There are people in this gaming subculture who think that some games, mainly fighting games, can’t be played with a pad, but require an arcade stick. I’ve never been convinced by this and I’m quite happy playing Street Fighter and its children with a standard controller.

However, there is one game that I can’t seem to play using a normal controller. As the title of this post might suggest, that game is Rainbow Islands. I tried the Taito Legends and the MAME version on my Xbox today and I couldn’t play either of them. Random jumping, rainbows flying everywhere, it wasn’t pretty. It’s because I need to use my thumb and not my fingers for the jumping and firing.

(Well, either that or I’m just rubbish these days. But that can’t be the explanation, can it?)