Trivia / TwinBee

• The Cameo:
  • TwinBee first appeared as a cameo in the MSX version of Gradius. This will become the setting for its later reappearance in the Parodius series.
  • TwinBee, WinBee, and GwinBee make a cameo appearance in Otomedius Gorgeous.
  • In the PlayStation and Sega Saturn versions of Snatcher, Light and Pastel appear as clients at the Outer Heaven nightclub among other Konami characters.
  • One of the games in the BishiBashi series has Light and Pastel as playable characters.
  • In Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shōgun Magginesu, Pastel makes an appearance as an NPC in a house at the village which is visited at night.
• Franchise Killer: The poorly received TwinBee RPG for the PlayStation. There were still releases for the franchise afterwards, like TwinBee Portable and compilation collections, but since the 1990s, no proper mainline TwinBee game has come out.
• Guest Fighter:
  • Pastel is an unlockable playable character in the 1998 Battle Tryst Fighting Game.
  • Pastel is also a playable character in Konami Krazy Racers.
• Secret Character:
  • If an MSX TwinBee game cartridge were placed in the second slot while the Gradius cart remained in the first slot, the TwinBee ship should replace Vic Viper and become the main ship.
  • TwinBee is an unlockable aircraft in Airforce Delta Strike if you beat the game with any pilot from 2nd Element.
  • In most of the Parodius series, TwinBee and WinBee end up as playable characters while Shooting Star (the enemy red ship in TwinBee Yahho!) is playable in Sexy Parodius.
• Sidelined Protagonist Crossover: It should be noted that TwinBee's and WinBee's pilots Light and Pastel don't appear in the Parodius series in any form except as a visual reference in Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius: Forever With Me.
• Unlockable Content:
  • In Contra: Returns, TwinBee and WinBee appear collectively as a Pet Spotlight.
  • In VS! Bomberman, Light and Pastel are available as costumes by Bomberman.
  • The Goonies Famicom/NES videogame lets you collect TwinBee as an item for 5,000 points.
  • In Otomedius Gorgeous, you need to beat the game using Madoka in order to unlock the cameo appearance of TwinBee, WinBee, and GwinBee.
  • TwinBee makes an appearance as a secret item in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, and Castlevania: Harmony of Despair.