Detana!! TwinBee (出たな!! ツインビー, "Here Comes TwinBee!!"?), originally released outside Japan as Bells & Whistles, is a vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up game originally released by Konami in 1991 as a coin-operated video game. It is the fifth game in the TwinBee series and the second released for the arcades following the original TwinBee (the previous sequels were released directly to home consoles). In Japan, Detana!! TwinBee was ported to the X68000 computer in 1991, to the PC Engine in 1992, and to the Mobile Phones in 2004, as well as for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in the compilation Detana TwinBee Yahoo! Deluxe Pack and for the PlayStation Portable in TwinBee Portable. The PC Engine port of the game was released for the Wii Virtual Console in North America and Europe in 2009 as a "Hanabi Festival" release. The game was released for the PlayStation Network in Japan on June 16, 2010. On November 24, 2010, the game was released on Xbox 360; it was included on the "Game Pack 012" of Game Room gaming service, it also was released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on January 16, 2020 as part of the Arcade Archives label.
Detana!! TwinBee marked the debut of Japanese animator Shujiro Hamakawa (credited under the pen name Shuzilow.HA) as the series' primary character designer for every subsequent installment. Detana!! TwinBee was awarded "Best Shooting Game of 1991" by the Japanese arcade game magazine Gamest.
Plot[]
Set several years after the events of the original TwinBee, TwinBee and WinBee are relaxing at their island when they receive an SOS signal from the distant planet of Meru. The signal contains a message sent by Princess Melora, who pleads for the salvation of her planet from the invading forces of the evil alien Iva. TwinBee and his friends decide to set off to outer space to defeat the forces of Iva and save Planet Meru. Detana!! marks the first appearance of TwinBee's and WinBee's respective pilots, Light and Pastel, who became prominent characters in many subsequent TwinBee video games and related media, although they were originally unnamed in this game (the characters were given their names in the audio drama TwinBee Paradise).
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Trivia[]
- Pastel makes cameo as toy in Tokimeki Memorial.
- Light, Pastel and Queen Melora appears as playable character in the mini game Great Bishi Bashi Champ.
- Pastel appears as playable character in Konami Krazy Racers and Bombergirl.
- Pastel makes cameo in Ganbare Goemon 2.
- In Tokimeki Memorial 4, appears as Queen Melora's Custome from the Store for 40 richs, after beating 6 girls' routes.
- Light, Pastel and Queen Melora appear in the puzzle game Pixel Puzzle Collection.
- In Pro Yakyū Spirits A, Pastel appears in the event 2020 OB Dai 3-dan (2020OB第1弾) as part of Kessei! Pro Spirits Ouen-Dan (結成！プロスピ応援団) from November 11 to 26.
- Pastel appears in the Bombergirl comic, and Light, TwinBee and Melora appears as cameo.
- In episode 20 of Mysterious Nile Girl Thutmose, "The Game Center Monster", an arcade flyer of Detana!! TwinBee can be briefly seen in the background of an amusement arcade.
External links[]
- Detana!! TwinBee at the TwinBee Wiki