TwinBee

This article is about the video game. For the series, see TwinBee (series).

TwinBee
Japanese arcade flyer
DeveloperKonami
Publishers
ComposersShigeru Fukutake
Yoshinori Sasaki
SeriesTwinBee
PlatformsArcade, Famicom, MSX, X68000, Famicom Disk System, mobile phone, Game Boy Advance
Release
February 1985
  • Arcade
    • JP: February 1985
    Famicom
    • JP: January 4, 1986
    MSX
    • JP: May 25, 1986
    • EU: 1986
    X68000
    • JP: February 1988
    Famicom Disk System
    • JP: March 11, 1988
    Mobile
    Game Boy Advance
    • JP: May 21, 2004
GenreScrolling shooter
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemBubble System, Konami GX400

TwinBee is a 1985 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Konami for arcades. Along with Sega's Fantasy Zone (1986), it is credited as an early archetype of the "cute 'em up" subgenre. It was the first game to run on Konami's Bubble System hardware. TwinBee was ported to the Family Computer and MSX in 1986, and has been included in numerous compilations released in later years. The original arcade game was released outside Japan for the first time as part of the Nintendo DS compilation Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits. A mobile phone version with edited graphics was released for Japanese i-mode mobile phones in 2003.

Various TwinBee sequels were released for the arcade and home console markets following the original game, some of which spawned audio drama and anime adaptations in Japan.


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