Reviews

This game reminds me of titles like Raid Over Moscow , etc. It is in the same vein .

Fly over a war zone and get out alive ... not the first nor the last game with this plot .

Worth a try in spite of its unoriginality .

One of the first official arcade conversions for the Spectrum, Zaxxon is the classic diagonally-scrolling Sega coin-op game which was very popular at the beginning of the Eighties.

The Spectrum version is decent but does not stand out very much: graphics are sometimes unclear, scrolling is pretty jerky and gameplay does not feel very slick. Still, it's not bad, but could have been done much better, even for 1984 standards.

Professional David J. Anderson tries his best to reproduce Zaxxon, flickering and limping slowly.
Overall, it's not horrible to watch and there's sufficient playabilty.

I was pretty disappointed with this. Its slow and jerky gameplay made this quite difficult and while there's some nice use of colour I didn't really like the graphics in this. I hoped to be the one to break the trend and not give this a 3 like the others have and in a way I've achieved that, but not the way I'd like to have done it.

It looks like Zaxxon but it sure doesn't play anything like it. It's jerky, slow and doing anything on it is almost impossible as a result. I fully expected this from a clone but not from the official game. Awful!