Rainbow Arts
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Video games industry |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Defunct | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Gütersloh, Germany |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Marc Ulrich (Founder) |
| Products | Turrican |
Rainbow Arts was a German video game developer founded in 1984 in Gütersloh by Marc Ulrich[1] which was later bought by Funsoft, and eventually absorbed by THQ in 1999. In the early 1990s most of the company's creative developers left to start their own development studios, such as Thomas Hertzler, who is now Managing Director of Blue-Byte, and Armin Gessert, who founded Spellbound Entertainment. Rainbow Arts arose from a split of a former software company, micro-partner, founded by Marc Ullrich, Thomas Meiertoberens and Rolf Lakaemper. Parallel to Ullrich creating RainbowArts, Meiertoberens/Lakaemper founded Magic Bytes, a game software company, also located in Gütersloh, NRW, Germany. Rainbow Arts and Magic Bytes can be seen as the first commercial German game software companies.
Games
Below is a list of games that Rainbow Arts published during the 1980s though 1990s:[2][3][4][5]
- Earthworm Jim (MS-DOS version - "Earthworm Jim 1 & 2: The Whole Can 'O Worms")
- 3001 O'Connor's Fight
- The Baby of Can Guru;;
- Bad Cat
- The Birds and the Bees II: Antics
- Bozuma
- Circus Attractions
- Conqueror
- Curse of RA
- Day of the Pharaoh
- Danger Freak
- Denaris
- Down at the Trolls
- East vs. West: Berlin 1948
- Future Tank
- Garrison
- Graffiti Man
- Grand Monster Slam
- The Great Giana Sisters
- Hard'n'Heavy
- Imperium Romanum
- In 80 Days Around the World
- Jinks
- Katakis
- Khalaan
- Logical
- Lollypop
- Mr. Pingo
- Money Molch
- M.U.D.S. – Mean Ugly Dirty Sport
- Mad TV
- Madness
- Masterblazer Sequel to Lucasfilm's Ballblazer
- Mystery of the Mummy
- Nibbler
- Oxxonian
- Rock'n Roll
- R-Type
- Rendering Ranger: R2
- Soldier
- Spherical
- Starball
- StarTrash
- Street Gang
- Sunny Shine
- To be on Top
- Turrican
- Turrican II: The Final Fight
- Turrican 3: Payment Day
- Time
- The Volleyball Simulator
- Warriors
- X-Out
- Z-Out