Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands
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System(s): Sega Saturn | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: Acclaim | |||||||||||||||
Developer: Probe | |||||||||||||||
Developer(s) of original games: Taito | |||||||||||||||
Game total: 2 | |||||||||||||||
Genre: Compilation, Action | |||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-2 | |||||||||||||||
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Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands (commonly shortened to just Bubble Bobble & Rainbow Islands) is a compilation of both Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands, two popular arcade games developed by Taito in the 1980s and early 1990s. It was released for the Sega Saturn (alongside PlayStation and PC versions) in 1996.
Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands is a curiously named game as despite suggesting Bubble Bobble is the main focus of this compilation, it is actually Rainbow Islands which receives the most treatment. Rainbow Islands exists in two forms, a largely unaltered arcade conversion and an enhanced mode, which updates the graphics to take advantage of the larger colour palette. Both share the same musical score and gameplay.
Bubble Bobble takes cues from both these versions of Rainbow Islands, being a faithful arcade conversion with some very minor graphical changes, effectively just giving the characters some shading (as opposed to Rainbow Islands which replaces backgrounds too).
Neither version of Rainbow Islands is entirely true to its arcade roots, as the theme of its first stage has been altered to sound less like Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow", most likely due to legal concerns which arose as the game became more popular. This altered theme was used in previous conversions for the Nintendo Entertainment System (1991) and the Sega Master System (1993).
Promotional Material
- BBaFRI Saturn US PrintAdvert.jpg
US print advert
Physical Scans
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Based on 11 reviews |
Bubble Bobble/Rainbow Islands games for Sega systems |
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Bubble Bobble (1988) | Rainbow Islands Extra (1990) | Rainbow Islands (1993) | Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands (1996) | Bubble Symphony (1997) |
Puzzle Bobble/Bust-a-Move games for Sega systems |
Bust-A-Move (1996) | Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition (1996) | Bust-A-Move 3 (1997) | Bust-A-Move 4 (2000) | Azumanga Daioh Puzzle Bobble (2002) |
Unlicensed Bubble Bobble/Rainbow Islands games for Sega systems |
Super Bubble Bobble MD (1995) |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File:MeanMachinesSega48UK.pdf, page 60 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1996-09-25)
- ↑ Fun Generation, "10/96" (DE; 1996-09-11), page 68
- ↑ Joypad, "Septembre 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 81
- ↑ MAN!AC, "10/96" (DE; 1996-09-11), page 62
- ↑ Mega Fun, "11/96" (DE; 1996-10-16), page 59
- ↑ Player One, "Septembre 1996" (FR; 1996-08-29), page 114
- ↑ Sega Power, "November 1996" (UK; 1996-09-26), page 54
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "October 1996" (UK; 1996-09-18), page 74
- ↑ Total Saturn, "Volume One Issue Four" (UK; 1996-12-29), page 13
- ↑ Video Games, "9/96" (DE; 1996-08-28), page 92
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