Phalanx

At last, the long-lost art of recognizing boss patterns shall enjoy a renaissance! This is about as old-school as old-school shooters get.

The original SNES version of Phalanx is probably remembered more for its weird banjo-themed box art than the fact that it was a really darn good shooter. This straight-up, so-old-school-it?s-new-again GBA port features bullets, enemies, and tons of crazy alien crap that whirl around against multilayered scrolling backgrounds, and (shockingly enough) you?ll have absolutely no trouble seeing any of it on the GBA?s tiny screen. The music is great, too?an absolute necessity when you?re talking the language of old-school 2D shooters.

But here?s the catch: Phalanx is really really really hard. There are no continues and no in-game saves, a turn-off to anyone without the time to memorize boss patterns and an effective way to kill the point of that whole ?portable? thang.

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