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	Zaxxon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the time of its release, Zaxxon was unique as it was the first game to employ isometric projection, something of a three-quarters viewing perspective.
		A popular game, Zaxxon was ported to almost all home computer and video game console systems between 1982 and 1985.
		It is similar to Zaxxon, but it is the first (and last) Zaxxon game to use full 3D graphics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zaxxon (279 words)

	Cafeman's tribute to Zaxxon
		Zaxxon, released in 1982 by Sega/Gremlin (with a sequel Super Zaxxon released the next year), is a unique shooting game -- it simulates 3D by using an isometric three-quarters perspective.
		Zaxxon has a fixed scroll speed, so you have to be alert for barriers, flying above & below them, yet still shooting enough fuel tanks, radar dishes, and rockets as necessary.
		Super Zaxxon featured far faster scrolling than the original, and as a result the game was just too difficult and not as much fun.
	cafeman.www9.50megs.com /zaxxon.html (793 words)

	MAWS - showing resource: zaxxon
		Most Zaxxon boards the capacitors are all dried up so a lot of the sound disappear.
		In the game, Zaxxon is the name of the enemy robot who you must destroy.
		The VFD is basically split in two, the upper half you see as the lower part of the playing field, while the lower part of the VFD is reflected on a semi-transparent mirror to create the upper half of the 3-D playing space..
	www.mameworld.net /maws/romset/zaxxon (1450 words)

	The Atari Times - 2600 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zaxxon, however, completely fails to simulate the "faux" three-dimensional shooter I played in arcades in the early 1980s, but it's also a truly miserable game that shouldn't have been released.
		Indeed, the game was quite novel when it came out, and was a bit of side-scroller in which the player could control the horizontal and vertical flight of his space craft while attacking enemy ships and the like.
		On the Zaxxon arcade machine, the playfield scrolled horizontally and at an angle, and the scheme "tricked" the player into thinking in three- dimensions.
	www.ataritimes.com /2600/reviews/zaxxon.html (686 words)

	Coin-Op Museum: Zaxxon
		Zaxxon (the robot) can be destroyed with six well placed shots on his missile before he launches it.
		On dedicated machines the crude Zaxxon logo may be mildly burnt into the screen as well as the score info and the Sega 1982 in the bottom right corner.
		In the game, Zaxxon is the name of the enemy robot who you must destroy.Milton Bradley turned this and other Sega titles into board games.
	www.klov.com /game_detail.php?letter=Z&game_id=12757 (1151 words)

	Phosphor-Dot Fossils: Zaxxon
		Bearing in mind that Zaxxon was the first game to feature this kind of movement, its experimental nature and great graphics occasionally got in the way of the player's attempt to ascertain exactly where he was in the playing field.
		Zaxxon inspired the spinoff - actually it was more of a conversion kit - Super Zaxxon, which seemed to add little to the play of the game but mainly offered changes to the graphics set - including the incomprehensible transformation of Zaxxon itself from a fearsome robot to an animè-like dragon character.
		Zaxxon was later adapted much more faithfully on home computer systems such as the Apple II.
	www.thelogbook.com /phosphor/zaxxon.html (421 words)

	Zaxxon - AtariAge Forums
		From: Los Angeles, CA The reason I think the Activision catalog was the best for the 2600 was that they didn't try to just port arcade games (although several of their games are veiled ports of obscure coin-op titles from the mid 70s).
		But since the Zaxxon arcade game did it, the 2600 port was going to either have to make it happen by some miracle, or just go with vertical scrolling, which is why they went with the latter.
		A Side scrolling zaxxon could be done, but it would be even harder to judge your height, but it be more true to the arcade.
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=5054 (985 words)

	Zaxxon, Fighter Extraordinaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zaxxon is a noble fighter of humble birth.
		Raistlin fell in battle, and with his last strength, bequeathed Zaxxon with a Book of Fitzan Dantalas, saying: "You will guard this in life and beyond." Raistlin died, and at that moment, another wave of trolls attacked Zaxxon, who also fell in battle after a mighty fight.
		Zaxxon's alignment is Lawful Good, so he retains some form of himself while in Death Knight form.
	www.winternet.com /~davion/dnd.html (257 words)

	Zaxxon 3-D
		ZAXXON takes you through 9 rounds of deep space battle.
		You will lose one ZAXXON ship if you run out of fuel, are hit by an enemy shot or missiles, or if you hit an enemy protective wall or magnetic barrier.
		Since everything you see is in three dimensions, you will not be able to shoot at enemies in a straight line as you would in a two-dimensional game.
	www.hostultra.com /~watler/master/Zaxxon3d.htm (1038 words)

	A Small Victory: Comment on zaxxon and me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zaxxon was my favorite, not even a close second, arcade game.
		I was such a fanatical nerd that I used to improve on the crude artwork he did for the game (you know saying "it doesn't look like that") until I realized that he was purposefully doing a poor job, knowing that I would fix it up for him.
		Zaxxon was the first video game that made me dream about it.
	asmallvictory.net /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=5435 (418 words)

	Zaxxon Retro-Remake Homepage
		Zaxxon was a classic game from 1982 that was unusual as an isometric shoot-em-up.
		Zaxxxon Retro Remake is written in C with the Allegro game library, anyone interested in writing games and has a little C experience should have a look at http://www.allegro.cc which is home to the Allegro community and http://alleg.sourceforge.net/ which is the Allegro homepage
		Another area of development are the graphics which I want to improve, I'll do this in time but I hope to put all of the sprites and backgrounds into a download incase any kind soul wants to have a little look at improving them.
	www.pankhurst.uklinux.net /zaxxon.html (350 words)

	The Armchair Empire - Classic Gaming: Zaxxon (Colecovision)
		Zaxxon has appeared on just about every gaming platform in existence.
		In Zaxxon, you take control of little jet fighter that can spew endless amounts of green lasers, blasting alien invaders, other fighters, and fuel tanks while avoiding homing missiles, flying over walls, and ducking under force fields.
		While it doesn’t hold a candle to today’s games, Zaxxon still influences gaming today, even if developers don’t realize it.
	www.armchairempire.com /classic_gaming/zaxxon.htm (434 words)

	Zaxxon - MobyGames
		The Zaxxon defence system must be destroyed in this isometric-viewed shoot 'em up which was originally hugely successful in the arcades.
		Complete this and you reach the final battle with Zaxxon, with the game looping with increased difficulty if you can survive the first time.
		There are 3 distinct skill levels, while controls involve using forward to dive and back to climb, in the manner of flight simulation.
	www.mobygames.com /game/zaxxon (226 words)

	Super Zaxxon Walkthrough - IGN FAQs
		The unique nature of the game featuring its three-quarter perspective was one of the first (if not the first) games to add depth and some feeling of perspective to a space game.
		Although Super Zaxxon didn't do as well as its predecessor, it still created a respectable niche as far as arcade games went.
		Adjust your fire so that you are hitting the area where the mouth of the Super Zaxxon is. - You need to get six shots into his mouth before he throws a fireball at your fighter.
	faqs.ign.com /articles/452/452115p1.html (2829 words)

	Zaxxon \| Beatfreax - Electronic Music Platform
		Zaxxon is resident en mede organisator van Spektrum in club Mezz (Breda).
		Zaxxon draait electro in de volle breedte: van electropop naar electrotechno en van oldschool naar getto tech.
		Onlangs stond DJ Zaxxon nog op Transistor in 013 samen met namen als Steve Rachmad, Robert Hood en Scan 7 en draaide daar een succesvolle set in de kleine zaal.
	www.beatfreax.nl /index.php?s=c6f19cea95&bid=50 (251 words)

	5200 Zaxxon-I kinda like it! - AtariAge Forums
		Super Zaxxon on the Atari 8bit computers reminds me of CV Zaxxon -- it's got all the aspects of the game but with small average-looking objects and shoddy scrolling.
		Missiles rise from the ground, the Zaxxon robot is far more challenging and looks just like he did in the arcade version, and you get altimeter control in the space section.
		Second, as to the arcade version of Zaxxon...Tempest, the boss in Zaxxon (the Robot) was HARD to beat in the arcade version.
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=27935 (1402 words)

	Sega Zaxxon : Coin-Op : Arcade : ggdb.com
		Sega Zaxxon : Coin-Op : Arcade : ggdb.com
		One of the earliest three-dimensional shooting games, Zaxxon used a three-quarters perspective to simulate a 3-D game.
		The examples shown here show the actual dimensional weight for the game, and then given an estimated shipping dimensional weight assuming that 5" of packing material is needed in each dimension.
	www.ggdb.com /GameByName.aspx?c=&s=&vid=3498 (193 words)

	Coinop.org /// Zaxxon (1982)
		Future Spy belongs to the small Zaxxon family of boards (Zaxxon, Super Zaxxon, and Future Spy) that all run off of the same hardware.
		Although Super Zaxxon requires a small extra soundboard, Future Spy _appears_ to be nothing more than a straight ROM swap away from an original Zaxxon board.
		Zaxxon Sega/Gremlin, 1982 Other boards with the same pinouts (with the exception of some control inputs) Congo Bongo Future Spy Super Zaxxon The original posting of this pinout had the parts side and solder side reversed.
	coinop.org /g.aspx/100215/Zaxxon.html (1303 words)

	Zaxxon Retro-Remake Readme
		I'd never written a game before (ever) and the 2003 Retro Remakes competition made me think of writing a retro game, there are many Pacman and Asteroid clones so I was surprised that no-one had tried to remake Zaxxon.
		Zaxxxon Retro Remake is written in C with the Allegro game library, anyone interested in writing games and has some C experience should have a look at http://www.allegro.cc which is home to the Allegro community and http://alleg.sourceforge.net/ which is the Allegro homepage
		The Regulate options should really only change the 'smoothness' of scrolling and should be the same on most modern computers, if you find that these actually change the game speed then I'd like to know about it.
	www.pankhurst.uklinux.net /readme.html (1039 words)

	Bandai Zaxxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It appears that this game is supposed to be light blue like the bottom picture, but it's fairly common to find it faded (which makes it appear grey like the top picture).
		The VFD is basically split in two, the upper half you see as the lower part of the playing field, while the lower part of the VFD is reflected on a semi-transparent mirro to create the upper half of the 3-D playing space.
		The only that seems to missing is the actualy Zaxxon boss at the end...
	users2.ev1.net /~rik1138/Bandai/Zaxxon.htm (210 words)

	Super Zaxxon Record Smashed. PC Gameworld news story.
		Released by Sega in 1982 as a sequel to the mega-hit title "Zaxxon", this title was much faster and harder than the original by far.
		Section 4 is where the player must defeat the "Super Zaxxon dragon", a harder version of the classic "Zaxxon" boss, faster moving to say the least.
		His strategy incorporates a balance between point acumulation and safety, which in a game like "Super Zaxxon" is quite possibly the best strategy of all to employ.
	www.pcgameworld.com /news/story.php/id/1121 (1155 words)

	Zaxxon by Zirok for the Atari 2600.
		Shoot lots of stuff and avoid running into anything and you can try to defeat the robot Zaxxon at the end.
		You only have a limited time to hit Zaxxon in his weak spot several times before he launches a missile at you that can not be avoided.
		Although the arcade game was a whole lot of fun, because of the primitive graphics in this version, it is difficult to figure out where you are relative to everything else in the vertical direction, so it can be frustrating to play.
	www.atariguide.com /8/835.php (208 words)

	Phosphor Dot Fossils \| Super Zaxxon
		Whereas the boss waiting for you in Zaxxon's fortress was a big robot, this one's an animè-cute dragon - and it'll still kick your ass if you don't blow it up first.
		Originally sold as a conversion kit so arcade operators could freshen up their year-old Zaxxon machines, Super Zaxxon really did nothing more than swap out the graphics set and increased the speed of the game phenomenally.
		It survives thanks to MAME - but if Sega would ever wake up and realize that Zaxxon is still a viable property that could be exploited even more effectively on modern-day consoles and PCs...well, I don't even think I need to finish that sentence.
	www.thelogbook.com /phosphor/fall01/z.htm (238 words)

	Arcade History Database© (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the release of Zaxxon, Sega realized it had a hit on its hands.
		Differences Between Super Zaxxon and "Zaxxon" : Although both games look the roughly the same in design, this is where the similarities end.
		This arcade video games database may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage now known or hereafter invented without express written permission.
	www.arcade-history.com /history_database.php?page=detail&id=2788 (1483 words)

	Zaxxon, Super Zaxxon, Future Spy - Flip Screen Hack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Super Zaxxon and Future Spy conversions from standard Zaxxon boardsets, so the flip screen hack is the same for all of them.]
		On the top board (CPU) board, chip U55 74259 pin 11 is an output that drives the flip screen signal.
		Note, this hack will force the screen always to be flipped, so if you operate the board in cocktail mode it will not flip back for player 2.
	www.brasington.org /arcade/tech/flip/zaxxon.shtml (169 words)

	TNL Forum - Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000?
		It's more like viewpoint than Zaxxon, but its not as good as that either.
		And it definately isn't as good as Viewpoint or the original Zaxxon.
		Location: NY Zaxxon Motherbase is not all that bad.
	www.the-nextlevel.com /board/showthread.php?t=9053 (398 words)

	SMS- Zaxxon 3-D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comments: Zaxxon should NEVER be a forgotten classic (Unlike Pac-Man, Donkey Kong et.
		Zaxxon 3D delivers an excellent gaming and 3D effect experience.
		Graphics are basic but with the 3D glasses they explode in your face.
	alexkidd.com /show_game.php3?ID=162 (469 words)

	Zaxxon cheats, Zaxxon cheat codes PC
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		Useful hints: To kill the robot at the end of every second level, fly at 2 1/2 units (in other words, with two blocks of your altimeter filled in and one at halfway).
		Zaxxon cheats and cheat codes - Printable version -
	www.abby-cheat.com /html/Pc_cheats/Zaxxon_cheat.html (399 words)

	Zaxxon 2004 - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Zaxxon 2004 2.2 has been updated to Air Wars 2.4.
		In a moment, you will be redirected to the latest version of Zaxxon 2004.
		Please click here for Air Wars 2.4 if your browser does not automatically redirect you.
	www.download.com /Zaxxon-2004/3000-2099_4-10335996.html (75 words)

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