Zaxxon
Zaxxon is a 1982 isometric shooter arcade game developed and released by Sega. The game gives the player the experience of flying a fighter craft through a fortress while shooting at enemy entities (missiles…
Zaxxon is an arcade developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., released 1 January 1982 on Wii, SG-1000, Atari 5200 and ColecoVision.
What Zaxxon is
Zaxxon is an arcade game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in 1982. It was published by Cogito Software Company. It is available on Wii, SG-1000, Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, MSX, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Zaxxon is a 1981 scrolling shooter video game developed by Sega with assistance from Ikegami Tsushinki and published by Sega for Japanese and European arcades; it was distributed by Sega/Gremlin in North America. The player pilots a ship through two heavily defended space fortresses, and the outer space areas between them, to confront the Zaxxon robot at the end of the second fortress.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Zaxxon holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1982 averaged 66, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Zaxxon launched on 1 January 1982, within three weeks of Ms. Pac-Man, Gorf and Robotron: 2084. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: Ms. Pac-Man, Gorf, Robotron: 2084.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Zaxxon yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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