ITS THE EARLY '80s and you're in an arcade pushing your hard-earned 10p pieces into a coin-op that features screenfuls of miniature aliens moving from side to side before leaping down at your ship. You frantically thrust your craft sideways, wishing that it could move up and down the screen as well as along the bottom. Are we talking about Space Invaders? Nope! The other one... Phoenix In the early days of arcade gaming, the people who frequented arcados split roughly into three camps: the Space Invaders superheroes, the Battlezone boys and the Phoenix freaks. The first two groups have seen plenty of action recently, but for some reason Phoenix has been ignored by those who like to profit from the current obsession with all things old and 'classic' Dinamic's Megaphoenix offers the classic gameplay split into five-stage levels of increasing difficulty there are also a number of add-ons for the bask ship to help the player who gets far enough to need them: the proton cannon, turbo laser, additional turbo laser (imaginative, huh?) and lateral proton cannon give a vaguely Xenon II-Ish look to the craft, but you'll have to battle hard to see them.
 
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