TwinBee
1985 · Vertical Shooter · Arcade
Overview
TwinBee (1985) is Konami's two-player "cute 'em up", in which bells shot out of clouds change colour to give different power-ups.
Deep Dive
Player one flies TwinBee and player two WinBee, with separate buttons for air shots and ground bombs. Shooting a bell changes its colour: yellow for points, white for a twin cannon, blue for speed, green for copies of the ship and red for a barrier. Lose both arms and an ambulance comes to repair them, but only once; the two ships can also line up for stronger attacks.
Developer Story
Konami released it in arcades in February 1985, followed by Famicom and MSX versions in 1986, with music by Shigeru Fukutake and Yoshinori Sasaki. It is credited with Sega's Fantasy Zone as an early cute 'em up and began the TwinBee series.
Did You Know?
- It was the first game on Konami's Bubble System arcade hardware.
- It did not come out outside Japan until 2007, on a Nintendo DS compilation.
Sources & further reading
- TwinBee (video game) — Wikipedia
