Does Zaxxon Really Suck?

I played it on the 2600 last night. Yes it sucks.

...but it was more fun than the arcade.

It's suckier and more fun at the same time.
???
Weird.


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I will always love Zaxxon..I dont own one BUT for xmas 1983 I got a Colecovision and got the Zaxxon cart and my dad and I played it constantly. My dad loved that game...he would put old school headphones on connected to the tv to give him the feeling of being in a fighter jet..he dug the sounds. One time I was playing and was going for 1,000,000 points and in the interim my dad ordered a pizza and when it got delivered the pizza guy was even standing there for a few minutes watching me play. My dad would feed me pieces of pizza so I wouldnt have to take hands off controls in my fight to get a million points (which I did). Its a funny, great memory. He passed in 2019 and I was hoping id land a Zaxxon since i was in the hobby and if i did i was going to give it to him because he never played the actual arcade before, only the colecovision version. He would have gotten a kickout of it. I would have put it in his garage. I also wanted to get him an Area 51 also because he was hard core into the alien conspiracy thing and loved guns in his later years. I never found one of those either dang it.
 
I actually discovered that Zaxxxon isn't half bad... IF you use a Wico joystick or some other semi-decent quality stick. That flight stick that is on the obelisk that Sega attempted to pass off as an arcade cabinet is just... HORRID. Even "rebuilt"... it sucks. Bad. IMHO of course.
 
Smart Bomb said:
I will always love Zaxxon..I dont own one BUT for xmas 1983 I got a Colecovision and got the Zaxxon cart and my dad and I played it constantly. My dad loved that game...he would put old school headphones on connected to the tv to give him the feeling of being in a fighter jet..he dug the sounds. One time I was playing and was going for 1,000,000 points and in the interim my dad ordered a pizza and when it got delivered the pizza guy was even standing there for a few minutes watching me play. My dad would feed me pieces of pizza so I wouldnt have to take hands off controls in my fight to get a million points (which I did). Its a funny, great memory. He passed in 2019 and I was hoping id land a Zaxxon since i was in the hobby and if i did i was going to give it to him because he never played the actual arcade before, only the colecovision version. He would have gotten a kickout of it. I would have put it in his garage. I also wanted to get him an Area 51 also because he was hard core into the alien conspiracy thing and loved guns in his later years. I never found one of those either dang it.
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ZAXXON still sucks. Your memories do not. That is all that matters.
 
I love ZAXXON those who hate it are probably playing it with a sucky old unresponsive stick. Or they just suck at video games! Zaxxon is a great game. Watch the altitude indicator!
It has a place of honor is my home arcade. Zaxxon hate is just misplaced rage from people who's parents did not love them enough!
 

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Nostalgia - I played Zaxxon when I first got to Miami back in 1987 at a mall that used to exist at Coral Way and 87th Ave (I think). I lost a few quarters in it. It was hard but I still thought it was ok.

Isometric views are awesome, especially at the time - remember Escher was a huge fad at the time. It can work, note Marble Madness is isometric as well and there's a lot of fans of it.

Present - We got a Zaxxon for a friend of ours as a housewarming present (he wanted it, really). We played it a bit while it was at the office. It is hard, but not because it's challenging, it's hard cause of the interface. I do think the flightstick is heavy, the concept is cool but I can see why people don't like it. It has since been at his home garage, and I think he mentioned that the audio cut out so that section needs a rebuild.
 
I personally love my Zaxxon cocktail. Never played it with the flight stick on the stand up cabs.

I'm pretty decent at it these days. That flight level meter is definitely useful in navigating all the laser gates.

Gotta say, the Zaxxon board game is a million times more fun.
 
I don't get the hatred for Zaxxon. I think the part that sucks is the person at the controls. ;)
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