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"Anyone remember Rainbird??"

I was digging thorugh soem old games the other day and found a few of my favourite games of all time, one of which is Starglider a game created by a company called Rainbird and published by its sister company Firebird, both company's later become part of Electronic arts, so i just wondered if anyoen else on here knows of the company or of any of their superb games? Let me know

Cool, this is what i wanted, to stir up memories of playing wicked games a while ago, rather than all this talk of all the latest releases, which gets boring.. after a while

I remember getting a spectrum with 2 firebird games 1 which the name I can't remember, and the other was booty (hopefully, my memory of those days isn't as fresh as it used to be), booty was one of my favourite spectrum games we had and my dad would play it for hours because he was addicted to it. We would all sit round the tv waiting for our turn to have a go, to see if we could get further than each other, good stuff.

Nice to know i bought back fond memories of games of yesteryear

VenomByte wrote:
That has to be the best scrolling shot
> em up I've ever played. I used to own that game on the spectrum, but lost it
> somehow. I never found it again... and that has haunted me ever since.

You can pickup the PC 3D sequal for about 5 quid now too...

"shoot* em up"

Fatal Furby wrote:
> i don't remember rainbird, but thinking back it reminds me of a game called silk
> worm.

That has to be the best scrolling shot em up I've ever played. I used to own that game on the spectrum, but lost it somehow. I never found it again... and that has haunted me ever since.

Great in two player mode - one helicopter & one jeep, both very different abilities, but working together. A true classic that. Quite difficult, too. I think my brother and I completed it a couple of times.

Actually, thinking about it - that must have been one of the first games I ever completed - possibly THE first!

Cool. It's ages since I last thought about that game.

Didnt they use StarGlider in some kids TV show...

Some Saturday Morning thing?

i don't remember rainbird, but thinking back it reminds me of a game called silk worm.

Well sort of, as far as i know (i was told this as a young child by my brother) they were bought by Electronic Arts some time ago, as for the special reserve connection, i had no idea

Well EA are class and you've said that the birds have joined with them!