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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We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. I will admit that I wasn’t around in 1982 and given that information, you will allow me to be somewhat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Later this year, Sega will release a sequel to 1982 arcade classic Zaxxon for iOS and Android, offering an all-new perspective on the space shooter. Zaxxon Escape trades the original game's isometric ...

Believe it or not, more than 25 years have passed since the original release of Zaxxon and another 20 since I first played its CGA PC version on a then impressive IBM AT. Zaxxon was (quite shockingly, ...

Each week, Digital Spy rounds up the biggest mobile gaming releases with reviews and trailers. This week brings players a classic arcade reboot, a microbial trip through a dolphin, the latest mobile ...

After 30 years (and a mountain of quarters), SEGA has unleashed the next chapter of the hit classic Zaxxon. Now that you’ve defeated the evil Zaxxon, it’s time to shoot and tilt your way past Zaxxon’s ...

I'm a twenty-seven year old video game design student from Sunset Park, Brooklyn. If I'm not working or doing schoolwork, I can typically be found on Xbox Live under the name "Red Ring Ryko". I am ...

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, ...

For the unenlightened, "isometric" can be defined as a form of graphical projection - more specifically, an axonometric projection. It's a method of visually representing three-dimensional objects in ...