Phalanx (video game)

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Phalanx

Developer(s)	ZOOM Inc.
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	1992
Genre(s)	Shooting
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: N/A
Platform(s)	Sharp X68000, Super NES, GBA

Phalanx is a space shooter video game designed by ZOOM Inc. for the Sharp X68000, and Kemco for the Super Nintendo and Game Boy Advance.

Phalanx is infamous for the incongruous box art in its American release: it displays a bearded old man dressed in overalls, wearing a fedora and playing a banjo while a futuristic spaceship flies in the background.

The box art designers later admitted that they had deliberately chosen this theme in order to attract the customer with something original considering there were many space shooters in the market that looked alike.^{[citation needed]}