Otto Jansen fondly remembers Zaxxon and his biggest critique

Otto Jansen
    I can play the eighties classic arcade game Zaxxon for hours. Zaxxon was the first arcade game that had incredible 3d graphics that was a game changer and immediately became a hit. I still  play this game for hours at Galloping Ghost Arcade on Ogden Ave  in Brookfield. That is Brookfield Illinois and not that ugly sprawl suburb of Milwaukee. It had incredible controls where you c trolled a helicopter-type stick for the basic jet fighter in the game that you were suppose to be inside. Some folks tired of the game quickly as the difficulty and concentration blame to much for adolescents to handle.
 The game required patience and a steady hand that only an expertise painter could master. The only thing I didn't I didn't like about the game was the absurdity of a civilization that washable to create a castle fortress in space would actually be at the whites of what appeared to be a simple jet fighter. Why would they also create a force field that the airplane could easily avoid and fly under. There were hundreds of questions I had at why a high tech civilization would have the power to create this defense but they leave so many dam loopholes. A jet fighter who could only shoot one radar blast at a time. Every time I played the game I thought about the ridiculousness of this and how their defenses wouldn't of been more powerful from alien civilization that could build this fortress in the galaxies. Aside from this fact Zaxxon still is truly one of the most incredible games that was created and today's top notch graphic games don't even come close to the entertainment value

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