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Atari A to Z (Pete Davison) - 03/07/2022

Today I take on a classic Bitmap Brothers shoot 'em up... or the first level of it, anyway, because it's a lot harder than I remember! Let's Play! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeeqaIxe_oA

IntoTheVerticalBlank - 01/07/2022

The first and best of the Xenon series. Quite possibly the best Atari ST game of this type.

Simon Sunnyboy / Paradize - 01/11/2009

One of my alltime favourite shooters!
It's smooth, playable, has a superb soundtrack and the certain something!

A classic on ST!

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Information - Xenon

Genre	Shoot'em Up! - Vertical Scrolling	Year	1988
Language	Machine Language	Publisher	Melbourne House
Controls	Joystick	Distributor	Virgin Mastertronic
Players	1, Demo, 2 (alt.)	Developer	Bitmap Brothers
Resolution	Low	Licensed from	-
Programmer(s)	Kelly, Steve	Country
Graphic Artist(s)	Montgomery, Mike / Coleman, Mark	Software	English
Game design	Kelly, Steve	Box / Instructions
Musician(s)	Whittaker, David	License	Commercial
Sound FX	Whittaker, David	Serial
Cover Artist(s)		ST Type	ST, STe, TT / 0.5MB
MIDI		Version
Dump	Download / Pasti	Number of Disks	1 / Single Sided
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Other versions with the same title:

Arcadia Software (USA)
16 Blitz Tronix (version [Budget]) (United Kingdom)

Virgin Games (United Kingdom)
16 Blitz Plus (version [Budget]) ()

Distributed in Italy by Leader.

See P. Putnik's site for adapted versions for hardware like HxC Floppy Emulator, Atari harddisk, TT, Falcon030 and more: The Atari ST Game Archive

Disk - Xenon

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Videos - Xenon

Article - Xenon

Bitmap Brothers interview

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Trivia - Xenon

Origins
Working title for the game was Kelly X

Sound
If you locate the file SPEECH.DAT from the game disk, copy it to another disk, and change the suffix to PRG or TOS, you can launch the program and press keys from Q - T to play different speech samples from the game.

Awards
Microcomputer Industry Awards: Best Sound 1988

Charts
Top UK ST charts position: 2 (5/1988)
Months on charts: 4 between 5/1988 - 8/1988

Book / Magazine Reviews - Xenon

ST Action · May, 1988

Rating: 85 %

ST Format · April, 1991

Rating: 70%