Growing up in Strongsville in the 1980s, my siblings and I were obsessed with video games. When we weren't begging our parents to take us to the arcades at Parmatown, Great Northern or Randall Park ...

Sega's "Zaxxon" (1982) was one of the first video games to feature shadows, and also the first video game for which a TV commercial was produced. Are you a gamer? Do you like free things? Of course ...

The SEGA 32X was a failure, but certainly not a boring failure. The mushroom-shaped power booster for the Genesis was a fascinating experiment and IGN Retro is going through its catalog one game at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...