Line #9 YMMV/Twinbee


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Like in the case of ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'', the first Famicom [=TwinBee=] game is what most people not from the U.S. think of when they hear about the franchise even though it's an arcade port. For the U.S. where the first game was never exported, it's instead ''Stinger'' that most Americans remember.
2	* AntiClimaxBoss: The final boss of ''Detana!! [=TwinBee=]'' goes down very easily.
3	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: The anime is perhaps best known for the beauty pageant scene, where Dr. Mardock accidentally enlarges some of the contestants with a growth ray.
4	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Pastel and Winbee, ordinarily the second player, have proven much more popular than Light and Twinbee (the first player). The duo often cameos with [[VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial Shiori Fujisaki]] in multiple Konami games and are playable in ''VideoGame/KonamiKrazyRacers'', ''VideoGame/{{Bombergirl}}'' and ''VideoGame/LivePowerfulProBaseballMobile''.
5	* GameBreaker: In "Rainbow Bell Adventures", Winbee and Gwinbee can both qualify as this.
6	** Winbee has a very short jump meter that allows her to blast through levels incredibly quickly, but she also has a long attack meter that makes bosses hard to defeat.
7	** On the other hand, while Gwinbee's long jump meter makes platforming a bit trickier, the short attack meter makes almost every boss in the game an absolute cakewalk.
8	* HilariousInHindsight:
9	** Light's voice actor is Creator/KappeiYamaguchi. Fast forward to 2006, and the same Creator/KappeiYamaguchi ends up voicing [[Manga/{{DeathNote}} L]], who is pitted against an evil guy named Light.
10	** The ''Fanfic/TokimekiPokeLiveAndTwinbee'' counterpart of Pastel has Cerise as her surname. A few years after ''PokéLive!''Pastel's debut, in 2020, A Professor from Vermilion City in ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'' shares the same surname as that version of Pastel.
11	* MemeticBadass: Gwinbee in "Rainbow Bell Adventures" for being incredibly powerful against bosses despite only being a year old.
12	* ScrappyMechanic: The original arcade ''[=TwinBee=]'' game runs on Bubble Memory, an early attempt at solid-state memory. The problem is, it needs 99 seconds to warm up the system to its operating temperature, and it's prone to electromagnetic interference, which is inevitable in a public arcade with many other functioning cabinets present. As a result, working ''[=TwinBee=]'' boards are quite rare.
13	* SequelDifficultyDrop: As Konami made more sequels of ''[=TwinBee=]'', the newer games' difficulty dropped partly because they got a more robust array of bonus items, special abilities, game balance tweaks, and anti-frustration features. For example, the MSX version of the first game had a black bell [[PoisonMushroom power-down]] that kills your ship upon contact. In future installments like ''Detana!! [=TwinBee=]'', the black bell decreases the ship's speed by one level instead.
14	* SequelDisplacement: ''Detana!! Twinbee'' pretty much established the tone of the rest of the series thanks to the contribution of anime character designer Shuzilow [=HA=], who was heavily involved in the game's story and characters.

Context YMMV / Twinbee