Mega Twins, or, in the original, Chiki Chiki Boys, is an Action Game developed by Capcom for the Arcade in 1990 and later ported for the Sega Genesis in 1993.
In the land of Alurea, a pair of male twins are born to the royal couple, but hordes of monsters begin to attack the kingdom, which leads the royal princes to be smuggled away for their safety. Years pass, and the twin princes, all grown up, prepare to fight the monsters and take back their kingdom.
Tropes:
- Barrage of Bats: The boss of R4, Battle Stage 3, "Monster Castle's Dungeon", is an underwear-clad, top hat-wearing vampire named Curacula. Whenever he stays upside down on the ceiling, he may open his wings to release six cute, cartoony-looking small bats.
- Big "NO!": Curacula screams this after finishing his post boss dialog. In the PC-Engine version, this voice clip is reused when Riepohtmahn gets petrified and smashed to pieces.
- Blow You Away: It is more perceptible in the Arcade version: the blond oni boy of the mid-section of the sky stage stands on a moving cloud with a large white bag behind him. Whenever he attacks the player, he casts a horizontal gust of wind which originates from the large white bag.
- Bowdlerise: The bikini-clad blue-haired girls of the original Arcade game (who appeared throughout the stages of the Monster's Castle) were replaced with cutesy fairies in the Genesis port.
- Co-Op Multiplayer: The original release for the Arcade allowed for a two-player game.
- Damsel in Distress: In the original Arcade release, in Round 4 ("Monster's Castle"), the player finds bikini-clad blue-haired and blonde women tied in ropes through the stages. Helping the blue-haired woman nets points and a hint for the stage.
- Dem Bones: Some sword-wielding skeletons appear in the opening credits, but are never fought in the game. However, one pants-wearing skeleton appears as a mid-boss in Round 4, Stage 3.
- Easy-Mode Mockery: In the easier difficulties, only the first three stages are available. Beating them ends the game.
- Exposition Fairy: In the Genesis port, the player finds throughout Round 4 little blue-haired fairies that give hints about the stage.
- Fantasy Pantheon: After beating the three initial stages, the player character meets the game's deities (names from the American version):
- Callia, Goddess of the Earth.
- Meius, the God of Heavens (also an anthropomorphic goat).
- Poseidon, God of the Seas.
- Foreshadowing: In the second and fourth stages of round four, there are demonic statues with a red nose, a trait featured in clowns. The leader of the monsters turns out to be the clown named Riepotmahn.
- Heroic Mime: Both twins never utter a word in the cutscenes.
- Horned Humanoid: The boss of the mid-section of the sky stage is a horned blond boy wearing a tiger-striped loincloth, similar to a Japanese Oni.
- Land, Sea, Sky: The first three stages are the land, the sky and the sea, selectable in any order, provided the player has not finished any of them previously.
- Level in the Clouds: Round 2 is the heavens. In the first section, the player character is able to fly amidst the clouds by the use of a flying cap. A similar gameplay section reoccurs in Round 4, Stage 4.
- Levels Take Flight: The section immediately after the crumbling tower is Meius piloting an aircraft to save the player character and him navigating through the air back to Alurea. The player can get points by collecting the coins floating in the air.
- Lethal Lava Land: The second part of Round 1 (the earth stage) is described as a "cave of magma", including a Lava Pit.
- Literally Shattered Lives: After Riepotmahn gets petrified, he breaks apart to reveal the item he had on him. Which in the English version is the other Dragon Eye.
- Load-Bearing Boss: After defeating the final boss, the player has to escape from the crumbling tower, in a short section.
- Magical Clown: The Big Bad and Final Boss is Riepotmahn. He physically resembles a silly, fat circus clown, but he has the demeanor and powers of an Evil Sorcerer. He can summon monsters, teleport, and shoot projectiles such as energy blasts and fire rings from his finger. He's also apparently immortal, and can only be defeated by being turned to stone.
- Mana Meter: In this game, the player's magic meter is illustrated by an open clam with a pearl inside. The elder twin starts the game with three, while the younger one begins with five.
- Monster Clown: Riepotmahn, the clown-like final boss, is also the leader of the monster horde that invaded the heroes' kingdom and destroyed it, leaving no survivors aside from the heroes themselves.
- Mother of a Thousand Young: The boss of the sea stage is a large pink sea creature that can summon small versions of itself (implied to be its brood).
- Named by the Adaptation: The Sega Genesis/Megadrive manual names the blue twin Ken and his red-clad brother Uho.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Of a sort. Both twins are equipped with a sword and a shield, but the elder twin is "the best fencing master" and has more life, while the younger twin has a longer magic meter.
- Primary-Color Champion: The elder twin wears a blue outfit, while the younger twin dons a red mask and red pants.
- Shipshape Shipwreck: In the mid-section of the sea stage, the player traverses the wreckage of a sunken ship.
- Take Over the World: According to the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive manual, the destruction of Alurea was only a small part of Riepohtmahn's plot to conquer the entire world with other countries laid waste to. The attack on the sky land was also part of his world-wide conquest.
- Taken for Granite: Riepohtmahn's demise is that he gets transformed into a stone statue. The moment his body breaks into pieces, there is no doubt we will not be coming back.
- Tank-Tread Mecha: The game's ninth boss, fought at the bottom of the tower, is a tank-treaded construction robot named Navitank. It wears a construction helmet and attacks with a pick-axe. If done enough damage, the treads will be destroyed and the robot's upper body will hop around.
- Under the Sea: Round 3 is the sea stage: the player swims across the sea floor and through a shipwreck.
- Untranslated Title: After defeating the boss of the sea stage, the player reaches the underwater palace of Poseidon, which shows a moniker with the word Ryūgū ('dragon palace', in Japanese).
- When Trees Attack: Well, more like beans: in Round 1 (the earth) and in the last section of Round 2 (the sky), the player finds green bean-shaped, shoe-wearing enemies. Some orange bean-shaped enemies appear as the underlings for the boss of Round 4, Stage 1.
