SNES or SEGA space game

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I have a very strong yet vague memory of this game. A friend of mine had it, and I envied her so much for it. I'm pretty sure it was SNES, but could have been early SEGA. To risk a date I would say 1994-95, approximately. It had sort of a space invaders dynamic, but it looked way better (the background moved smoothly). It had light colors, like pinks or blues (at least in the levels I remember), and (I know this will sound like a million games) when you killed enemies they dropped powers that made you do things like shoot double or triple lines, have a shield or things like that. I think (it's coming to my mind just now) that you could see cities in the background (not sure), and there were round clouds floating around. I also remember (quite sure) that the "powers" you got changed your spaceship, so it looked different, it got bigger. Ufff I know it's not much, but it'd be great to finally have that game myself :)

I remember this to be a very polished game for that time, very pretty (that's why it think it could have been SEGA instead of SNES). Thank you so much for your help.

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What you describe sounds like a vertical shooter, and vertical shooter plus pink and blue colors automatically leads me to think about TwinBee.

There are quite a few TwinBee games (see the bottom of the wikipedia page) and some to match the timeframe. The games also feature quite a few of the things you remember. Here are a couple of images:

And here's a gameplay video:

Note that the gameplay video is from the original TwinBee for the NES, while the screenshots are probably from Pop'n TwinBee.

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