TwinBee (ツインビー, TsuinBī) is a vertically scrolling shooter released by Konami as an arcade video game in 1985 in Japan.
Along with Sega's Fantasy Zone, released a year later, TwinBee is credited as an early archetype of the "cute 'em up" type in its genre.
Various TwinBee sequels were released for the arcade and home console markets following the original game, some of which spawned audio drama and anime adaptations in Japan.
[8] The arcade version of TwinBee was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs on December 1, 2010.
The Famicom port was re-released via the Nintendo Switch Online service in November 2018[9] worldwide, with an SP version titled TwinBee: A Second Helping of Donburi Island!
[11] In Japan, Game Machine listed TwinBee on their April 1, 1985 issue as being the third most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
[12] The version of Twinbee for Nintendo 3DS received a total of 68/100 on Metacritic, which is mixed to positive, with an average user score of 7.3.