Phoenix – 1980’s Arcade game by Taito for the Amiga via JOTD gets an AGA update!

Here’s what the wikipedia says about the game “Phoenix is a fixed shooter video game developed for arcades in Japan and released in 1980 by Taito. The player controls a space ship shooting at incoming enemies that fly from the top of the screen down towards the player’s ship. A force field can be used by the player to protect them from these attacks. The force field only lasts a few seconds and then cannot be used for approximately five seconds after. There are five stages which repeat endlessly. The fifth is a fight against a large enemy spaceship, making Phoenix one of the first shooters with a boss battle, an element that would become common for the genre”.

Credits: 

jotd: reverse-engineering, transcode, graphics conversion
no9: music
Christopher from http://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/Phoenix/: Z80 disassembly and small RE
PascalDe73: amiga icons
mrv2k: flyer
Toni Galvez!:Aga graphics

Instructions:

5/fire: insert coin
1/up: start 1P game
left/right joystick/arrows: move ship
fire/ctrl: shoot
2nd button/down/alt: shield