Rainbow Arts is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 game developer company founded in 1984 in Gütersloh

Gütersloh

Gütersloh is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 96,320 people.- Geography :...

 by Marc Ulrich which was later bought by Funsoft, and eventually absorbed by THQ

THQ

THQ Inc. is an American developer and publisher of video games. Founded in 1989 in the United States, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices...

 in 1999. In the early 1990s most of the company's creative drive left to start their own development studios; Thomas Hertzler, who is now MD of Blue-Byte

Blue Byte Software

Ubisoft Blue Byte is a video game developer based in Düsseldorf, Germany, founded in 1988. The company has produced popular titles like Battle Isle and The Settlers. In 2001, the company was purchased by Ubisoft.-History:...

, and Armin Gessert

Armin Gessert

Armin Gessert was a computer game developer from Germany. Along with Manfred Trenz and Chris Hülsbeck, he was one of the developers behind the computer game The Great Giana Sisters for Commodore 64...

, who founded Spellbound Entertainment

Spellbound Entertainment

Spellbound is a German developer of computer games based in Kehl, Germany. The company was founded in 1994 by Armin Gessert. The company is best known for the Desperados Series....

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Games

Here is a list of games that Rainbow Arts published during the 1980s though 1990s:

• 3001 O'Connor's Fight
• The Baby of Can Guru
• Bad Cat
• The Birds and the Bees II: Antics
• Bozuma
• Circus Attractions
• Curse of RA
• Danger Freak
• Denaris
• Down at the Trolls
• East vs. West: Berlin 1948
  East vs. West: Berlin 1948
  East vs. West: Berlin 1948 is an adventure game developed by Time Warp Productions in 1989. The game is noted for its use of an Audio cassette to supplement the soundtrack. It was also unique in its top-down perspective that gives the a player a bird's eye view of the action.- Gameplay :Berlin 1948...
  
  
• Future Tank
• Garrison
• Graffiti Man
• Grand Monster Slam
  Grand Monster Slam
  Grand Monster Slam is a computer game for the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari ST and PC. It is heavily based on the 1985 arcade game Penguin Wars. 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
• Imperium Romanum
• In 80 Days Around the World
• Jinks
• Katakis
  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
• Lollypop
• M.U.D.S. – Mean Ugly Dirty Sport
• Mad TV
• Madness
• Masterblazer
  Masterblazer
  Masterblazer is a 1990 computer game developed by Rainbow Arts and published by LucasArts.It is the sequel and remake of the 1984 game Ballblazer. Played out like a futuristic sport, the playing field is a large rectangle made out of squares. A Plasmorb ball must be moved into a goal as many times...
  
   Sequel to Lucasfilm's Ballblazer
• Mystery of the Mummy
  Mystery of the Mummy
  Sherlock Holmes: Mystery of the Mummy is an adventure game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Frogwares and released in 2002. The player controls Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's renowned detective Sherlock Holmes, investigating the mysteriously abandoned mansion of British archeologist, Lord...
  
  
• Oxxonian
• Rock'n Roll
• R-Type
  R-Type
  is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named R-9a "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...
  
  
• Rendering Ranger R²
• Soldier
• Spherical
• Starball
• StarTrash
• Street Gang
• Sunny Shine
• To be on Top
• Turrican
  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
  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
• Z-Out
  Z-Out
  Z-Out is a 1990 side-scrolling shoot 'em up released for the Amiga and Atari ST by Rainbow Arts. It is the sequel to X-Out. Unlike its predecessor, the game features a co-operative two-player component. While its critical reception was positive—particular praise went to its graphics—many reviewers...
  
  

External links

• THQ official website