Classic arcade games zaxxon

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Ikegami refers to Ikegami Tsushinki Co. Ikegami believed their contracts gave them the exclusive right to manufacture the circuit boards for games like Donkey Kong and its predecessor Radar Scope.

Zaxxon is an arcade classic. This allowed it to be the first shooter to truly have three dimensions, as you can move your ship up and down on the z-axis, back and forth on the x-axis, and your ship constantly moves forwards over an elaborate landscape. The above screenshot is from the MAME emulator, rather than being from actual hardware.

This allows us to see all the tiles rendered, and we can see two interesting ones. This is generally believed to be the logo of I kegami T sushinki C o. This gets funnier when we look at a game that used the upgraded version of the Zaxxon arcade hardware; Congo Bongo.

Congo Bongo is essentially an isometric version of Donkey Kong , complete with the ape who serves as your goal. After all, it too has the Ikegami Tsushinki logo hidden in its tiles. While my board is a Future Spy today, it was a Zaxxon board originally.

In fact, the EPROMs on the circuitboard mostly bear stickers that, while crossed out, still show that the very same ROMs served this in its days of playing Zaxxon , just rewritten for the new job. As usual, this sort of conversion is baffling in , when Zaxxon is a true classic and Future Spy a completely forgotten title without even a Wikipedia article to its name.