Twinkle Star Sprites

Twinkle Star Sprites is a scrolling shooter game by SNK. The gameplay, which can be characterized as a combination of a fixed shooter and a versus puzzle game, uses combinations of shots, as well as timed power-ups to attempt to damage the opponent. These attacks also serve as counters to the opponent's attack. It was released for the Wii Virtual Console in 2011 and for the Nintendo Switch in 2018.

Gameplay
There are two types of standard attacks: a normal shot and a charge-up shot. Each character starts with two bombs which enables him/her in the event of desperate plight, to clean with the screen while briefly acquiring a state of invincibility. The two players' playfields are separated by a vertical bar, each one having its own independent of the other. Series of enemies arrive from the top of the screen. The player is to successfully destroy them in chains, which will send one or more fireball projectiles to the screen of his/her opponent. Shooting at Normal Attacks several times reflects them back as glowing Reverse Attacks. If Reverse Attacks are reflected again, a number of powerful counterattacks in the shape of one or more indestructible enemies appear. Reflecting many Reverse Attacks at once can instead summon a boss.