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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.

