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 ...

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 ...

This one I totally could not resist. Aside from Spy Hunter, Zaxxon has to be one of my all-time favorite games. I remember playing this for hours on my old DOS PC back in the day. The simple premise ...

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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 ...

This week's Virtual Console release is Sega's Zaxxon for the VC Arcade, an isometric viewpoint shmup from the early '80s. There's nothing flashy or particularly complex about Zaxxon, other than the ...

All titles will be available in their respective stores today from 9am PST. Further details and descriptions direct from Nintendo follow below. Description: Move to the West Coast and immerse yourself ...

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 ...

In 1982, Zaxxon invaded arcades -- 30 years later, it's time to escape! Zaxxon Escape is SEGA's continuation of the arcade classic! SEGA reboots its classic isometric arcade shooter as a full 3D ...

For kids in the late 1970s and early 1980s, no trip to the mall was complete without hitting Space Port, the ubiquitous video arcade that dotted the fruited plain in those days. Space Port, like the ...

Are you a gamer? Do you like free things? Of course you do! We here at the Tech Deck are just like you: poor gamers looking for cheap entertainment. And nothing's cheaper than cost-free gaming. Each ...