- Event-Obscuring Camera: Due to Isometric Projection perspective, it's often frustrating to judge the height of your plane in relation to the terrain. There's an indicator on the side of the screen, but it's still difficult.
- Porting Disaster: Coleco's Intellivision port replaced the Isometric Projection with a top down view, removing what made the original unique in the first place. When they were released, Mattel claimed that these ports were deliberate sabotage on the part of Coleco.
- Decades later, fan-made clone Space Raid
showed that a far more accurate port is possible, not only on the Intellivision, but even on the Atari 2600.
- Decades later, fan-made clone Space Raid
- Sequel Difficulty Spike: Super Zaxxon took the gameplay of Zaxxon and upped its speed to the point of frustrating many players.
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