Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby Sir Arthur on Mon May 31, 2010 9:54 am

With out any doubt it has to be the Amiga 500 & PS1 version.
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby thevulture on Mon May 31, 2010 12:41 pm

Softspot for the C64 version, Chunky sprites n all, 1st version i played.Best?Had to be the PS1 ver.espically liked new backdrop version on the twin pack.
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby khisanth on Mon May 31, 2010 5:22 pm

It has to be the Amstrad version! The graphics are spot on, music is fine and the gameplay is great!
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby gmintyfresh on Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:38 pm

Another vote for the CPC version, not only does it look the business but it plays so well. It's just technically so impressive, the most accurate conversion has to be the Megadrive.
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby Dizrythmia on Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:30 am

I grew up with the Amstrad version. Not only was it a graphical masterpiece for the machine, but unlike other conversions the difficulty was just right.
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby BellyFullOfHell on Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:54 pm

I think the C64 version was one of the machine's last great conversions, looked lovely but, more importantly, played like a dream.
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby Sepp Salerno on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:06 am

Fogot all about the C64 version. I used to py thatloads as well. s a prety decent port considering
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby Andy_2_cool on Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:47 pm

Amiga!
Just listen to that theme: Ahhh happy times ^_^
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby Pinhead7 on Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:33 pm

This is a toughie, but as I have played the speccy version more as a kid then I would have to say the Speccy.
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby Budly Moore on Sun May 29, 2011 10:04 pm

The Amstrad version was pretty tight though most of the magic was lost with a green monitor. Ps1 was the definative conversion.
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Re: Rainbow Islands - Best Conversion

Postby ulala on Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:46 pm

C64 every time

Not just one of the best conversions, one of the best games ever on the system (if not the best)
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