Phalanx

[Discoalucard]

www.hardcoregaming101.net/phalanx/

It's Phalanx, Zoom's shoot-em-up that's mostly known for its "old banjo guy" cover, but is a pretty decent game in its own right. It actually originated on the X68000 computer, had a Game Boy Advance port/remake, and a port to the Wii (but only in Japan). Plus it was the focus of a minigame in the PS1 fighting game Zero Divide.

[ReyVGM]

Saw it on twitter a while ago that the Wii version was based off the X68 one. I'll see if I can get it before the service goes down in march.

[GamerL]

That old man with the banjo cover art really is legendary.

[1983parrothead]

North American divisions and localizers of Japanese video game companies can be zany, cocky and silly in some ways. Banjo player SNES front cover with spacecraft was made as a reference to the thought of UFOs found even on countrysides, just like that biker girl/UFO episode of the Hulk Hogan cartoon and this Men in Black scene: