If the player's ship loses both arms, it will lose the ability to throw bombs and the player must wait for an ambulance to arrive. However, if the bullet only strikes either side of the ship instead, the player's ship will only lose one of its arms. Other power-ups can also be retrieved from ground enemies such as an alternate bell that gives the player's ship a three-way gun, a star which eliminates all on-screen enemies.Īs with other games of the same genre, getting shot by a single enemy bullet will cause the player to lose a life. The green and red bells cannot be combined together.
TWINBEE SUPERSTAR UPGRADE
If the player continues shooting the bell after it appears, it will change into one of four other colors: the regular yellow bells only grant bonus points, the white bell will upgrade the player's gun into a twin cannon, the blue bell increases the player's speed (for up to five speed levels), the green bell will allow the player to create image copies of its ship for additional firepower, and the red bell will provide the player's ship a barrier that allows it to sustain more damage. The player's primary power-ups are bells that can be uncovered by shooting at the floating clouds where they're hidden. The game controls consists of an eight-way joystick and two buttons: one for shooting enemies in the air and for dropping bombs to ground enemies (similarly to Xevious). The player takes control of a cartoon-like anthropomorphic spacecraft, with Player 1 taking control of TwinBee, the titular ship, while Player 2 controls WinBee. TwinBee can be played by up to 2-players simultaneously. Various TwinBee sequels were released for the arcade and home console markets following the original game, some which spawned audio drama and anime adaptations in Japan. A mobile phone version was released for i-mode Japan phones in 2003 with edited graphics. The original arcade game was released outside Japan for the first time in the Nintendo DS compilation Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits. TwinBee was ported to the Family Computer and MSX in 1986 and has been included in numerous compilations released in later years. It was the very first game to run on Konami's Bubble System hardware. TwinBee is a cartoon-themed vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up game originally released by Konami as a coin-operated video game in 1985 in Japan. Jun Hosoba, Ichirō Mihara, Mitsunobu Karasawa. This game can be played also in a version for SG-1000. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and vNES (Java).