Publisher Ziggurat Interactive announced that it had agreed to acquire more than 80 retro games from Rainbow Art. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Rainbow Arts was a well-known and prominent video game company in the 1980s and 1990s.
Marc Ullrich and Thomas Meiertoberens started Rainbow Arts in 1984 from Germany. Some of the best-selling Rainbow Arts titles include Rendering Ranger: R2 (Targa in North America), MUDS – Mean Ugly Dirty Sport, Lollypop, Logical, and X-Out.
“We are incredibly pleased to add a number of significant games from Rainbow Arts to Ziggurat’s growing list of historic games,” said Michael Devine, S.V.P. of Business Development at Ziggurat Interactive. “Rainbow Arts was a premiere and iconic European video game publisher of the ’80s and ’90s. Each game released during that time frame – mainly made for the C64, Amiga, and PC – evokes memories of 16-bit wonders, colorful graphics, and playful challenges the second you see the rainbow logo appear. We can’t wait to revitalize these games and share them with today’s classic gaming fans.”
Most of the company’s games were originally released on the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga consoles. That said, subsequent titles were designed for, or converted to, the IBM PC platform.
Rainbow Arts’ most famous title, Rendering Ranger: R2, is one of the most sought-after Super Famicom games because just 10,000 copies were produced and only available in Japan.
Another classic shoot-them-up game is X-Out, which was extremely popular on British 8-bit and 16-bit consoles.
Ziggurat has announced that it will update its plans for Rendering Ranger: R2 later this spring as part of the agreement. In addition, the publisher has also committed to adding Rendering Ranger R2 to its extensive library.
In other acquisition news, Team17, a video game publisher based in the United Kingdom, revealed that it had bought German developer and publisher Astragon Entertainment for $114.6 million (€100 million).
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