Commodore 64 Rainbow Arts Games In Order Of Greatness

[@r.scheuer8044]

Thank you. Brought back some fond memories.

[@oldstylegaming]

Thanks for the suggestion it was a great subject :-)

[@teddym2808]

The parallax on that stunt danger game was mind blowing for the C64. Seriously.

[@davemeredith6964]

Good to see your videos. Remember the C64 and especially the SID chip. It was the SID chip that played it's part in me becoming a game music fan and discovering Huelsbeck, ,Gray,Tel, Dalglish, Furniss and many others... Also inspired me to create and compose as a boy. I also reached a life dream to be on a soundtrack CD with Chris Huelsbeck for HU-Cast games Redux and also even better to have a Huelsbeck track on one of my recent soundtrack albums...now that was special...nice guy too. Keep up these great videos...

[@GlenLehane]

I hadn't heard of half these games, but yeah, the ones near the top were awesome. Even my 8 year old son was impressed by both Turrican games!

[@loganjorgensen]

Pretty good pixel artists over there, think they took the "rainbow" to heart and tried to use all 16 colours as much as possible lol. Not always my favorite genres but they did a pretty good job most of the time. Saw some games I should try but I guess Turrican 1&2 is probably my favorites. :D

[@raggeragnar]

My , oh my , the hours spent on StarTrash. Also , the Turrican games was one of the best on game-parties in the sweet youth. It’s STILL good. A classic duo.

[@8_Bit]

Hah, funny that Dolly Parton showed up in one of these games after being in that unofficial "A-Z C64 Gems" video I made! And I had no idea Hard'n'Heavy was originally going to be Giana 2!

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah I knew it was the same engine as Giana Sisters but i too never knew that until researching stuff for another video im doing on copyright claims

[@scality4309]

And i thought that i knew my games.. only knew 7 or 8 out of this list. Great video.

[@RyanDanielG]

I don't know why, but seeing the 1000th game (Bad Cat) with horrible jumping made my 'just woke up' brain wonder why so many early games have such horrid jumping in them. I started studying programming about 5 months ago. Is making something jump THAT hard? Somehow I ended up reading what seems to be an entire thesis written by Jason Begy, some guy at MIT (or Cambridge? or both?), on jumping in video games... Coffee.. it's a hell of a drug.

[@purplehaze2342]

Rainbow arts now there's a blast from the past

[@Retro_B8]

Awesome video mate, I absolutely loved rainbow arts, I never ever realised some of the avoidathons were from them!! Garrison looks great as does logical, spherical I’ve just played, it’s awesome. Totally agree with turrican 2, it’s just the C64 at its absolute best!

[@8589brian]

Great video. Rainbow Arts are often criminally over 👍

[@THEHEND1]

Another great upload! Some awesome games at the top there!

[@oldstylegaming]

Glad you like them!

[@THEHEND1]

@@oldstylegamingI really love that you introduce me to C64 games I've not come across before, even the mediocre ones have their good points. As regards Turrican 2 as No1, that is a technical tour de force on the c64 which arguably has yet to be matched by any thing released since. An action and exploratory, mulitdirectional scrolling work or Art! Its certainly inspiring.

[@oldstylegaming]

@@THEHEND1 true that mate

[@Lucasrainford]

I consider myself a C64 fan so was suprised that apart from the obvious ones at the top I ain't heard of any of these games! I played Garrison on the Amiga and that's it! Are most of these obscure ones or was they released later in the C64's life? I noticed you didn't add the release dates in this one....Great list dude :)

[@em00k]

The Badcat music is awesome. I heard it first on my Amiga when someone had done a mod conversion. Really rough around the edges but you come to love its craziness.

[@oldstylegaming]

Yeah the majority of the music in this list is top class, gameplay not so good for like 50% of the games

[@menhirmike]

I remember playing so many of them, including some which names I forgot completely! I'm with you on Danger Freak: I liked that game a lot as a kid, and now I realize that it had flaws. Same for Bad Cat, Street Gang, and StarTrash. Though if you were making a ranking of the cover art instead of the actual games, StarTrash would be near the top, that front art is amazing!

[@robchissy]

i loved x-out, but i didn't like the ship looking like a flee as i have a fear of any creature with more than 4 legs, but turrican 1,2 and 3 were my favourite games on the amiga never played the turrican games on the 64

[@oldstylegaming]

Its good on the c64 mate. Trenz says its the best

[@krissymarklewis1793]

@@oldstylegaming I only played Z-Out on the Amiga and that was brilliant.

[@tyrantabyss]

Grand Monster Slam reminds me of and old forgotten arcade classic: Penguin Wars (aka Penguin Kun Wars)

[@kodiak64]

X-Out was spoiled with its loading system, if I recall. Turrican 1 + 2, I always liked, although (due to the C64's limitations) he took some coding shortcuts with effects that grate with me, but still, superb games overall.

[@krissymarklewis1793]

I wished they released the Turrican collection on PC as using UP to jump on a gamepad makes the Amiga versions unplayable.

[@armorgeddon]

@@krissymarklewis1793 Gamepad? Those games need to be played with a joystick and that way they'll feel great.

[@krissymarklewis1793]

Awesome, I love these kinda vids.

[@bjrnen8505]

The Baby of Can Guru... I thought back to I game back from the 90s. I think. It was called Kangarudy (that might not be the game at all) where you played as a kangaroo on the back of a lorry and you'd better not fall of. Haha. I have to find that again and have a go.

[@ColossalCrib]

Turrican had music in level 3. Some of the best ever

[@ksauerrr]

I always liked the Giana Sisters game. Sure it was the Super Mario Bros ripoff, but in my opinion it had a fantastic music score (better than the NES SMB) which gave it a different, darker tone.

[@robvegas9354]

I would not want to knock Turricans drink over at the bar. he was hard core!!! great games those!!

[@markduchey8785]

He was armed to the teeth

[@alancheatley4378]

You could listen to the Turrican soundtrack in the menu, we would just play the tracks when we didnt play the game

[@oldstylegaming]

I do the same with lotus 2 on amiga now

[@damirko06]

Great video with amazing games. I had nearly all of them. There were two logos back then, that immediately kept my attention: Rainbow Arts and Ocean. Seen one of these, and i was in. Btw, you need a lil change in your description. In the last sentence you're announcing Electronic Arts... 🤫

[@oldstylegaming]

Hahaha ive changed it now, ikept on saying electronic arts when i was doing the voice over :-)

[@666Astrosmurf]

How come the dudes in to be on top and Street gang wears no trousers? Sadly I never played Turrican on my c64 and on Amiga I found it a little bit too hard. On this list Id say Giana Sisters was the one I played the most.

[@chrisrobson8540]

never played any of them back in the day .......defo worth a look at some of the top games though......thanks

[@bluetopia42]

I nearly wanted to say that you forgot Mad TV, but this game didn't appear on the C64.

[@krissymarklewis1793]

Huesbeck is the Alan Silvestri, Danny Elman,Jerry Goldsmith of video games.

[@krissymarklewis1793]

I thought Rock n Roll was by him?

[@Fox8ball.]

Yo OSG my man excellent video. Turrican is a mega game. I may be talking from my ass here but was there a Turok on C64 or maybe amiga 😆

[@ProBloggerWorld]

Yep, Bad Cat really disappointed. Only with a trainer option from a crack it was some fun.

[@prd2bevgy]

Wow I love C64 and just so happens I got my system back up and running (needed a new drive) but I’ve never heard of any of these.. guess that’s kinda a good thing..I think Epyx makes up most of the games I own.

[@oldstylegaming]

You never heard of the Turrican games?

[@prd2bevgy]

@@oldstylegaming can’t say I have, probably cuz I’m mostly into sports, tv and game show themed games

[@daikyu3519]

Its Katakis, no doubt!

[@basvanharen2904]

👍🏻😁👍🏻😁👍🏻😁👍🏻😁 Katakis has a multiplayer mode right? never got it to work😬

[@oldstylegaming]

F1 for one player, F2 for 2 players (taking turns) , F3 for 2 players co-op (same time)

[@glennmk5167]

Nailed the games in my eyes 👍

[@fulgenzio1973]

The top ten is almost obligatory, one of the best developers for 64, although Epyx and System 3 were better.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

i like these developer focused vids, gives an outsider like me a good view of what developers to watch out for and which to avoid.

[@oldstylegaming]

Rainbow Arts made some crap as well as you can see but they more than made up for that with the Turricans

[@UltimateGamerCC]

@@oldstylegaming much like Square made up for their NES botch-ups with Final Fantasy.

[@SteveMacSticky]

What accent do you have? Glaswegian?

[@sidtandy4333]

Thanks for cool list of games! I'm suprise however of your praise of Denaris/Katakis. Sure, it an impressive game but the boss fights are totally crap and it suffers a bit from too many levels-syndrome. X-out, while not being as inmpressive in terms of graphics, manage to do way better in terms of gameplay.

[@Simon0]

TURRICAN!!!

[@clauscombat418]

Why is all the game footage looking so overexposed bright? Oh, it's the terrible scanlines. I thought those were a thing of the past?

[@patsfan4life]

Atari 2600 Volleyball > R.A. Volleyball Simulator 😎

[@SuperJim]

Is it wrong that aside from the obvious Turrican / Giana etc games one of the only other ones I've played was f%&*^$g Bad Cat? Probably why I'd always curl up and die a little seeing their logo 😁

[@oldstylegaming]

...yeah bad... get katakis played now

[@gullpayne]

Good game there ✅

[@robchissy]

where?

[@hoagieimpact9189]

R-Type is missing on this ranking.

[@oldstylegaming]

R-Type wasnt Published by Rainbow Arts on the C64. It was developed by them but thats a longs story that ended up in court

[@hoagieimpact9189]

@@oldstylegaming "Developed by" is sometimes more important than "Published by", but still a great list. Garrison was a great Gauntlet clone, Spherical was a beautiful twist on Solomon's Key, and Madness was a cool simple platformer. It's nice you included them high up there with Turrican, Giana Sisters, and X-Out. Jinks was also a nice Arkanoid inspired game that could have been great. Also, you can't say Hard 'n' Heavy is a rip off when the game it is based on is made by the same developers. You can't rip off yourself, can you? Giana Sisters on the other hand...

[@oldstylegaming]

@@hoagieimpact9189 yeah it is important but when i do these kind of videos i have to stick to published by or it would become a shit show haha.

[@ITGuyinaction]

😎👍🤓

[@scottbreon9448]

Chris Hülsbeck not only did the music for Antics he was also one of the coders, no offense, Chris but coding was not your forte

[@oldstylegaming]

yeah stick to your day job Chris and bang the tunes out

[@DeNappa]

* mentions Graffiti man sucks but has a cool graffiti section * doesn't show said graffiti section :o