Players use TwinBee or WinBee in a short string of six levels that repeats indefinitely, with a boss at the end of each.
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The player must shoot these bells to keep them afloat and after shooting them a number of times, they will change colors, allowing the player to add new abilities to their spacecraft.ĭespite being one of Konami's most prominent series in Japan during most of the 1990s, only a select few titles were localized for the foreign market. The main power-ups in the TwinBee are yellow bells that the player can uncover by shooting at the floating clouds. The player control their spacecraft in most games shooting or punching at airborne enemies while literally throwing bombs on ground ones similarly to Namco's Xevious. In contrast to the series sci-fi theme of Konami's Gradius series, the fictional universe of the TwinBee series is set in a cartoon-like world featuring several kinds of anthropomorphic creatures in addition to regular human characters. A third ship also exists named GwinBee, a green counterpart to TwinBee and WinBee who in most games serves as a power-up, but in some instances also appear as a third playable spacecraft. In most games, the first player controls TwinBee while WinBee is controlled by the second player. The series centers around a blue bumblebee-shaped anthropomorphic fighter craft named TwinBee, who is usually accompanied by a pink "female" counterpart known as WinBee.