Rainbow Islands - Taito's unusual Bubble Bobble follow up - Sega Master System
1I hope you are all happy, safe & healthy whatever challenges you are facing right now.
Capture challenges. i had some issues with my capture card but those are mostly now sorted.
While I was trying to sort my capture card I ended up using an alternate solution & while capturing New Zealand Story & Chase HQ on Master System had to come up with an alternate approach as neither works well at 60 Hz (New Zealand Story plays way too fast including its music & Chase HQ the road graphics glitch like crazy). So I had to improvise a bit in order to capture from real hardware - in this case my PAL Sega MultiMega. Capture cards don't seem to play nicely with 50Hz although I got there in the end through the use of an OSSC. This is why these three videos look a little different - I've tried to crop all the overscan etc too.
Normal service should resume shortly!
Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
00:12 Game Intro
00:24 World 1x1
02:19 World 1x2
04:25 World 1x3
05:50 World 1x4
06:42 Attack - SPIDEY
07:42 World 2x1
09:42 World 2x2
This is Rainbow Islands on Sega Master System. This was a port of Taito's arcade hi & is part of the Bubble Bobble franchise. This time Bub & Bob have been turned into human form & use Rainbows as both platforms & as a weapon. Dropping the rainbows will allow you to collect 7 coloured diamonds resulting in collecting the big diamond upon defeating the boss then allowing a choice of treasure or talking. It also allows the true ending etc
The port to Master System is outstanding with colourful graphics, faithful gameplay & more from the arcade although sadly it loses the two player option making it a single player only experience.. With tons of levels & secrets to find & that "one more go" factor this is a brilliant game & a fantastic port. Taito really were on a roll at the time!
This is my original PAL copy from back in the day played through a Powerbase convertor on my PAL MultiMega through a OSSC for ease of capture. I have Rainbow Islands as well as some other Taito arcade ports I'll be showing soon.
As always if you enjoy this video let me know. As always this is running on original hardware. Also let me know if there are particular games or systems you'd like to see.
As always this is uploaded under the Fair Use Policy - no money is being made from this video.
Stay strong, stay safe and stay healthy - Grey Fox