there was always something strangely awesome about this game.

I loved this game as kid. Spending a lot of time alone it kept my Saturday afternoons full. Great memory of surviving childhood. Thanks Sega

That eerie feeling when the rooms changed from light blue to red and then red to dark blue. You knew there was no turning back..

This is one of my favorite Master System games, especially because it is a game based on an animation I'd seen a lot during my childhood.

I’ll never forget beating this game as a kid. It was just a great way to spend a rainy day at home while surviving and enjoying middle school.

This is to date one of the best games ever imho. One week ago I gave myself a retro night and played it through once again with everything unlocked. I was so damn happy. Great game really!

I remember staying up all night to get through this game (I didn't have any cheat codes) and come morning I had to go do my paper route. I left and returned home to find my brother watching cartoons. _you left your game on, so I shut it off to watch the Smurfs_ _so I shut it off to watch the Smurfs_ *_the Smurfs_* _fml_

Countless pages of spiraled notebook paper were sacrificed for this game. One of my all-time favorites. Thanks for the upload!

This was my favorite game when it came out on the Master System. I still remember when I was a kid. my dad took me to Toys r Us for my bday. I went in ready to buy an NES and walked out with a Sega Master System instead.

One of my all time favorites. Never tired of it. Liked how it got progressively harder but not too difficult

This is, without a doubt, the greatest theme song ever!

nostalgia 1000000%. i remember i used to watch my big brother play this all through the night. he made the map and everything. we still have the original cartridge and everything. my #1 all time nostalgia game. brings back so many fond memories.

Playing this game at 8 years old wad pretty immersive and scary. My dad use to write the codes done for me until I was able to remember them good times Oh yea the music is amazing

Played the hell outta this game as a kid. Never finished it though, but it was still alot of fun. For a Master System game, it was a lot longer and more complex then you'd expect. Easily one of the best games of it's day.

I loved this game so much, I still have the original cart my dad bought. We used to stay up all night playing this, he even made me a bunch of cards with the pictures on them so I could put the ones I needed down for the correct passwords since I was too young to remember them properly. Only beat this game once.

this to me was the best game ever made...period...everything about this game was amazing. the gameplay is still so much fun you can play it today

Sega's answer to Metroid. I liked this better back then because the sounds and graphics were way better than what any NES came could produce back then.

I was a kid living in Mexico City back in the 80s we finish this game with my brothers and it was one of the best feeling of our entire childhood

This was always my favorite game to play every Sunday morning..started out with my dad then it was just me going from level to level. I've got my daughter now and I still have my working good old Saga Master Control all my cartridges to share my nostalgia of playing my now vintage but still cool games 😃! Rock on!

when I was like in 8th or 7th grade. At school we had a couple of hours free, teachers were absent. So we went to a friends house to play Zillion. We had to get back to school, so he left the game in pause. Then when he got home finished the game, like at 7 pm, or something like that. That game was amazing!

After more than 3 decades; this game music still drown me in nostalgic 😔

One of the best games on master system. Still remember the first time i beat it like 30 years ago.

"The Zillion project was conceived by SEGA's toy division, SEGA Toys. They sold a toy gun called Zillion, so I guess that's where it all started. I believe the gun uses infrared light to function. When you successfully hit your opponent's target area, the gun reacts. That's how the toy worked. In order to promote sales of this product, they commissioned an animated TV series, in which the characters used this gun. They also wanted a game to help promote it as well. So the idea was the toy, anime, and game would form an all-encompassing franchise. "The anime featured three main characters, and all we had to work with was the graphics of these characters and some background art - and that was it! We knew that the characters used laser guns to shoot their enemies. Apart from that, we had to make everything up from scratch. We had no idea what the plot was going to be. "Some compare Zillion to Metroid on NES, but we didn't think about Metroid at all; Metroid definitely did not influence the development of Zillion. I was the planner on Zillion, and it was actually somewhat inspired by Impossible Mission. It sure was - we were definitely inspired by that game. I played lots of games back then. Although I wouldn't exactly have called myself an Impossible Mission fan, it's just one of many games which I happened to enjoy." -- Kotaro Hayashida (planner - Zillion/Akai Koudan Zillion - Sega)

I remember the sheer panic when facing that final boss then trying to get out in time.

I was one of the rare US kids that grew uo with a SMS instead of an NES. Zillion will always be my favorite game. Before we owned it, we must have rented it from a local video game store 5 times. I have auch fond memories of this game. The music and sfx will be forever burned into my memory.

I just hooked up a master system (one of the first 1987 made in japan units) and this is the first game I'm going to finish on it. The soundtrack and gameplay is really fascinating to me for some reason.

classic game... i had this game along with space harrier, spell caster, double dragon and a few others that i cant remember. memories of my childhood right here. im cheesin right now lol! thanx for the upload!

I would love to see this game now that the technology has caught up with the storyline. That goes for every game on the 1980s game consoles that were set in space or the future. Galaga 2020 anyone?

I LOVE THIS GAME!!!! Myself and my best friend used to take turns on who can beat this game faster.

Good times as a kid

this is my favorite sms game, and it gave lots of influences to my indie games.

Great memories, thanks for posting the video!

I remember my sister and i would take turns playing and helping remember the code.. the nicknames for the non-obvious symbols were; 'money', 'anvil', 'ladybug', 'butt', 'double-butt'... I remember aweing at the fact that the entire game was 1 big lvl, and was dissapointed with zillion2 because it was a totally different game... same with alex kidd the lost stars.. totally different than alex kidd in miracle world.. good times, good times..

This game is considered a Metroidvania-style game.

Great soundtrack to this classic, challenging memory action game on SMS. The sequel understandably, was not what I was hoping for after this great game.

The moment you turn the game on, J.J busts a cap in the player's face. Shit be gettin' fucking REAL DAWG. Jokes aside, awesome game. Brings back so many memories!

This is SUCH a blast to watch! Thank you!!!

I had this game when I was 8 as a kid 87 or 88… I’m 43 now and miss those days playing this game so much…

Holy crap man! This is 1988 all over again! I used to watch my bud play this game then. For some reason I was never a fan of complicated games like this, but I always loved platformers. Man, memories of us being cool owning the NES and the Master System at the same time back then.

Took me about a month and lots of time to beat this damm game when I was kid . I just recently ordered this on eBay to play again

This was one of the games I would play before I could read. That....probably explains why I couldn't get that far.

I took a piece of poster board...and drew out every single room with a bunch of fucking boxes so I could learn the maze....this game was fucking epic

Oh the memories. First game I ever beat when I was 8yr old.I still remember my name's I used to memorize the passcode's. M, Heart, Eight, Bridge, Cup, Spout, Pant's, Double Pin, Owl, Pin

Man I LOVED this game. My notebook was full of these symbols and I think I even drew a map of the levels. I was so disappointed Zillion 2.

Best game of my childhood. I used to play this deep into the night with my bro and my dad haha realy good times :)

I borrowed this game from a friend in the late 80s. I had no idea what it was, but he didnt like it for some reason and said i could KEEP it! I loved how the characters looked like Robotech characters in the book art and cutscenes. I was hooked! As the rooms became more difficult, i kept a notepad to jot down the codes. When I found Apple in her cryo cell, I was awed. It seemed like I discovered Han Solo and freed him from the carbonite. I still remember every nuance of the musical score to this day. The final boss was so strange to see after fighting bots and blowing up pods for hours. I freaked out and thought it was some sort of game glitch! LOL Awesome game. Great memories!

Love the game and the Music :)

Oh bro. I remember. I thought I was the only one. I loved this game.

One of my favorites to play with friends.

This game got me into anime so hard!, and to this day I still enjoy watching all these older 80's styled animes!

holy i remember this game came out in north america console back in the late 80 is kid now i'm in my 30 and i still love this game

I remember my moms coming in my room thought I was right a letter to the devil had all these codes written down haaaa

One of the Best games ever played when I was a child, The ambience was surreal, love it. / Never knew why I was good on this game, I become an IT eng.

It is amazing how in 1987 they thought the medium of the future would be the floppy disk

I hope this game makes its way to the Switch. Id love to relive the memories I had playing this as a kid in the late eighties. Time flies.

wow...it takes me back thanks for the memories

I loved this game and always got lost in the confusing levels

One of the best to me. I did grow up watching Gatchaman from them.

You did a very good job and I am proud of you.

One of my favorite games I still remember playing it for hours and hours is one of my top 5 best games for the sms along with golvellius and a couple more games made my childhood

I still sing this song in my head frequently... :/

You and I did it "the hard way", only one setting of the MASTER DESTRUCT system and NO DISABLE and then go back to reset it. I ran through one in traditional "action movie style." It wasn't until later I learned that you could disable, re-enable, and the dragon wouldn't be there.

I loved this game when I was a kid. One of my favorite SMS games.

It's so hard to watch someone else play this game. I keep yelling "you're doing it wrong!" because I have used the same strategy since I first beat the game in 1990. :) Thanks for posting!

had this game when i was a kid, since im french i didint understood a single thing about this game, took about 3 years until a babysitter came and explained to me how the keywords worked!

playing this game helped me discover my first cheat code. enter a terminal with an enemy soldier between you and the terminal and enter the suicide code 0 0 0 0 . INVINSIBILITY

I thought i was the only one that played this game lol childhood memories

Man I love the color palette of the SMS. Surely i'm biased as it was my first console. But the colors are so warm compared to the NES.

I just saw my youngest son playing metroid dread on the Nintendo switch..I was going about my day but I saw him playing metroid I immediately said..that looks like Zillion! he asked "what's Zillion?" he was hooked...

Probably already mentioned, but if you look at the symbols, they're actually Numbers from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0 duplicated and facing each other in Zillion's computer entry cards.

I had the master system and I remember a game like this but it looked different.

this game was so good!!! and so tough!! just brought back so memories with this video!

I still play this once a year. classic

This is a great game!

hell yeah dude zillion was my favorite game it took me till I was an adult to be able to beat that I could get it as far as seeing champ but I couldn't get them when I was a kid

I only had Zillion 2 and didn't like it as a kid... thinking back, I think I'd probably appreciate it way more now.

I recently bought a sega master system. Now I'm going to have to buy this game. Looks like so much fun!!

Awesome game. One of my favorite Master System games.

Yeah. I love this game. Excellent midi versions of the musics from the anime.

Haven't seen this game in 10 years, easily. One of the first three video games I've ever played along with Hang-On and Safari Hunt on my mom's SMS. I mustve been 5 or 6 then, now I'm 21. Crazy memories. This game used to scare the bejesus out of me and I never made it past like 2 or 3 red rooms haha.

For me one of the best games on master system.

I loved this game, Metroid (Nes), & Impossible Mission (7800).

Very repetitive but I love the music that reminded me a lot of the greatest OG rpg that was Phantasy Star. Thx for the full game, now I know what I missed!

It was my favorite game when I was a kid lol

OMG...a classic from my childhood!

Very impressive for 1987.

I remember when this game came out and how hard it was. I was just a big maze and you didn';t know what to do or where to go. Oh and no internet to look up anything. I also remember the feeling when I beat the game.

Love this game, i remember writing the codes down, and making maps so i knew where i was going, too bad sega didnt make the sequel the same with the codes etc, but add the shooting sequences, and motorbike seguences. Hopefully a hacker will combine both games together oneday!

I remember renting this game several times. My mom would tell me to rent something else.

5 floppy disks? And input the command "explode" to make the base blowup? Great security! 🤣

One of my favorite games as a kid!

if you duck where that bread container is and shoot a few times, the doors open!

I can only imagine the joygasm a kid would have, playing this game on the Genesis not knowing anything about it but knowing there's more to the characters and setting, and then coming across the Streamline Pictures dub of the first 5 episodes later on.

I remember beating this a few times just going by memory as a kid (7-8); then finally just writting down the symbols to make it easier after a few wins.

All of that just to find out their heights, blood types and birthdays 😂

Would love a reboot of this.

I used to beat this game back to back. When I was a kid.

Yeah I kno after watching this I wouldn't have ever finished this game how you remember how to get back up to the ship at the end wow

Definitely an underrated game. I was able to memorize codes on the fly.

great game....i loved it....reminds me of Great Memories....thanks ❤