Detana!! TwinBee

HISTORY

Detana!! TwinBee (Japanese: 出たな!! ツインビー "Here Comes TwinBee!!") is a vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up developed and published by Konami in 1991. It is the second of three arcade games from the series following TwinBee.

The game received ports on PC Engine, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and PlayStation Portable; with a recent port on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.

It was localized overseas under the title Bells & Whistles.

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Gameplay Overview

Controls

Detana!! TwinBee is a 2-button shooter. There are 7 stages, completing all of them enters loop 2.

A button: Fires the player's main weapon. Holding down the A button releases a charge shot.

B button: Fires the player's ground bomb (losing both arms disables the bomb).

Items

Bells are hidden within floating clouds, they can be uncovered by firing at the clouds. Ground Bells, GwinBee, Lucky Stars, and Fruit appear by destroying ground enemies.

The bell cycle starts at yellow. Hitting a Yellow Bell five times will make it advance to the next color. Every 5 hits will advance the bell to the next color.

Extra Lives

The player recieves no extra lives throughout the entire game.

Loops

Detana!! TwinBee ends after the second loop. There are no requirements, so upon beating stage 1-7 the player will always enter 2-1.

The player retains all Power Ups.

Strategy

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Regional/Version Differences

Trivia