"Twinbee" anyone?

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:13 am

When talking about Konami's shmups, we usually talk about Gradius & Parodius, but then there are still a very famous Konami's shmups series: Twinbee. There are not even a Twinbee ST/GD at Strategy Section or any High Scores Thread... Are there really a general lack of interest in Twinbee?

As far as I know there are more than 10 Twinbee games out there. I myself only have played 3 of them. Namely...

NES Twinbee (the first one)
The two games in PS/SS Twinbee Deluxe Pack

What's the others? Which are good? Which are bad? Are there any Twinbee game coming on Virtual Console?

Bloodreign · Post by **Bloodreign** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:17 am

3 SNES ones
Twinbee Da! Gameboy
Twinbee arcade
Detana Twinbee arcade
Pop N Twinbee SFC
Twinbee Yahho! arcade (arcade ones have the PSP port, and the original has a few ports, NES, and MSX come to mind)
Twinbee Puzzle Dama
Twinbee RPG

I doubt that's all there is, but Twinbee has seen enough ports over the years.

viniciusvbf · Post by **viniciusvbf** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:21 am

Which are bad?

Twinbee Yahho!

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:25 am

IIRC, Detana Twinbee & Twinbee Yahho! are the two on PS/SS Deluxe Pack.

viniciusvbf wrote:
Which are bad?
Twinbee Yahho!

Twinbee Yahho! is bad?! Which version are you playing?

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:16 am

Yahhoo! got played in STGT...

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:50 am

There's a good overview of the series at HG101. It was written by one of our forum members, I believe, though since he uses his real name in the article I won't "out" him. And it's been pointed out that Twinbee Da!! (which has since had a PSP remake for Twinbee Portable) isn't just a port of the original.

I've played Da on GBC and Pop'n Twinbee on SNES. They're nice, relaxing games, and the bombing reminds me of good old Xevious. I want to try the arcade games too, especially Yahho; it looks gorgeous.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:54 am

We know Turrican writes much of the articles there.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:05 am

Twiddle wrote:We know Turrican writes much of the articles there.

Not nearly as many as you imply, alas ^_^;

That Twinbee article was written four-hands with Kurt, and it would need a revamp here and there; anyway for all the fans of Twinbee Da! out there I warmly recommend the PSP update, which stays true to the original source while adding a little manicness to boss fights. Quite sweet!

grovsnus · Post by **grovsnus** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:46 am

Pop n Twinbee on the SFC is great.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:59 pm

SAM wrote:
viniciusvbf wrote:
Which are bad?
Twinbee Yahho!
Twinbee Yahho! is bad?! Which version are you playing?

Twinbee Yahhoo got a bum rap becuase of the tournament. It's not a bad game at all, IMO. The levels are very well designed. I found the gravity sections (the bullet patterns were designed around them) to be a nice change of pace.

viniciusvbf · Post by **viniciusvbf** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:49 am

BrianC wrote:
SAM wrote:
viniciusvbf wrote: Twinbee Yahho!
Twinbee Yahho! is bad?! Which version are you playing?
Twinbee Yahhoo got a bum rap becuase of the tournament. It's not a bad game at all, IMO. The levels are very well designed. I found the gravity sections (the bullet patterns were designed around them) to be a nice change of pace.

Those cats in stage 4 are really fun. Very well designed stage

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:06 am

viniciusvbf wrote:
BrianC wrote:
SAM wrote: Twinbee Yahho! is bad?! Which version are you playing?
Twinbee Yahhoo got a bum rap becuase of the tournament. It's not a bad game at all, IMO. The levels are very well designed. I found the gravity sections (the bullet patterns were designed around them) to be a nice change of pace.
Those cats in stage 4 are really fun. Very well designed stage

Cats ok.
But score system...

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:05 pm

viniciusvbf wrote:
BrianC wrote:
SAM wrote: Twinbee Yahho! is bad?! Which version are you playing?
Twinbee Yahhoo got a bum rap becuase of the tournament. It's not a bad game at all, IMO. The levels are very well designed. I found the gravity sections (the bullet patterns were designed around them) to be a nice change of pace.
Those cats in stage 4 are really fun. Very well designed stage

Cats are easy with the Detana style charge and the bomb charge.

PooshhMao · Post by **PooshhMao** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:08 pm

Never really liked TwinBee all that much.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:49 pm

How the heck is Twinbee Yahoo! bad? The saturn collection is still spinning nowadays

I think the weakest of them all is simply the first one, just because of the tiny bullets. Heck, I even like Rainbow Bell Adventures a bloody lot, despite the disappointing 69 from SuperPlay.

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:40 am

I think the Twinbee games are ok but I find shooting and grabbing bells to be distracting.

PooshhMao · Post by **PooshhMao** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:39 am

No_not_like_Quake wrote:I think the Twinbee games are ok but I find shooting and grabbing bells to be distracting.

Yes exactly - it's too much a hassle to juggle the bells until they represent the item you need.