After Burner III

FM TownsSega CDGenre(s)Shoot 'em upMode(s)Single-player

After Burner III is a video game released for the FM-Towns home computer in Japan and later ported to the Sega CD in Japan, Europe and North America. It is the third game in the After Burner series, and a port of Strike Fighter, a game released for Japanese arcades, itself a sequel to G-LOC: Air Battle.

The basic controls are the same as previous games in the series but this time the player has access to unlimited missiles.^[1]

Mega Action gave a review score of 48% praising the arcade style graphics and sound, the game intro and the option to change the gameplay camera. They criticized the gameplay lacking plot, detail and playability.^[2]

• Kalata, Kurt (October 17, 2011). "Strike Fighter / After Burner III - Arcade, FM Towns, Sega CD (1991)". HardcoreGaming101. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
• "After Burner III" (PDF). Famitsu (in Japanese) (206). November 1992. Retrieved 21 June 2024.

• Official website
• After Burner III at MobyGames
• After Burner III at UVL