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Rare evolved from the company Ultimate Play the Game, which was founded in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire by former arcade game developers Tim and Chris Stamper. [1] After multiple critically and commercially successful releases including Jetpac, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, and Knight Lore, Ultimate Play The Game was one of the biggest UK-based video game development companies. [2]
In September, Nintendo was removed of Rare, a valuable asset, when Nintendo sold its 49% share in the studio to Microsoft, who used Rare to develop games for their new Xbox console. [51] [59] This was likely a part of Nintendo's strategy to not rely on second-party development.
Rare is a British video game developer founded by Tim and Chris Stamper after the now-defunct Ultimate Play the Game. Since its inception, the company has produced various titles in a wide variety of genres and on numerous gaming systems, mostly from Nintendo and Microsoft .
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Rare's Blast Corps began a run of highly praised Nintendo 64 games, including GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, and Jet Force Gemini. Retro Gamer wrote that Rare had doubled the number of classic Nintendo 64 games and was an important alliance for Nintendo. [4] Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002 for a record price of $377 million.
Seen as the rarest gaming console on the planet, its historical prowess and one-of-a-kind status resulted in it selling for a mind-boggling $360,000 at an auction in 2020. 6. Gold-Plated Nintendo Wii
Nintendo purchased the Stampers' Slalom, which sold half a million units, [2] and made the Stampers into Nintendo's first Western third-party developer. [17] As interest in Filmation and the Spectrum began to wane, the brothers sold part of Ultimate to U.S. Gold and began to focus on Rare, though the Stampers retained a majority stake in ...
How many Nintendo games have you traded-in without a second thought during a trip to GameStop? Unfortunately, there’s a decent chance you could have made a cool couple hundred bucks down the ...