(MD) Phelios

Vertical shoot’em up developed and published by Namco in 1989 for arcades and ported to Megadrive in 1990.
The story is lightly based on Greek mythology, the player controls Apollo who rides his winged horse Pegasus in a journey to rescue his lover Artemis (who was his sister according to Greek mythology).
There are two kind of shots, by pressing the button a single shot is fired while holding and then releasing produces a big fireball; Apollo can be hit 4 times before dying but touching a wall will kill him instantly and at the end of each stages he has to face off some boss characters based on Greek myth : Medusa, the Graeae, the Siren, Antaeus, Scylla, Cerberus and Typhon, the Titan who kidnapped Artemis.