Ok pop quiz GAGers: can YOU guess what video game genre this game is in based only off this cover?

[Still-alive]

Yup thats correct this old guy playing the banjo with his dog is on the cover of a nintendo game from the early 90s. guess the genre! first one to guess gets mho. Don't look it up :P

First person shooter

Puzzle

Space shooter (aka shmups)

RPG (role playing game)

Edutainment

Platformer

Other (whats your guess?)

Updates

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySj8nOTJxfk

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."

[purplepoppy]

I know the word means those armys with long spears and also the finger bones. Given he's got a banjo I'm guessing it refers to fingering. Was it a game about fingering?

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I have no idea.

[Still-alive]

Just take a wild guess. feel lucky lol

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Space Shooter?

(I see something that appears to be a rocket flying or exploding above.)

[Still-alive]

correct!

[DeeDeeDeVour]

:) Woo! Hoo! ;)

[DeeDeeDeVour]

@Still-alive
Thanks for the MHO. :)

[Ironic_Method]

I know the answer because I remember this ad. Holy nostalgia.

[ThrillSeeker01]

Space shooter?

[Still-alive]

Correct!

[ThrillSeeker01]

Awesome 😎

[petitedollbabee]

I guessed space shooter since the thingy in the background looks like an alien ship 👽

[meetkitty123]

It looks like a shooting space game. The whole hill Billy theme... Guns and being kid napped by aliens vibe... Plus it has a space ship in the background.

Makes me think of... I RECKON We ain't in Kansas no more!

[Yannae]

Puzzle.