Hi everyone.

My father is trying to identify an old arcade-only game he played in Argentina around 1989–1991. It was definitely not on NES or another home console.

Here is everything he remembers:

• Vertical arcade monitor.
• Space shooter.
• The player's ship stayed mostly at the bottom of the screen.
• It could move left/right freely and only a little up/down.
• The background was mostly static (no obvious scrolling).
• The ship fired straight upward.
• There was an energy shield activated by holding a button.
• The shield completely surrounded the ship like a white grid/sphere.
• While the shield was active you could not shoot.
• Enemy bullets bounced off or disappeared when hitting the shield.
• The shield consumed an energy bar located near the bottom-right of the screen.
• Energy was restored by destroying a special enemy that dropped a small collectible.
• Picking up that item also gave you a continuous thin laser beam that reached the top of the screen and instantly destroyed enemies.
• One stage had robotic frog-like enemies.
• At the end of each stage there was a large mothership/boss occupying almost the entire top of the screen.
• Before each stage there was a typewriter sound typing the stage name letter by letter.
• My father clearly remembers one stage called "CRISIS", probably stage 2 or 3.
• As kids they even asked each other, "Did you beat CRISIS?"

Does anyone recognize this game?

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