Please login to submit a screenshot

Zaxxon is a classical space-arcade shooter with an isometric perspective, in which you control a space fighter. You need to fly through a strongly secured hostile asteroid town and destroy fuel tanks, gun emplacements, rockets and defence fighters there. With the help of an altitude indicator you need to find your way through narrow wall openings, deadly energy barriers and missile fire. After successfully flying through the asteroid town you get into free space where you need to destroy hostil space fighters. If you survive this, you fly into another asteroid town where the last fight against the treacherous robot, ZAXXON, will take place.

If you take this hurdle, too, the game will be continued in the first asteroid town with a higher difficulty grade.

Hints

Energy barriers
In the first levels of the game you need to fly over walls and over and below enery barriers. In the further course of the game the walls get more compact and there are only small openings to fly through. These openings are then also protected by energy barriers, so that your task gets very hard. Fire your laser at the energy barriers to determine your position in relation to the openings.
The asteroid towns

Asteroid town
At the beginning of your mission you get into the first asteroid town. Here you should destroy as many hostile space fighters as possible. The more you shoot the less space fighters you will encounter in free space. Here you should also destroy the fuel tanks to raise your fuel supply. And finally you should also shoot as many radar towers, gun emplacements and missiles as possible to raise your score.

Free space
After crossing the asteroid town you get into free space. Here you will encounter hostile space fighters and satellites. The size of the space fighters indicates their flying height. The smaller they are the lower they fly. The number of sace fighters to be destroyed is shown in the lower right corner of the screen (EP). If you destroy all hostile soace fighters, you will get a bonus of 1.000 points.

The end fight
If you survive the fight in open space you get into another asteroid town. This is the fortress of the deadly robot ZAXXON. To destroy Zaxxon it needs three hits on his missile launcher.