Zaxxon

January 1, 1982

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Zaxxon

Platforms

Apple II Arcade Atari 5200 Atari 8-bit ColecoVision Commodore C64/128/MAX DOS MSX SG-1000 TRS-80 TRS-80 Color Computer Wii ZX Spectrum

Companies

Cogito Software Company Coleco Datasoft, Inc. Ikegami Tsushinki Pony Canyon Sega Enterprises, Inc. Sega Enterprises, Ltd. Sega/Gremlin Tandy

Genres

Arcade Shooter

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Zaxxon received a 30-second commercial produced by Paramount Pictures (who owned developer Sega at the time) in 1982 for $150,000. It is believed to be the first arcade video game advertised on television.

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Star-News (Wilmington Morning Star; July 3, 1982) (page 12 in the newspaper):
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OwEzAAAAIBAJ&pg=5470,748067

Zaxxon commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3NUO2GFGAI

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The Ikegami Tsushinki Co. logo can be seen alongside the title graphics and copyright information in the games files, but is never used even though both the hardware and the programming were done by ITC.

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person ProtoSnake calendar_month August 28, 2015

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