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 ...

I will admit that I wasn’t around in 1982 and given that information, you will allow me to be somewhat ignorant on what the hit games of the day were. From what I hear, Zaxxon was pretty popular in ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

I am what you may call a “90’s Kid” at least I was born in 90’s, so given that I have no information about what games were hit and hip during the 80’s but from what I’ve gathered, there were some ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...