Zaxxon

It's the same

thing you have with games like Zaxxon.

Any isometric game is going to take a little bit of mental adjustment.

I personally, this time around, didn't find the difficulty to actually be as difficult as I thought it was going to be.

Now, I won't ask you what that first console was 'cause I, you may not wanna give away your age.

But for me, it's the memories of the Commodore 64 and games like Zaxxon and what's the other one? Like Beach Invasion or something like that.

Uh, do, is that familiar or, or are we different generations? I think we might be.

Q*Bert.

They like kind of just poking around.

You start noticing early 3D with things like Zaxxon.

You know, they got an isometric shooter out there as early as like 82, I believe.

But, you know, it's not until like you get to the mid 80s and, you know, you hear the name Yu Suzuki probably thrown around a few times.

And so there were not these new great coin-op hits to bring out in like 1983, 1984, because there were no new big hits coming out of the arcade.

Like Donkey Kong in late 81 and Zaxxon and Robotron in early 1982 were kind of the last of them.

You know, there were some good games after that.

But I mean, like in terms of just raw success.

And it's the first appearance of the character that goes on to be, I think, the only mainstay other than Jason Voorhees himself, who's Tommy Jarvis, in the form of a very young Corey Feldman being as Corey Feldman as humanly possible in this movie, playing his usual character.

He's a kid where the first time we see him, he's wearing a monster mask playing Zaxxon, okay? Being Corey Feldman.

know it would be almost like the the beginning of goonies uh and except this one he wears his glasses um in this one they believe that jason vorhees has been killed uh at the by the events of number three and maybe he was i mean they they took his i would imagine that they took his pulse and all that sort of thing maybe he was killed i'm not sure but this one starts off in the morgue and uh and jason um It comes to life in the morgue and makes his way back to Camp Crystal Lake.

Yeah, see, in my mind, that could be their intention.

And I made that by starting with a sound that, in addition to the chips, they also have particular sounds that probably were sampled out of video games.

So one of them is Zaxxon, and it has this sound in it.

So I took that clip and I stretched it out.

I used a tool called Extreme Audio Stretch.