Phalanx headed to WiiWare in Japan

by Alexander Sliwinski { Nov 12th 2009 at 5:15PM }

Space shoot 'em up Phalanx will make its way to WiiWare in Japan sometime this winter. It will be based on the Sharp X68000 and not the Super Nintendo iteration, according to GamerBytes (translated from GameWatch). The game will cost 500 Wii points and currently has no announcement of a worldwide release.

Although we recall Phalanx being a competent shooter, the game is actually remembered for its SNES box art, which featured an elderly Appalachian-lookin' man holding a banjo. Almost 20 years later, we still don't understand it.

[Via GamerBytes]

Tags: phalanx, zoom-inc

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

NintendoJunkie @ Nov 12th 2009 5:23PM

HAHA...I remember this box art...ah man box art was awesome back then.

Fernando Rocker @ Nov 12th 2009 5:42PM

Nice!

Adv2k1 @ Nov 12th 2009 6:08PM

i bet that guy didn't care what the picture was for, as long as he got money.

esposch @ Nov 12th 2009 6:11PM

Wait, I could swear we had this on a DOS computer at after care!
Is it the one with the V-Beam and the Phalanx Beam, and you would pick which ones to use before you started the level?

esposch @ Nov 12th 2009 6:13PM

EDIT: Forget that. Just read the article on Tinycartridge, and they included a video.
This game looks like ass now (bloody horizontal shooters...)

Nook @ Nov 13th 2009 7:49AM

The only connection I can draw is that some banjo players....can pick really damn fast.

I'm up for a fast shooter game, hopefully the new version comes to NAU.

Dv8thwonder @ Nov 14th 2009 5:25AM

Bullet Hell is painful bliss.

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