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After all the legal battles and general confusion as to exactly who was to convert this sequel to Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands has finally fallen into the hands of Ocean, who are now definitely releasing it.

Baron von Blubba has kidnapped all the inhabitants of the seven islands and has replaced them with his own henchmen. As Bub, hero of Bubble Bobble and now in human form, your task is to reach the top of each of the islands before they sink into the ocean, and finally reach the last island and rescue the hostages. As well as the usual directional and jump controls, Bub also has the use of a magic rainbow which he can use as either a bridge to climb across to firmer footing, or as a weapon with which to trap and crush the nasties.

Rainbow Islands is a fantastic game (in fact, looking back we think we underrated it on the ST) and these new versions are simply staggering. Rainbow Islands is going to be *the* game of 1990 - and if it isn't, we'll gladly eat our words!!

Practically arcade perfect, Amiga Rainbow Islands is an outstanding platform game which you'd be an absolute twerp to miss out on.

This conversion is awesome, containing all the best bits of the coin-op and some startling graphics and sound to boot!

Highly colourful, devoid of attribute problems and easily as playable as the others, Spectrum owners will have to go a long way to find a better coin-op conversion than Rainbow Islands.