Rare Ltd. Turns 40 Years Old Today
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AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
Don't shoot the messenger.
Robb
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Chittagong
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Rare is 40.
Donkey Kong Country is 31.
GoldenEye is 28.
Donkey Kong Country is 31.
GoldenEye is 28.
Susurrus
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Imagine what we could have had if Microsoft never acquired them.
Holy shit just looked at their gamelist to see if they had anything I missed just for funsies since I'm not the biggest Xbox Follower. FIVE years since a release. And that was Battletoads, which was "mainly developed by Diala Studios" in 2020. Before that 2018 Sea of Thieves, and 2015 Rare Replay.
Fuck Microsoft, seriously. What did they release since Microsoft bought them that was good? Kameo, PDZ, Viva Pinata, and Ghoulies all started life for Nintendo platforms. Other than that, ports/hd remakes of games that were on Nintendo consoles were the only thing they had going for them. Everything else they made was trash. Why did Microsoft bother if they were going to do this? Was it solely to nerf Nintendo?
Holy shit just looked at their gamelist to see if they had anything I missed just for funsies since I'm not the biggest Xbox Follower. FIVE years since a release. And that was Battletoads, which was "mainly developed by Diala Studios" in 2020. Before that 2018 Sea of Thieves, and 2015 Rare Replay.
Fuck Microsoft, seriously. What did they release since Microsoft bought them that was good? Kameo, PDZ, Viva Pinata, and Ghoulies all started life for Nintendo platforms. Other than that, ports/hd remakes of games that were on Nintendo consoles were the only thing they had going for them. Everything else they made was trash. Why did Microsoft bother if they were going to do this? Was it solely to nerf Nintendo?
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Moses85
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Miyazaki’s Slave
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40 year's old...Christ.
I paid for an older guys lunch today because the food truck/stand thing wouldn't take cash...only dbt/contactless pay. Felt super bad for the guy...I feel like him in this thread.
They have a controller and records/LP's as part of their 40th year anniversary..."back in my day we had games for shit like this!"
I paid for an older guys lunch today because the food truck/stand thing wouldn't take cash...only dbt/contactless pay. Felt super bad for the guy...I feel like him in this thread.
They have a controller and records/LP's as part of their 40th year anniversary..."back in my day we had games for shit like this!"
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
You are
If you were born before Rare was established, you should probably schedule for a proctology exam.
hououinkyouma00
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40 years of mediocrity. Congratulations
Come at me dweebs
Come at me dweebs
Fluffytheterrible
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Rare were the kings of N64. I'm still eagerly waiting ports of their old games to new platforms (starting with one of my favorites, Star Fox adventures on NSO!!!)
EverydayBeast
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Good developer, when you think of Rare it's that epic 90s run.
Something Wicked
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I'll say it: if you're not down with Sea of Thieves, then you're not a true Rare fan. Only a Rare-fan poser would hate on Project Dream/The Best Multi-Player Game of the Last 15 years.
Agent X
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They announced Rare Collection 1 for Evercade today, with 12 games on it.
- Jetpac
- Lunar Jetman
- Atic Atac
- Sabre Wulf
- Underwurlde
- Knight Lore
- Gunfright
- Battletoads
- R.C Pro-Am
- Cobra Triangle
- Battletoads Arcade
- Conker's Pocket Tales
You can find more information at the following link:
Rare Collection 1 | Cartridges and Games - Evercade
Rare is one of the best-known names in British game development, and in this collection for Evercade you'll explore 12 all-time favourites.
evercade.co.uk
SILKYSMOOTH30FPS
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They announced Rare Collection 1 for Evercade today, with 12 games on it.
- Jetpac
- Lunar Jetman
- Atic Atac
- Sabre Wulf
- Underwurlde
- Knight Lore
- Gunfright
- Battletoads
- R.C Pro-Am
- Cobra Triangle
- Battletoads Arcade
- Conker's Pocket Tales
You can find more information at the following link:
Rare Collection 1 | Cartridges and Games - Evercade
Rare is one of the best-known names in British game development, and in this collection for Evercade you'll explore 12 all-time favourites.
That is not what i want from RARE. But at least i've learned that there was a Conker game before Bad Fur Day was released.
NeverYouMind
Member
They announced Rare Collection 1 for Evercade today, with 12 games on it.
- Jetpac
- Lunar Jetman
- Atic Atac
- Sabre Wulf
- Underwurlde
- Knight Lore
- Gunfright
- Battletoads
- R.C Pro-Am
- Cobra Triangle
- Battletoads Arcade
- Conker's Pocket Tales
You can find more information at the following link:
Rare Collection 1 | Cartridges and Games - Evercade
Rare is one of the best-known names in British game development, and in this collection for Evercade you'll explore 12 all-time favourites.
Cobra Triangle and Battletoads Arcade are still awesome. I go back to those in Rare Replay every so often.
Sethbacca
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Can confirm, just talked to my doctor's office yesterday.....
keefged4
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Shifty1897
Member
Dang, wish I could get Rare Replay on my PS5. I was a huge fan of everything from Snake Rattle and Roll to Battletoads to Donkey Kong Country to Perfect Dark to Jet Force Gemini. Such great games.
hououinkyouma00
Member
Microsoft still greenlit those weird ass games like Viva Pinata or Nuts & Bolts, might just be because they never knew how to provide a direction for the studio to be successful and just let them do their thing, but that's still a good thing we've had games like this.
I think Rare's weirdness would not have fit in modern gaming, Microsoft or not. They would have had to reinvent themselves and probably lose a lot of their personality to still exist.
Anyway to me they're dead after the launch of Nuts & Bolts in 2008. Everything after that has nothing to do with Rare.