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PHEENIX

PUBLISHER
MegaDodo Software

AUTHOR
M.W.Ward

YEAR
1983

CATEGORY
Arcade Shoot-em-up!

DESCRIPTION
Fly your ship to destroy the evil aliens and their mother ship.

CONTROLS
Keyboard, Kempston, AGF, Sinclair.

INSTRUCTIONS
You are the only hope against the attacking Space Pheenix, and
must travel to the alien mothership and destroy it to save the
Earth. Before you get there, there are numerous waves of bad guys
to be destroyed and an asteroid belt to be navigated through.
Finally arriving at the mothership, you must blast your way
through the defensive shield to kill the alien queen inside! Once
done, you progress to the next, more difficult mothership.

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CHEATS
Use the multiface to enter POKE 29375,0 for infinite lives.

SEQUELS/PREQUELS
None.

SCORES RECEIVED
Unknown, possibly not reviewed (released very early in the
Speccy's life).

URL
There are many snapshots of this around, but most of them are
Spanish or Polish version of the game. The true English version
is available (complete with MegaDodo graphic!), but is not
widespread. I think I got it from the address below, but try
searching for PHENIX.ZIP (i.e. not PHEENIX.ZIP).
ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/p/phenix.zip

GENERAL FACTS
As far as I know, this was the one and only release by MegaDodo
Software, which is a shame 'cos they had a brilliant name and
logo.

Pheenix is really a Speccy conversion of the ancient arcade
classic, Phoenix, and not a half bad one at that! It's not too
hard to complete the first few times through, but try doing it
once the dirt really starts to fly!

NOTES
Playable and fast, a pretty good arcade conversion once again.
The music, however, is absolutely awful.