After Burner: Sega’s jet-fighting, puke-inducing arcade marvel
Top Gun-inspired 1980s crowd pleaser Antique Code Show It was 1986, and the world went bonkers for Top Gun: that film about pleasant young chaps learning the flight ropes of F-14 Tomcats. New-wave synth poppers Berlin sang Take My Breath Away while straddling decommissioned aircraft; Tom Cruise apparently began a longstanding attempt to disguise his diminutive stature; and discussions abounded over the film's allegedly homoerotic sub-plot."