Zaxxon is a game that IGN encourages 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 they encourage you to actually buy. Save your Wii Points for a classic that's aged more gracefully than this one, and leave Zaxxon to keep on flying only in conversations of the past.
Presentation - 7.5
Graphics - 4.0
Sound - 6.0
Gameplay - 4.0
Lasting Appeal - 5.0
Overall -
Time of another episode of retro arcade game comparison to retro console ports. Today we will be looking at Sega's awesome achievement of a game Zaxxon with it's 3D look and isometric gameplay and this was made in 1983!
Nintendo Life writes: "In 1982 Sega made a little gaming history with Zaxxon: the first 3D arcade game to use an isometric perspective – even more shockingly, it used sprite-based graphics at a time when 3D games were pretty much all being done with vectors. Whilst Zaxxon got a lot of attention due to its flashy graphics and fancy analogue flight stick, even in 1982 it was arguably over-hyped. Aside from the analogue control in the upright cabinet making the game hard to control with precision, the isometric perspective tended to cause a lot of problems for players – though neither of these issues were enough to stop the game from being a big seller in the arcades."
