Detana! Twinbee

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Detana! Twinbee/Bells & Whistles/Twinbee '91
Screenshot of Detana! Twinbee/Bells & Whistles/Twinbee '91
Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami
Release date(s)	February 21, 1991 1991
Genre(s)	Vertical Shooter
Mode(s)	1 or 2 player co-operative
Platform(s)	Arcade Computers: Sharp X68000 Consoles: PC Engine, Playstation (as part of Detana! TwinBee Yahoo), Sega Saturn Handhelds: PlayStation Portable (as part of TwinBee Portable)
Input	8-way joystick, 2 buttons
Arcade cabinet	Upright
Arcade system(s)	JAMMA
Arcade display	Raster, 224 x 256 pixels (Vertical)

Detana! Twinbee (also known as Bells & Whistles and Twinbee '91), is a video game published and developed by Konami. The game was an arcade release, and was also ported to PC Engine, X68000, PlayStation and Sega Saturn (the latter two bundled with Twinbee Yahho!) It has no relation from the original and Famicom games. While not too different, gameplay wise, from its predecessors, Detana! improves vastly on graphics and audio. It also introduces new characters, like Twinbee's and Winbee's "pilots" (Light and Pastel, respectively) and other characters that will remain in the subsequent games. It was the most popular game in the series in Japan, and paved the way for some merchandise products (including audio dramas and an Original Video Animation). This also introduced cutscenes that played between stages, which usually introduced the characters, or showed Pastel and Winbee getting the one up on Light and Twinbee.