Rainbow Islands (Amiga) - A Playguide and Review - by LemonAmiga.com
55Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2, is the sequel to the bubble blowing antics of Bubble Bobble. Now we face 7 islands and lots of spawning enemies. But is this game fun or just tricky?
Production Notes:
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Ripped: 11th Aug 2013
Started: 16th May 2014
Complete: 4th June 2014
Version: 3a
Rainbow Islands is another one of those games where lots of practice can make a lot of difference. As you can see, rather than practice this game I chose to go in cold after many years gap playing this to see if it still has that jump in appeal a retro gamer might hope for. As it turned out, my playing skills were not very good, but perhaps this is typical of this game, and so rather than try another rip I just edited what I had. I considered adding a section to show what it looks like when all the crystals are collected on a level and the big gem appears from the chest, but I had another go this week to do that but forgot to start the screen ripper; so that wasn't much use. I did get to the third island with one credit, but still not up to the third boss!
The edit was quite easy for this game as it was a short rip and there wasn't too many fancy things to play around with. The rainbow was of course in my intro anim already - which saved some time. I added the NO!!'s whenever I died after collecting the speed shoes; which got annoying; so I wouldn't necessarily recommend those. The Comparison Zone returns and again I got the rips from existing game footage already on youtube.