Axis Assassin is a video game written by John Field for the Apple II and published by Electronic Arts in 1983.

Along with M.U.L.E., Hard Hat Mack, Archon: The Light and the Dark, and Worms?, Axis Assassin is one of the five initial games from Electronic Arts.

[3] Programmer John Field is included in the two-page "We See Farther" magazine ad from 1983 that positioned EA's game developers as "rock stars.

[1] John Field wrote the first version of Axis Assassin in two weeks while on vacation in Wisconsin, then worked on improving it for an additional seven months.

"[6] Katz and cohort Bill Kunkel also discussed the game in the "Arcade Alley" column of Video, stating, "Axis Assassin...has only one discernable problem: its name.