{"id":16108,"date":"2017-04-04T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=16108"},"modified":"2017-04-21T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:31:29","slug":"zaxxon-3d-sega-master-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/04\/zaxxon-3d-sega-master-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaxxon 3D (Sega Master System)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158962399035\/thesegasource-cover-for-zaxxon-3d-on-the-sega\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tumblr_ok4l1hXmFB1resubdo1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cover for Zaxxon 3D on the SEGA Master System.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158962399035\/thesegasource-cover-for-zaxxon-3d-on-the-sega\">http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158962399035\/thesegasource-cover-for-zaxxon-3d-on-the-sega<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although it was forward scrolling as opposed to isometric like its arcade counterpart, Zaxxon 3-D did have the unique attribute of being in 3-D.<\/p>\n<p>Zaxxon 3-D made use of the &#8220;SegaScope&#8221; 3-D glasses for the Sega Master System with your view being from behind your ship. While not required to play (the game could be played in 2-D mode), it did add playability to the game. It was much more difficult to gage distances without being in 3-D mode. The 3-D version added much more sense of depth.<\/p>\n<p>Only six 3-D games were released for the SMS with Zaxxon being one of the earlier titles. The SMS was the first home consoles to provide 3-D gaming and while pretty crude by today&#8217;s standards it still worked rather well. Most of the few games released that made use of the SegaScope 3-D glasses made effective use of the 3-D effect. Unfortunately, the glasses are pretty hard to come by and will only work with the original model SMS (not the SMS II).<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/files\/js\/min\/jquery-1.6.2-min.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/files\/js\/min\/ebay_activeContent-min.js'><\/script><br \/>\n<script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\ndocument.write('\\x3Cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/adn.ebay.com\/cb?programId=1&campId=5337952703&toolId=10026&keyword=Zaxxon+3-D&width=336&height=280&font=1&textColor=000000&linkColor=0000AA&arrowColor=8BBC01&color1=709AEE&color2=[COLORTWO]&format=ImageLink&contentType=TEXT_AND_IMAGE&enableSearch=y&usePopularSearches=n&freeShipping=n&topRatedSeller=n&itemsWithPayPal=n&descriptionSearch=n&showKwCatLink=n&excludeCatId=&excludeKeyword=&catId=&disWithin=200&ctx=n&autoscroll=n&title=Zaxxon+3-D&flashEnabled=' + isFlashEnabled + '&pageTitle=' + _epn__pageTitle + '&cachebuster=' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000000 )) + '\">\\x3C\/script>' );\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover for Zaxxon 3D on the SEGA Master System. http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/158962399035\/thesegasource-cover-for-zaxxon-3d-on-the-sega Although it was forward scrolling as opposed to isometric like its arcade counterpart, Zaxxon 3-D did have the unique attribute of being in 3-D. Zaxxon 3-D made use of the &#8220;SegaScope&#8221; 3-D glasses for the Sega Master System with your view being from behind your ship. While not required to play (the game could be played in 2-D mode), it did add playability to the game. It was much more difficult to gage distances without being in 3-D mode. The 3-D version added much more sense of depth. Only six 3-D games were released for the SMS with Zaxxon being one of the earlier titles. The SMS was the first home consoles to provide 3-D gaming and while pretty crude by today&#8217;s standards it still worked rather well. Most of the few games released that made use of the SegaScope 3-D glasses made effective use of the 3-D effect. Unfortunately, the glasses are pretty hard to come by and will only work with the original model SMS (not the SMS II).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[1518,1523,1567,2551],"class_list":["post-16108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-games","category-sega-master-system","tag-sega","tag-sega-master-system","tag-sms","tag-zaxxon-3-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}