A vertical scrolling shoot 'em up, where you can reverse the scrolling

Question

I'm looking for a game I remember playing as a kid on a PC (I think) and my Game Boy (early 90s), but I can't recall its name.

• It was definitely a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up, where you could reverse the scrolling a bit. In some levels you needed this in order to escape dead ends.

• The enemies where organic. Giant monsters instead of enemy ships.

• There was an ugly alien shopkeeper where you could buy power-ups between levels.

• Some of the power-ups would then show up as sidekicks next to the player ship.

Answer

Xenon 2 - Megablast.

Apparently its creators are offering a free download of a remake over at http://www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk/our-games/past/xenon2.htm

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