoops, too late), Daytona USA is apparently receiving the remake treatment as "Sega Racing Classic" for the new RingWide arcade platform. Unfortunately, it's less of a remake and more of a "let's just up the resolution".

    That said, since the RingWide is the less powerful of the two new platforms, and still PC-based, it should be pretty easy to port it to PSN or XBLA. Probably easier than the Model 2 version. I'm betting on it, that it will eventually come.
    Edited by 1 at 28/01/10 @ 18:54

  • NinjaWilliams #6 2 years ago

    I wanna fly sky high
    Let's go together

    I wanna fly sky high
    Let's go together

    I wanna...

    * Repeat

    Yeah, hey, oh
    Yeah, flying high
    Feeling good

    ** Blue, blue skies
    Blue, blue skies, I see

    Blue, blue skies
    Blue, blue skies, I see

    Blue, blue skies
    Blue, blue skies, I see

    * Repeat

    * Repeat

    Yeah, hey, oh
    Yeah, flying high
    Feeling good

    ** Repeat

    I wanna...

    ** Repeat

  • Skeletor #7 2 years ago

    NICE! And just like in Japan, this one is 800MSP since MSP-prices are all the same worldwide.

  • Slipstream #8 2 years ago

    Climax is SEGA's word!

    Nailed it with Bayo and now Afterburner?
    It's looking like pure arcade heaven, I sense another Outrun success style story.

  • chrisola #9 2 years ago

    that looks amazing to be honest.

    If only i had a moving arcade cabinet to sit in and play my consoles from :p

  • OnlyMe #10 2 years ago

    I so look forward to this.

  • Shakey_Jake33 #11 2 years ago

    PC version on Steam please Sega! I'd buy it, anyway!

  • Ryze #12 2 years ago

    TOOK LONG ENOUGH!

    Now do Daytona.

  • Bander #13 2 years ago

    How about a report on the European Amusement and Gaming Expo that just took place?

    No?

    I'll have a go at writing it then.

    Daytona HD/Sega Racing Classic has nice bright orange bits on its cabinet. I thought they looked good. There was also a stand that sold brightly coloured carpets.

    Er, that's it. The most exciting arcade development is something that can already be experienced at home via emulator, if you have a gaudy carpet and an orange chair.

    I am excited about After Burner Climax, and will be buying it on day one of release. But the home port pretty much marks the end of an era. If arcades were anything like how they used to be, they would be where we would go to be playing stereoscopic games that fill your field of vision using high contrast screens, and the visuals would be raytraced with a dozen quad-core processors inside each unit. Home equivalents would look like a stuttering, flat, blocky mess by comparison.

    Sigh.

  • smoothpete #14 2 years ago

    gimme gimme gimme!!!

  • linea #15 2 years ago

    Finally!

    SSEEEEEEEEHHHH-GAAAAAAAA

  • Monkey_Puncher #16 2 years ago

    Climax in my pants!

  • oupe #17 2 years ago

    Although I played afterburner a lot on pc and in the arcade it never occurred to me that it actually was a good game?

  • Redeye #18 2 years ago

    Roll on spring - definitely a first day purchase. Doubly so, having watched that reveal trailer on YT.

    *waits impatiently*

  • cherryuk #19 2 years ago

    Rare video of Takenobu Mitsuyoshi & Rony Barrak live!

    Datonaaaaah!

    http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=JwLLwpRfl-8

    0:58 to the meat and bones!
    Edited by 1 at 29/01/10 @ 13:19