Xenon
Xenon is a vertically scrolling shooter the first developed by The Bitmap Brothers. It was originally written for the Atari ST and published by Melbourne House in 1988, then ported to the Amiga, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, and ZX Spectrum. It was featured as a play-by-phone game on the Saturday-morning kids' show Get Fresh.
Xenon was almost universally well-received on launch, with reviewers from magazines covering a range of platforms all scoring the game very highly. Only German magazine Power Play bucked the trend, awarding it a score of 4.5 out of 10,
Xenon was almost universally well-received on launch, with reviewers from magazines covering a range of platforms all scoring the game very highly. Only German magazine Power Play bucked the trend, awarding it a score of 4.5 out of 10,
Year: 1988
Company: Melbourne House
Genre: Arcade
Platform: Spectrum
