THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE 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. INLAY CARD TEXT 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.