Rainbow Arts

Founded By:Marc Ulrich
Location:Gütersloh, Germany
Year Started:1984
Year Wound Up:1999
Titles in Database:71
Rights Now With:THQ
Rainbow Arts is a German game developer company founded in 1984 in Gütersloh by Marc Ulrich which was later bought by Funsoft, and eventually absorbed by THQ in 1999. In the early 1990s most of the company\\\'s creative drive left to start their own development studios; Thomas Hertzler, who is now MD of Blue-Byte, and Armin Gessert, who founded Spellbound Entertainment.

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Company History


Added: 21 May 2013
The parent company of Rainbow Arts Software GmbH was called Softgold.

Marc Ulrich, founder of Rainbow Arts, started the company while he was still at school. By the time he was 17 he had three employees.


Softography


Added: 21 May 2013
Here is a list of games that Rainbow Arts published during the 1980s though 1990s:

3001 O'Connor's Fight
The Baby of Can Guru
Bad Cat
The Birds and the Bees II: Antics
Bozuma
Circus Attractions
Conqueror
Curse of RA
Danger Freak
Denaris
Down at the Trolls
East vs. West: Berlin 1948
Future Tank
Garrison
Graffiti Man
Grand Monster Slam
The Great Giana Sisters
Hard 'n Heavy
Imperium Romanum
In 80 Days Around the World
Jinks
Katakis
Logical
Lollypop
M.U.D.S. – Mean Ugly Dirty Sport
Mad TV
Madness
Masterblazer Sequel to Lucasfilm's Ballblazer
Mystery of the Mummy
Oxxonian
Rock'n Roll
R-Type
Rendering Ranger R²
Soldier
Spherical
Starball
StarTrash
Street Gang
Sunny Shine
To be on Top
Turrican
Turrican II: The Final Fight
Turrican 3: Payment Day
The Volleyball Simulator
Warriors
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Added: 26 May 2026
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