Rainbow Arts Software GmbH was a German

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based in

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the region of Ostwestfalen-Lippe and the administrative region of Detmold (administrative region), Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a Gütersloh (distric ...

. The company was founded in 1984 by Marc Ullrich and Thomas Meiertoberens and acquired by Rushware in 1986. The company's decline began in the early 1990s: The distributor did not manage to cover the costs of selling the titles worldwide, while development costs were constantly rising. The Rainbow Arts name lost its notoriety since then. The parent companies Rushware and Softgold were in turn bought up by the American games manufacturer THQ in 1999. In 1999, Funsoft Holding, which acquired Rushware and sister company Softgold in 1992, sold Rushware to THQ, which was incorporated into THQ Deutschland, THQ's German operations arm. Rainbow Arts also led one of the first lawsuits in 1993 on the question whether competition exists between a software company and a bulletin board system of similar name ("Rainbow BBS") operated by a student, so that claims under trademark law are enforceable. This was confirmed by the Munich District Court. In January 2022, Ziggurat Interactive acquired more than 80 titles from Rainbow Arts.

Games

* ''3001 O'Connor's Fight'' * ''Apprentice'' * ''The Baby of Can Guru'' * ''Bad Cat'' * '' Black Gold'' * ''Der Blaue Kristall'' * '' Blockout'' (Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS) * ''Bozuma'' * ''Circus Attractions'' * ''Claim to Power'' * '' Conqueror'' * ''The Curse of RA'' * ''Day of the Pharaoh'' * ''Danger Freak'' * '' Denaris'' * ''Down at the Trolls'' * ''

Earthworm Jim ''Earthworm Jim'' is a series of platform games featuring an earthworm named Jim who wears a robotic suit and battles the forces of evil. The series is noted for its platforming and shooting gameplay, surreal humor, and edgy art style. Four game ...

'' (MS-DOS) * '' Earthworm Jim 2'' (MS-DOS) * '' East vs. West: Berlin 1948'' * ''Future Tank'' * ''Flies: Attack on Earth'' * ''Garrison'' * ''Garrison II: The Legend Continues'' * ''Graffiti Man'' * '' Grand Monster Slam'' * '' The Great Giana Sisters'' * ''Hard'n'Heavy'' * ''Hurra Deutschland'' * ''Imperium Romanum'' * ''In 80 Days Around the World'' * ''Jinks'' * '' Katakis'' * ''Khalaan'' * '' Legend of Faerghail'' * ''Logical'' * '' Lollypop'' * ''Mr. Pingo'' * ''Money Molch'' * ''M.U.D.S. – Mean Ugly Dirty Sport'' * ''

Mad TV ''Mad TV'' (stylized as ''MADtv'') is an American sketch comedy television series created by David Salzman, Fax Bahr, and Adam Small. Loosely based on the humor magazine '' Mad'', ''Mad TVs pre-taped satirical sketches were primarily parodie ...

'' * ''Madness'' * '' Masterblazer'' * '' Mystery of the Mummy'' * '' Nibbler'' (Amstrad CPC) * ''Oxxonian'' * '' Galactic Attack'' (Windows) * ''Realm of the Trolls'' * '' Rock'n Roll'' * ''

R-Type is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade video game developed and released by Irem in 1987 and the first game in the ''R-Type'' series. The player controls a star ship, the R-9 "Arrowhead", in its efforts to destroy the Bydo, a powerful a ...

'' (Commodore 64) * '' Rendering Ranger: R2'' * ''Sarcophaser'' * '' Shufflepuck Café'' (Amiga, MS-DOS) * ''Sky Fighter'' * ''Soldier'' * ''Spaceball'' * ''

Spherical A sphere (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ) is a surface (mathematics), surface analogous to the circle, a curve. In solid geometry, a sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three ...

'' * ''St. Thomas'' * ''Starball'' * ''StarTrash'' * ''Street Cat'' * ''Sunny Shine on the Funny Side of Life'' * ''Thunder Boy'' * ''To Be on Top'' * ''

Turrican ''Turrican'' is a 1990 video game developed by Manfred Trenz. It was developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, and was Video game port, ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz programmed ' ...

'' * '' Turrican II: The Final Fight'' * '' Turrican 3: Payment Day'' * ''Time'' * ''Vision: The 5 Dimension Utopia'' * ''Volleyball Simulator'' * ''Warriors'' * '' X-Out'' * ''

Z-Out ''Z-Out'' is a horizontally scrolling shooter released for the Amiga and Atari ST Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's Atari 8-bit computers, 8-bit computers. The initial model, ...

References

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