Zaxxon is a shooter developed by Bandai, released 31 December 1982 on Handheld Electronic LCD.
What Zaxxon is
Zaxxon is a shooter game developed by Bandai and released in 1982. It is available on Handheld Electronic LCD only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The handheld version of Zaxxon is a portable LCD game manufactured by Bandai with a license from Sega. It was released in 1982, and is based on the arcade game, Zaxxon. This system uses a "double panel" LCD screen, one to simulate the first section of the game (set in space) and another for one of the space stations. Aside from a similar perspective, handheld Zaxxon is very little like the arcade game - the player cannot move upwards or downwards, and many of the memorable scenery in the game (such as the brick walls and turrets) were omitted due to hardware restraints. In essance this turns Zaxxon into a fairly standard LCD shoot-'em-up game, where players move left and right shooting foes…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
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Quick answers
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When did Zaxxon come out?
Zaxxon was released on 31 December 1982 for Handheld Electronic LCD.
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