Super Zaxxon

When you start the game, your fighter will be in the middle at the bottom of the screen. You will see an asteroid with a wall rising from it. You will then see an opening in the wall. This is how you will enter areas 1 and 3.

AREA 1 : This area is basically ground targets. You may have to increase altitude to get over the short barriers but this is basically a ground attack area.
a) The action starts immediately as soon as you go through the opening in the wall. Drop your altitude immediately to not only to avoid the Air-to-Air Missile, but to take out ground targets.
b) Fuel is a precious commodity. You must destroy the Fuel Tanks in order to increase the amount of fuel in your fighter. This won't be an easy matter, many of the Fuel Tanks are covered either by Gun Implacements, Ground-to-Air Missiles, or both.
c) When you are flying along the ground to destroy targets, watch out for the Gun Implacements and Missile Silos. Both will fire upon your fighter at every opportunity. The Missile Silos will usually launch Ground-to-Air missiles as soon as your fighter is over them. Gun Implacements only fire when you are at ground level.
d) As soon as you 'hop' over the short barriers, get down to ground level again to do more destruction. Try to hit the Radar Towers since they yield the biggest points at this point.
e) When you get to the airfields, try to destroy as many fighters as you can (you can destroy a maximum of five). The more fighters on the ground you destroy equates to that many less you have to encounter in area 2. This also means you have a better chance at the 2,000 point bonus.
f) Speaking of the airfields, watch out since there are many hidden Missile Silos within them. Keep moving around or you may be surprised by a Ground-to-Air Missile.
g) Do not fly at maximum altitude if you can help it. If you fly too long at maximum altitude, your fighter will be met head-on by an Air-to-Air missile which is very difficult to destroy (takes six shots).

AREA 2 : This is one of harder areas of the game. You will be entering a narrow tunnel where your maximum altitude is only one unit. In addition, there is very little maneuvering room.
a) You will be attacked by both enemy fighters and enemy mine layers.
b) Since there isn't much altitude within the tunnel itself, it should be easy to pick off enemy air units. The problem that arises, though, is the concentration of said air units.
c) Be very wary of the mine layers. They swing from side-to-side within the tunnel and have a bad habit of dropping a mine right in your flight path. Six shots destroy a mine but it is usually placed so quickly, you don't have a chance to shoot it.
d) Enemy air units only come at you from the front. They don't return from the back for more action.
e) The enemy fighters will usually make three to four passes at you before you are out of this area.

AREA 3 : This is the area that gives players the most trouble. Due to the small openings in the walls plus those openings being at different heights can really test a player's skill. In addition, you must still take out Fuel Tanks in order to keep flying.
a) In order to make sure that you will be able to pass through an opening, continue to fire your gun. If your laser fire doesn't go through, that means you have to quickly adjust either your altitude or left/right orientation.
b) The barriers are relatively close together which means you have to get through one and quickly adjust to where the next one is. Over a period of time, you will memorize where the openings in the barriers are and make your trip that much easier.
c) Many of the targets such as Fuel Tanks and Radar Towers are just on the other side of the walls. This means you have to drop and go left or right very quickly to have a chance of hitting them.
d) An added bonus of firing through the barriers (especially the ones at ground level) is that you can knock off the targets on the other side of said barrier making your life that much easier.
e) After the last barrier, you get to tangle with the Super Zaxxons. To defeat them every time :
1) Set your altitude to one and one-half units.
2) Go to the middle side of the screen.
3) When he starts to enter, start firing. Adjust your fire so that you are hitting the area where the mouth of the Super Zaxxon is.
4) You need to get six shots into his mouth before he throws a fireball at your fighter.
5) Once you have either destroyed, or forced the blue Super Zaxxon to retreat, you have to deal with the green Super Zaxxon.
6) Once you have either destroyed, or forced the green Super Zaxxon to retreat, you have to deal with the red Super Zaxxon.
7) After you have either destroyed, or forced the red Super Zaxxon to retreat, you go back to area 1 again.
8) As a reward for killing off the Super Zaxxons, you get 2,000 points apiece for them.

Once you complete Area 3, the cycle begins anew.