Rob Plays "Rainbow Islands" (C64)

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Published on April 3, 2014 9:00:01 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPBuYFSqi5g

Game:

Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (1987)

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Let's Play

Duration: 9:09

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A brief play (with review/commentary) of the C64 conversion of Rainbow Islands, handled by Graftgold & released by Ocean in 1990. This gameplay footage was captured under emulation with VICE 2.4 running on Mac OS X.

I should admit that I'm rather rubbish at this - mainly as I never really played this version of it back in the day (and only the Amiga one on one or two occasions). However, don't let that discount it, as it's a darn solid conversion (as you'd expect with Graftgold behind it).

I'm also impressed with the various little secrets for points scoring, such as the bonus gems, amongst others. It's certainly a cool way to get repeat play (in order to maximise your scores), though the decision to use an arcade style credit system is annoying, but at least you don't need super-human reaction skills to continue on a game over (unlike Bubble Bobble) :)

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