group of researchers lands on and partly colonizes the alien planet Delia. However, sometime after their stay, an emergency transmission is sent from Delia to their security force orbiting the planet. The only clue they are given is a message regarding a hazardous leak. The planet's space fighters had become possessed by an unknown space squadron of alien bioships that appear out of nowhere and soon make themselves a hostile threat among the possessed fighters. The player assumes the role of Wink Baulfield (named Rick in the Game Boy Advance version), an ace pilot assigned to investigate the disaster and possibly discover what is invading Delia in the assignment Operation Climax in the experimental space fighter the A/144 Phalanx. Development Box art The unusual SNES box art for the US release, featuring an elderly man (Bertil Valley) playing a banjo has been cited in examples of bizarre video game box art. In an interview with Destructoid, Matt Guss, an advertiser who worked on Phalanx's cover, stated that the idea for the art came from coworker Keith Campbell. Campbell, who didn't find anything in Phalanx that stood out, decided to make the packaging eye-catching, hoping a potential buyer would stare at the box art and wonder "what just happened." The box art itself has been described by Destructoid's Allastair Pinsoff as "Goofy and misleading" and by ScreenRant's Ryan Lynch as "the most surreal video game box art of all time". Release ZOOM Inc. announced that there would be a remake of this game for WiiWare at a cost of 500 Wii points. It was released in Japan on December 22, 2009. Reception SNES Force Magazine gave the SNES version a review score of 74% stating: "Unoriginal and frustrating gameplay saved only by clean, sharp graphics." References External links 1991 video games Science fiction video games Kemco games Zoom (video game company) games Game Boy Advance games Horizontally scrolling shooters X68000 games Super Nintendo Entertainment System games Video games developed in Japan WiiWare games Video games set in the 23rd century Single-player video games Video games set on fictional planets