One of the earliest shmups ever made, Twinbee on Famicom is short but sweet. A delightfully colored and vibrant game that's fairly challenging, but light enough on the enemy waves that it isn't daunting to people that would potentially want to start getting into this subgenre.

Like a lot of Konami classics, the music and sound effects are excellent, helping accentuate this epic space battle against enemies that look oddly close to houseware, as if the designers looked around their kitchen and decided this is the rogue gallery for their new arcade style space shooter. The early game development days were just magical.

Also, did anyone else first experience Twinbee in the form of a Newgrounds flash game where the titular ship just walked around normally and shot at bystanders with a real gun? No, just me? Cool.