Rainbow Islands heads Nintendo updates

By Tom Bramwell Published 8 May, 2009

One for WiiWare, one VC, one DSi.

Nintendo has updated its various online shops with three new games across WiiWare, Virtual Console and DSiWare.

Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure is today's WiiWare offering, sliding in at 800 Wii Points (GBP 6 / EUR 8 approx), and the idea - as is traditional - is to make it to the top of some very tall stages by making rainbows.

Also for Wii there's the sole Virtual Console offering, Fantasy Zone II for Master System (500 Wii Points - GBP 3.50 / EUR 5 approx), which is a side-scrolling shooter with amazingly bright and happy graphics.

Finally, there's A Little Bit of... Magic Made Fun: Deep Psyche for DSi (200 DSi Points - GBP 1.50 / EUR 2 approx), which takes another magic trick out of the Magic Made Fun DS game and makes slightly more of it.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Senate #1 3 years ago

    oh dear!

  • superted1974 #2 3 years ago

    :-(

    Still no piolotwings

  • GamesConnoisseur #3 3 years ago

    ho hum

  • layleeloo #4 3 years ago

    Rainbow Islands is cool!!! Well, the original was on the ST and Amiga. The DS version was pants so if its the old faithfull I will be happy with that.

  • ruttyboy #5 3 years ago

    I had Fantasy Zone on the Master System, it was rock hard.

  • LazyDan #6 3 years ago

    Rainbow Islands news in 2009 :'( I'm so happy, I love the original so so so much. A much more varied and deep platformer than the original Mario Bros. was - sadly it started and ended with the one game. I'd love to see how it would've developed through the 16bit era and beyond with someone like Nintendo developing it.

    Unfortunately they didn't though, so this the absolute abortion-tastic, gashmunt WiiWare 'sequel' made by Dickware Interactive or whoever. PUT THE ARCADE VERSION ON THE VIRTUAL CONSOLE D:

    Edited by LazyDan at 08/05/09 @ 11:03

  • Ryze #7 3 years ago

    MS - I'd love MS to go get the original Rainbow Islands and have Taito do an HD update.

  • Fletche #8 3 years ago

    May have to purchase Rainbow Islands, never did complete it on the Amiga, now we just need a remake of Rodlands, The original Bubble Bobble and the superior to Rainbow Islands, the follow up Parasol Stars!

  • mrpsb #9 3 years ago

    Parasol Stars superior to Rainbow Islands? No.

    It should be made the law that any remake of Rainbow Islands has to include a perfect conversion of the original, I'm getting sick of arrogant developers thinking they can improve on the design of something that is perfection.

    Maybe they'll release a cash-in 25th Anniversary version including the original. Then again, the history of modern Rainbow Islands games suggests it'll have everything but the original.

  • Razorus #10 3 years ago

    No Memo Thingy for DSi?

  • bealios #11 3 years ago

    I've just started playing this (Rainbow Islands) again through WinUAE - its is genuinely fantastic. I've just figured out how to get the secret door to open on each boss this weekend!