Rare Ltd. Turns 40 Years Old Today

[ThunderBoy]

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What is your favorite Rare game?

Mine, Killer Instinct and Donkey Kong Country 2

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Happy Birthday to the creators of Banjo-Kazooie and probably the biggest reason to own a Nintendo 64 at all.

(Also to the ones paranoid to the point of making emulation into a gigantic, horrendous task through the use of extra chips on their games).

 

[Bonkers225]

Talk about an incredible company in the 90's that completely fell off the rails.

I'll pick Battletoads/Double Dragon. Probably the most satisfying beat-em up I've ever played.

 

[thecrow2313]

Battletoads, Jet Force Gemini, Killer Instinct Gold, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Diddy Kong Racing, Perfect Dark, Donkey Kong Country 3, Viva Piñata, Blast Corps, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Jetpac Refuelled, Kameo, Banjo-Kazooie

 

[Frickinfrik]

My favorite Rare games are:
Conker’s Bad Fur Day
Donkey Kong Country Trilogy
Perfect Dark
Banjo Kazooie
Banjo Tooie
Diddy Kong Racing

 

[Clippy]

Happy 40th, Rare. Thanks for 20 years worth of games. Seriously, have they done anything of note after Perfect Dark Zero that wasn't some Kinect flop or a compilation of their older titles?

With that said, Conker was such a great character. They don't make'em like they used to.

 

[Kamako]

Conker's Bad Fur Day is such a strange game. It's wonderful. I remember belly laughing so hard as a kid hearing the Great Mighty Poo song for the first time on YouTube. Took ages before I finally played the game, but damn did it deliver. Such strange level design and odd characters. I really appreciated the sort of open world feeling it had.

And of course the Donkey Kong games are amongst the best platformers ever. Dope soundtracks too.

 

[bjork]

The first Banjo and Viva Pinata 1 are all I got. No other rare game has ever clicked with me, but I'm glad they've stayed successful all along.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

For Me It Would Be the Super Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Country Trilogy, Diddy Kong Racing, Kller Instinct Duology, Banjo-Kazooie, etc.

 

[RustySK]

Great dev studio, hope all members of the old teams, whether they're still working in the industry or not, are proud of what they achieved.

My favourite game of theirs would be Donkey Kong Country 2 (or the trilogy as a whole, really), but I'm far more nostalgic for Banjo-Kazooie personally - when I think of the N64, I think of Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Banjo. Defining games of the system.

 

[Skeetos]

Man, look at all those games we'll never get new titles for. Micro$oft strikes again.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Diddy Kong Racing, Conker's Bad Fur Day and I also did like Blast Corps as well as Donkey Kong 64.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Thanks for 10 years of great games

 

[medisinn]

Pretty crazy longevity in the industry. Of course, they just experienced typical Microsoft-mandated bloodletting and some of their very tenured people are now gone. Hopefully they make it to 50 years.

My favorite Rare game is Donkey Kong Country 2. Probably more for the sick-ass Dave Wise soundtrack than the game, but the game is great too. Actually, scratch that, that is second, first is Donkey Kong Land. Also an amazing soundtrack and a crazy technical achievement for the OG Game Boy in the mid 90s.

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

This is like the Evolution of Rare's Company Logo.
1st Logo: Ultimate Play the Game (1982-1985)
2nd Logo: RARE: Designs on the Future (1985-1994)
3rd Logo: Rareware (1994-2003)
4th Logo: Rare (Plainly, 2003-2010)
5th Logo: Rare (Very Dark Grey and Green, 2010-2015)
6th Logo: Rare (The Current, 2015-Present).

 

[ThunderBoy]

This is like the Evolution of Rare's Company Logo.

Yeah.
The best, of course, the Rareware logo.

Trully iconic.
Like the Owl head of Psygnosis or the Orange-Red logo of Konami.