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Synopsis

The goal of the game is to guide the plane through the defense lines set up by “Zaxxon”, in order to reach it and be able to shoot it down.

Zaxxon is an arcade shoot'em up released by Sega. It is named after its revolutionary use of axonometric projection (although more specifically it uses isometric projection) and was released on arcade hardware in 1982.

Zaxxon was the first video game to use an isometric perspective, a graphical style that would be widely used in the years that followed. It was an early attempt to add three-dimensional depth to the shoot 'em up genre. The term "isometric perspective" was originally coined by Sega in reference to Zaxxon.

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