Last updated on January 28th, 2026 at 05:17 pm
Phoenix (1980) is a timeless fixed shooter arcade game from Taito, released in December 1980 and brought to Europe and the Americas by Centuri and Amstar Electronics in January 1981.
It earned widespread acclaim, with Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz of Electronic Games hailing it as “perhaps the finest invasion title ever produced for the 2600!”
Computer and Video Games ranked it #1 among top Atari VCS games in 1983; it snagged a Certificate of Merit for “1984 Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Videogame” at the Arkie Awards; Flux placed it 69th in its 1995 Top 100; and AllGame’s Brett Alan Weiss gave it a perfect five stars as a “classic of the golden age.”
Phoenix endures as arcade perfection—tight, thrilling, replayable. Phoenix Point innovates boldly but needs tweaks to match its lineage. Both capture sci-fi invasion chaos, bridging retro roots to modern depth.
- CPU: 8085 at 5.5 MHz.
- RAM: 4 kB (8 2114 1k x 4 chips.)
- ROM: 16 kB (8 2716 2k x 8 chips.)
- Audio: Matsushita MN6221AA chip, along with discrete circuitry.
- Video: discrete circuitry, utilizing 4 more 2716 2k x 8 EPROMs, as well as 2 256 x 4 bipolar PROMs.
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