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Phantom Fighter

General info

Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

2004-12-21

Stats

4,687

Conversions

PC (DOS)
Tandy PC/IBM PCjr

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Version info

No
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Credits

Game design

Hard Disk Installer

No

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1988
Phantom Fighter
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
English, French, German
1
Rare

Notes

Distributed in the UK by Electronic Arts.


TRIVIA: [1] PHANTOM FIGHTER was Emerald Software's first ever commercial game.

[2] Although announced for U.S. release in 1989 by Brøderbund under the title IF IT MOVES, SHOOT IT!, there is no evidence that an NTSC version of the game was ever released other than an Amiga screenshot appearing on the game box of the American PC release (see HERE).

[3] Even more curious, however, is that the PC version of PHANTOM FIGHTER reportedly deviated from the Amiga release by being coded as a pure vertical scroller in the mould of NEMESIS / GRADIUS, whilst the Amiga version was a more advanced hybrid horizontal/vertical scroller à laSALAMANDER / LIFE FORCE.

Conversion Notes

PC versions: CGA, EGA, VGA, Tandy/PCjr

N.B. Not related to the NES game of the same name.

Screen info

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Scan info

Box: OCS
Box scan OCS no. 1

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Disk: OCS
Disk scan OCS no. 1

Misc: OCS

Manual info

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Manual (English)

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Manual (German/French)

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No cheats found.

Conversion info

PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

EGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Conversion PC (DOS)

US Release (VGA)

Conversion PC (DOS)

Tandy PC/IBM PCjr
No conversion screens found.

Map info

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No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
ACE: Advanced Computer Entertainment
17 (Feb 1989)
729/1000
Phil South
1
Amiga Computing
Vol 1 No 11 (Apr 1989)
55%
Hugh Allen
1
Amiga User International
Vol 3 No 3 (Mar 1989)
7/10
Tony Horgan
1
Computer + Video Games
89 (Mar 1989)
60%
Paul Glancey
0
CU Amiga
Dec 1988
60%
Steve Jarratt
1
Datormagazin
No 3 (Feb 1989)
4/10
Johan Pettersson
0
The One
3 (Dec 1988)
80%
Gary Penn
2

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
The Games Machine
14 (Jan 1989)
Preview
1

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Lore Score: 56%

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