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Rainbow Arts is a
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game developer company founded in 1984 in
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by Marc Ulrich which was later bought by Funsoft, and eventually absorbed by
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in 1999. In the early 90's most of the company's creative drive left to start their own development studios; Thomas Hertzler, who is now MD of
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, and
Armin GessertArmin Gessert is a computer game developer from Germany. He is one of the developers behind the computer game The Great Giana Sisters. His previous employers include the labels Rainbow Arts and Blue Byte....
, who has recently formed Spellbound.
Games
Here is a list of games that Rainbow Arts published during the 1980s though 1990s:
- 3001 O'Connor's Fight
- Antics
- The Baby of Can Guru
- Bad Cat
- Berlin 1948
- Bozuma
- Circus Attractions
- Curse of RA
- Danger Freak
- Denaris
- Down at the Trolls
- Future Tank
- Garrison
- Graffiti Man
- Grand Monster Slam
Grand Monster Slam is a computer game for the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST and PC. In Amiga Power's first All Time Top One Hundred in the inaugural 'Issue 0', it was declared to be the 100th best Amiga game of all time...
- The Great Giana Sisters
- Hard 'n Heavy
- In 80 Days Around the World
- Jinks
- Katakis
Katakis is a side scrolling shooter style arcade game developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts in 1987, and converted to the Commodore Amiga by Factor 5 in 1988. It was re-released as Denaris in 1989.-Introductory plot:...
- Logical
- M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport
M.U.D.S. - Mean Ugly Dirty Sport is a videogame of a sport similar to rugby played by multiple races in a fantasy scenario.The game was produced by Golden Goblins and published by Rainbow Arts in 1990 for Amiga and DOS platforms...
- Mad TV
Mad TV is a television station management simulation computer game produced in 1991 by Rainbow Arts. The game puts the player in the role of a new program director for a TV station...
- Madness
- Masterblazer (The Sequel to Lucasfilm's Ballblazer)
- Mystery of the Mummy
Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of the Mummy is a graphical adventure game for Windows, developed by Frogwares and first released in 2002. The player controls Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's renowned inspector Sherlock Holmes, investigating the mysteriously abandoned mansion of British archeologist, Lord...
- Oxxonian
- Rock'n Roll
Rock 'n' Roll is a computer game for the Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, published by Rainbow Arts in 1989.Rock 'n' Roll is an action-oriented puzzle game with 32 levels...
- R-Type
is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named "Arrowhead" to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien life-form known as "Bydo", which was later discovered to be not entirely alien in origin...
- Soldier
- Spherical
- Starball
- StarTrash
- Street Gang
- Sunny Shine
- To be on Top
- Turrican
Turrican is a 1989 video game programmed and designed by Manfred Trenz. It was first developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, but was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz personally programmed Turrican on the Commodore 64...
- Turrican II: The Final Fight
- Turrican 3: Payment Day
Mega Turrican is a 16-bit shooter game, developed by Factor 5 in 1993 and marketed by Data East in 1994. This game of the Turrican series was initially designed for the Mega Drive/Genesis, and later followed by an Amiga port under the title of Turrican 3: Payment Day...
- The Volleyball Simulator
- Warriors
- X-Out
X-Out is a video game released by Rainbow Arts in 1989 for the Commodore 64 and in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.-Gameplay:X-Out is a horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up with eight levels and an underwater setting....
- Z-Out
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