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NEC PC-Engine/SuperGrafx => PC Engine/SuperGrafx Discussion => Topic started by: soop on July 03, 2012, 12:54:04 AM
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After a good few years, I've finally picked up Rainbow Islands for (what I consider) a decent price!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEC-PC-Engine-Super-CD-Rom-RAINBOW-ISLANDS-Japan-/271010436973?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f197b176d
I don't have too much money spare this month, but I didn't think I could pass this up. £30 is a saving of £20 on the cheapest I think I've seen over the past few years.
*edit* seems like there was another one that got reduced to a similar price http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rainbow-Islands-no-spine-NEC-PC-Engine-CD-Rom-Japan-/300670210791?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%C3%A9o_Consoles_Autres&hash=item46015752e7
But that's the most I've paid for a game in a while.
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good price. best port.
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good price. best port.
Definitely the best port. Although.... hah, I just bought this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00080FCTG/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00
Well, at least it has more than (supposedly arcade perfect) Rainbow Islands. Plotting and Bubble Bobble are certainly going to be worth the £4 price!
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If you like Taito Legends, you might want to hunt down Taito Legends 2. It's chock full of shewties. :)
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good price. best port.
Definitely the best port. Although.... hah, I just bought this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00080FCTG/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00
Well, at least it has more than (supposedly arcade perfect) Rainbow Islands.
this still can't be the best port, since it is missing the original somewhere over the rainbow theme.
PCE 1 : Taito arcade legends 0
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good price. best port.
The Sega Saturn version is in the auction too?
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Too bad the FM Towns didn't get the original Rainbow Islands. It did get a port of RI: Extra and it is truly perfect in every way, but I see no reason they couldn't have included the original as well. Extra is a lot of fun, but f*ck is it hard.
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Yeh a good buy, the PC Engine port of this is so awesome.
:D
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good price. best port.
The Sega Saturn version is in the auction too?
i dunno, is it?
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Man that is a good price, I got mine for 50ish from Game of Japan? or something on the lines of that after I got him down from $80 bucks. Anyway, congrats!
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i got mine too for about 50ih, several years ago. but it was at least in cibler ubermint condition :)
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Thats a pretty good price for eBay! I can buy that game for $30 any day of the week but with shipping and everything it would end up being around $50 in the end.
I also like the Mega Drive port with the weird Darius mode, but I'm just a sucker for the Mega Drive anyway.
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I don't know if I'll ever get this game, but I certainly want it. I have the PlayStation 1 Taito port as a consolation, though.
At least we have a lot of folks who appreciate Rainbow Islands... in other circles, I have heard folks call it "bland" (the blasphemy!) and anti-climatic.
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Congrats on getting a copy at a fair price. I need to get one myself someday.
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nice buy i had this back in the day and played it to death i really rate the pc engine port.
the bubble bobble series in general is class always wanted Parasol Stars.
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Nice score soop, this is on my wishlist. I'm a big bubble bobble series fan!
I also like the Mega Drive port with the weird Darius mode, but I'm just a sucker for the Mega Drive anyway.
What is this Darius mode you speak of???
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Me too. Now someone needs to hurry up and port Bubble Bobble over!
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Nice score soop, this is on my wishlist. I'm a big bubble bobble series fan!
I also like the Mega Drive port with the weird Darius mode, but I'm just a sucker for the Mega Drive anyway.
What is this Darius mode you speak of???
He's referring to Extra Mode. Though the Extra Mode in the MD version is a far cry from the real Extra Version Arcade game. It got a perfect port to the Towns/Marty though. :)
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Nice score soop, this is on my wishlist. I'm a big bubble bobble series fan!
I also like the Mega Drive port with the weird Darius mode, but I'm just a sucker for the Mega Drive anyway.
What is this Darius mode you speak of???
It's this weird mode where the music and enemies are replaced with songs and sprites from Darius. Pretty neat but I usually just play it in regular mode. It defaults to this Extra mode for some reason though.
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EXTRA Version plays the rearranges the islands, putting the Darius Island as the first. The original first island comes up later in the game. The main thing with Extra is that it's extremely hard.
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Too bad the FM Towns
Too bad indeed.............In another universe, this forum is 100% dedicated to FM towns, and the Atar Wii was made instead of the
upgrade for the AGCube
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EXTRA Version plays the rearranges the islands, putting the Darius Island as the first. The original first island comes up later in the game. The main thing with Extra is that it's extremely hard.
Oh, OK for some reason I thought the whole game was with the Darius enemies and such. I guess I never bothered to play that mode beyond a few levels and stuck with the regular mode.