{"id":107382,"date":"2020-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/another_one_of_konamis_twinbee_games_joins_the_arcade_archives_series"},"modified":"2020-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"another-one-of-konamis-twinbee-games-joins-the-arcade-archives-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/another-one-of-konamis-twinbee-games-joins-the-arcade-archives-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Another One Of Konami&#8217;s TwinBee Games Joins The Arcade Archives Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2744b6adb4746\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2744b6adb4746\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Towards the end of last year, Hamster added Konami&#8217;s vertical side-scrolling shoot &#8217;em up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/twinbee\">TwinBee<\/a><\/strong> to its Arcade Archives collection on the Nintendo Switch. Now, to follow this up, it has decided to release <strong>Bells &amp; Whistles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the two titles sound like they have nothing in common, Bells &amp; Whistles is actually the fifth entry in the TwinBee series and is known as <strong>Detana!! TwinBee<\/strong> in Japan. The premise of this 1991 release is much the same &#8211; requiring the player to shoot everything in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some more information about it from the official PR, and below this are some in-game screenshots:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Collect bells to receive all sorts of power ups or powerful Charged Shots and use them to save Planet Mel from being invaded by the alien Iva. During co-op play, TWINBEE and WINBEE can work together to use Special Power Up attacks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"BW\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e8d74c9b0838\/bw.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e8d74c9b0838\/bw.original.png\" alt=\"BW\"><\/a><a title=\"BW\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b1c5b166c08f5\/bw.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b1c5b166c08f5\/bw.original.png\" alt=\"BW\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"BW\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1bca57f33af40\/bw.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1bca57f33af40\/bw.original.png\" alt=\"BW\"><\/a><a title=\"Unnamed (80)\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/121cf1434d38a\/unnamed-80.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/121cf1434d38a\/unnamed-80.original.png\" alt=\"Unnamed (80)\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bells &amp; Whistles will set you back $7.99 \/ \u00a36.29, supports up to two players and is due out tomorrow on 16th January.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be adding this to your retro game library on the Switch? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of last year, Hamster added Konami&#8217;s vertical side-scrolling shoot &#8217;em up TwinBee to its Arcade Archives collection on the Nintendo Switch. Now, to follow this up, it has decided to release Bells &amp; Whistles. Although the two titles sound like they have nothing in common, Bells &amp; Whistles is actually the fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}