Sega's "Zaxxon" (1982) was one of the first video games to feature shadows, and also the first video game for which a TV commercial was produced. Are you a gamer? Do you like free things? Of course ...

Sega’s isometric arcade shooter Zaxxon is 30 years old. You know what that means? Well, first it means that you’re either ancient (if you remember it) or just a baby (if you don’t.) Second, it means ...

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This week on Shack's Arcade Corner, we take a look at Zaxxon. Zaxxon is an isometric shooter arcade game, developed and released in 1982 by Sega. Some sources claim that Japanese electronics company ...

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Zaxxon is a game that I encourage you to appreciate for its visual achievement in the early '80s, and its contribution to the development of flight games as a whole. But it's not a game I encourage ...

The latest classic video game series to be resurrected as a barely recognizable, completely different game on phones is Zaxxon. No longer a scrolling shooter with a frustrating isometric perspective, ...

This one I totally could not resist. Aside from Spy Hunter, Zaxxon has to be one of my all-time favorite games. I remember playing this for hours on my old DOS PC back in the day. The simple premise ...

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