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RAINBOW ISLANDS



PUBLISHER

Ocean



AUTHOR

Graftgold



YEAR

1989



CATEGORY

Arcade Conversion, Platform



DESCRIPTION

Cute and colourful platform romp through 28 levels.



CONTROLS

Keyboard, Kempston, Sinclair.



INSTRUCTIONS

Upon returning home at the end of Bubble Bobble, Bub finds that

his home has been taken over by an evil dragon and his minions!

Bub must use the power of the rainbow to collect the diamonds

from each of the Rainbow Islands and destroy the evil for good!



You control Bub and must make your way from the bottom of each

level to the top, utilising the platforms. You can collect fruit

for extra points, and there are various items which you can pick

up to help you out. Nasties are everywhere, but luckily you are

armed with an infinite supply of rainbows! Pressing fire makes

a rainbow grow in the direction you are facing. If a rainbow hits

a bad-guy, he dies! Alternatively, you can build rainbows over

the baddies and then jump onto the rainbow to smash it, and the

bad guy will be killed by falling pieces of colour!  Killing bad

guys by smashing rainbows on top of them makes them release a

diamond, and collecting a diamond in each colour of the rainbow

is the task for every island.



Your rainbow power can be increased by picking up pots. Red pots

make you fire multiple rainbows (up to 3) and yellow pots make

your rainbows grow faster! Running shoes make you move more

quickly, and there are many other assorted power-ups which you

will learn to use.



Each island is comprised of four levels. At the end of these, you

will meet the island boss who must be dispatched before you can

continue to the next island! Be sure not to hang around too long

on any of the levels, though, as if you take too much time the

island will begin to sink into the sea and Bub CAN'T SWIM!





INLAY CARD TEXT





CHEATS

None known....



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

Bubble Bobble, released on the Speccy by Firebird, was the

prequel to Rainbow Islands. A great conversion of the coin-op!



Parasol Stars is the sequel to Rainbow Islands, but was never

released on the Spectrum. You can get it for the 16-bit computers

and a few consoles.



SCORES RECEIVED

Excellent scores, as far as I remember....



URL

ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair/snaps/games/by-letter/r/rai

nbow.zip 128k only though, I'm afraid!



GENERAL FACTS

This game is PACKED with secrets. Try collecting the diamonds in

order - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet and you

get a secret door when you face the end of Island baddie!



To really enjoy this, play the 128k version. Great music and no

annoying multiload!



NOTES

A BRILLIANT conversion of an arcade classic. Only the blocky

end-of-level bad guys let this game down, but you can put up with

that.... Speccy arcade conversions don't get any better than

this.  What more could we expect from Graftgold.

