TwinBee (NES version)

“Twinbee” is a cute-em-up! Get it? Because of saying it is a shoot-em-up, I put the word “cute” in there! Because it has an adorable aesthetic! I mean, it is also a shoot-em-up, but why be accurate with phrasing when I could fall right in with the marketing and say “cute-em-up”? Alas, it’s a vertical shooter on the Nintendo Entertainment System that doesn’t rock the boat. It’s functional but hardly inspired, the sort of game you can have fun with for five minutes before switching it off and comfortably forgetting it exists. The NES is full of games like this.

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