Atari ST - Ocean Software - 1990
Rainbow Islands
1 / 13- Genre
- Arcade - Platformer (Scrolling)
- Year
- 1990
- Language
- Machine Language
- Publisher
- Ocean Software
- Controls
- Joystick / Keyboard
- Distributor
- -
- Players
- 1 / Demo
- Developer
- Graftgold
- Resolution
- Low
- Licensed from
- Taito
- Programmer(s)
- Braybrook, Andrew / Robinson, Dominic
- Country
- Graphic Artist(s)
- Cumming, John
- Software
- English
- Game design
- Taito
- Box/Instructions
- English / French / German / Italian
- Musician(s)
- Turner, Steve
- License
- Commercial
- Sound FX
- Page, Jason
- Serial
- —
- Cover Artist(s)
- —
- ST Type
- ST, STe / 0.5MB
- MIDI
- —
- Version
- —
- Dump
- Download
- Number of Disks
- 2 / Single Sided
- Dump format
- Pasti
- Protection
- —
OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (1)
1 / 4
Disk 1
INSTRUCTIONS (2)
ADS (4)
ARTICLE (3)
Work in Progress
TIPS (1)
The One Players Guide
TRIVIA (4)
Origins
Based on Taito 1987 coin-op.
Graphics
John Cummings used STOS BASIC to create mapper utility for building Rainbow Islands backgrounds. He also coded an IFF interpreter with STOS to convert original graphics sent by Taito. These graphics were then converted to NEOchrome's format for further processing. (Source: The One issue 6)
Temporarily unreleased
Rainbow Islands almost was one those games that never saw the light due a disagreement in licencing with Taito. Game wasn't finished in time so Taito saw that the agreement was over. They also claimed that they now own the homeconversion code.
Graftgold weren't too happy about that because game was developed by their OOPS! development system and refused to give any code to Taito. Fortunately the situation has cleared when Microprose bought three British Telecom's software labels and eventually got the rights to publish the game. (source: The One issue 15 (dec 1989).
Graftgold weren't too happy about that because game was developed by their OOPS! development system and refused to give any code to Taito. Fortunately the situation has cleared when Microprose bought three British Telecom's software labels and eventually got the rights to publish the game. (source: The One issue 15 (dec 1989).
Charts
Top UK ST charts position: 1 (6/1990, 7/1990, 8/1990), 3 (8/1992 budget)
Months on charts: 15 between 5/1990 - 11/1992
Months on charts: 15 between 5/1990 - 11/1992
BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (4)
ACE · September, 1989Rating: 934/1000
The One · August, 1989Rating: 94%
ST Format · April, 1990Rating: 93%
ST Review · June, 1992Rating: *****