It was a calm morning in year 1987 when we first met, and it was love at first sight. I had never seen bubble-shooting dragons before, but I decided to follow them in every further adventure since. Two brothers being as like as two peas except the colour of their skin (Bub has the typical green colour as elder dragons, and Bob looking more cyanish as a sort of reminder of the water he's grown up in...).
That's probably the longest friendship I've ever had but... well this is not exactly the place to tell you the way it became stronger with the passing of years.

Today I'd like to tell you about their first, mythical adventure - the one when we first met. At those times Bub and Bob didn't look like the drgons we know, they were two happy children with round faces and plump hands, and had fun in playing peek-a-boo on the Rainbow Islands.
Well we'd say everything was perfect, such perfect to cause the envy of the terrible Super Drunk. The evil dude then kidnapped their girls and took them in the darkness of the cave of monsters... but that wasn't enough: he even transformed the two brothers into innocuous bubble-shooting dragons, looking like some sort of "manga" characters.

The challenge takes place inside of a hundred of caverns fulfilled with enemies, all odd-looking and each attacking in even odder ways: some throwing rocks, some others flying happily and bounce everywhere, others jumping on their own springs, throwing bottles or thunders against our heroes. The only way we have to fight them is shooting bubbles against them, and then entrapping and bursting them. Such operation is worth 1.000 to 32.000 points depending on how many enemies you burst at the same time. A side effect is that monsters then become juicy fruits worth 500 to 5.000 additional points. If you're playing in co-operative mode with a friend, you can now discover how fun it is to steal bonuses to your partner!

You can collect not just fruits, there's a cathegory of fundamental gadgets which appear soon after entering a cavern: the red shoe makes dragons faster, candies make the shooting capability increase, rings bring lots o bonuses. Well there's also a ton of extremely useful "use once" items such as umbrellas making the dragons go various caverns ahead, crosses making the power of elements go against enemies, potions making stage clear and filling the screen with items to gather within 30 seconds in order to get an incredible bonus!
Gameplay has a "dark" feature: yes, you have to cooperate with your partner, but you'll also end up challenging him and stealing the most juicy and worth bonuses. This genre has been then reprised in lots of further videogames (Snow Bros, Tumplepop, Bomberman, Parasol Stars for example...).

The game is enriched by a wide number of hidden bonuses, tips and tricks such as secret rooms full of diamonds you can reach with your first life only, mysterious messages written in a cryptical alphabet, odd methods to get additional bonus fruits at the end of each cavern, coloured bubbles to collect in order to get more lives, and much much more...
At the end of the 100th cavern, after battling against Super Drunk with hundreds of thunders flying all over the screen, we'll get our reward: one million bonus points, setting our girls free, being children again and living happily forever or at least until the next adventure... hey who said "Rainbow Islands"?

The Middle Age was an era full of mysteries when legends, superstitions and religion all merged together, villages were burnt with extreme ease, plagues and famine were common happenings, wars were always beyond the corner and people also waited for the end of the world - maybe the poor masses thought of it as a sort of freedom from such sufferings?
Amid all of these horrible things, a story was told about a bravest warrior who made a journey, alone with his sword and couragem in order to challenge and kill a giant dragon mastering the realm od Stam. The warrior is called Rastan, and this is his story.

People spoke a lot about him, and told he had tons of muscles, dressed with barbarian clothes and had such a heavy sword it would require no less than three men in order to just lift it, but Rastan alone mastered it as if it was a stick!
The warrior's journey is divided into six scenarios full of dragon's minions trying to stop him. At first he encounters green lizardmen armed with rods, named Gigas, but well that's just the beginning! More mystical creatures await for him as chimeras and powerful warriors, named Graton, looking like skeletons and armed with a dangerous long-pole trident.

The hero's not in company with just human-looking opponents during his journey: there are also storms of bats living in the caves, whose bits are quite dangerous!
Each scenario is divided into two parts, the first being in open air (mountains, forests, etc) and it's the castle's surrounding; the second being the maze inside of the castle, then the area bosses: they are lords serving the dragon. At the end of the sixth castle there he is: the giant dragon.
Lots of items can be collected while travelling the lands and castles, each bringing Rastan a different effect: common bonus points, more attacking power, shields and woho! wonderful weapons as fireball-releasing swords or long axes!

Rastan's health is shown on a gauge you can see at the top-left side of the screen. A heart is shown at its side, and it beats fast or slow depending on the gauge level. If energy goes down to zero, a life is lost but there's the chance to regain it by collecting blue potions enemy sometimes release (beware of red potions: they are poisonous!).
Game ends when all lives are lost or when the warrior wins the final fight against the evil giant dragon. Good luck!