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Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles

Bells & Whistles is a shooting game released by Konami in 1991. 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…

15 January 2020

Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles is an arcade developed by Konami, released 15 January 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles is

Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles is an arcade game developed by Konami and released in 2020. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set several years after the events of the original TwinBee, TwinBee and WinBee are relaxing at their island when they receive an SOS signal from the distant planet of Meru. The signal contains a message sent by Queen Melora, who pleads for the salvation of her planet from the invading forces of the evil alien Iva. TwinBee and his friends decides to set off to outer space to defeat the forces of Iva and save Planet Meru.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the TwinBee series

Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles is the 32nd of 32 entries we hold in the TwinBee series. It arrived 9 months after Anniversary Collection Arcade Classics. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

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What it launched against

Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles launched on 15 January 2020, within three weeks of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet and Metro Exodus: Sam's Story. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet, Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.

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When did Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles come out?
Arcade Archives: Bells & Whistles was released on 15 January 2020 for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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