List of video games developed by Rare explained
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. The company is best known for its platform games, which include the Donkey Kong Country series and the Banjo-Kazooie series, and for its Nintendo 64 first-person shooters GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. This list includes games produced by Rare after its formation. It does not include games developed or published by Ultimate Play the Game.
Games
Cancelled games
Title | System | Genre | Year of development |
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Jetpac | Commodore 64 | Shooter | 1984[1] |
Knight Lore | Commodore 64 | Action-adventure, maze | 1984[2] |
Bubbler | Commodore 64 | Action | 1985[3] |
Alien 8 | Commodore 64 | Action-adventure, maze | 1985[4] |
Mire Mare | ZX Spectrum | Action-adventure | 1986[5] |
Pentagram | Amstrad CPC | Action-adventure, maze | 1986 |
BC Games | Nintendo Entertainment System | Sports | Unknown[6] |
Exterminator | Nintendo Entertainment System | N/A | 1990[7] |
Screwballs Superleague | Nintendo Entertainment System | Action, fighting | 1990[8] [9] |
Snakes in Space | Nintendo Entertainment System | Platform | 1990[10] |
Wrestlerage | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | Fighting | 1991[11] |
Jonny Blastoff and the Kremling Armada | Microsoft Windows, Macintosh | Point-and-click | 1992[12] |
Brute Force | Arcade | Fighting | 1993[13] |
Project Dream / Dream: Land of Giants | Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64 | Adventure, RPG | 1996[14] |
Killer Instinct 2 | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | Fighting | 1996[15] |
Conker's Quest / Twelve Tales: Conker 64 | Nintendo 64 | Platform | 1996[16] |
Jet Force Gemini | Game Boy Color | Shooter | 1999[17] |
Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Curse | Game Boy Color | Platform | 1999[18] |
Velvet Dark | Nintendo 64, GameCube | Shooter | 2000[19] |
Dinosaur Planet | Nintendo 64 | Action-adventure | 2000[20] |
Diddy Kong Pilot | Game Boy Advance | Racing | 2002[21] |
Viva Piñata | Pocket PC | Simulation | 2002[22] |
| GameCube, Xbox | Action-adventure | 2002 - 2004[23] |
Donkey Kong Racing | GameCube | Racing | 2002[24] |
Donkey Kong: Coconut Crackers | Game Boy Advance | Puzzle | 2002[25] [26] |
| Xbox | Platform | 2003 - 2004[27] |
Arc Angel | Xbox | Racing | 2003[28] |
Battletoads | Game Boy Advance | Beat' em up | 2004[29] [30] |
Conker's Other Bad Day | GameCube, Xbox | Platform | 2005[31] |
Banjo-X | Xbox | Platform | 2005[32] [33] |
Sabreman Stampede | Xbox 360 | Adventure | 2005[34] |
Ordinary Joe | Xbox 360 | Survival, horror | 2005[35] [36] |
Conker: Gettin' Medieval | Xbox 360 | Shooter | 2006 - 2010[37] |
Savannah | Xbox 360 | Simulation | 2006[38] |
Banjo-Kazoomie / Banjo-Karting / The Fast and the Furriest | Xbox 360 | Racing | 2006[39] |
Crackdown 2 | Xbox 360 | Shooter | 2007[40] |
Quest | GameCube, Xbox | MMO | 2007[41] |
Project Bean / GoldenEye 007 | Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade) | Shooter | 2007[42] |
Kameo 2 | Xbox 360 | Adventure | 2007[43] |
Cascade | Xbox 360 | MMO | 2007[44] |
The Fast and the Furriest | Xbox 360 | Party | 2008[45] |
Butcher | Xbox 360 | N/A | 2008[46] |
Urchin | Xbox 360 | Adventure, horror | 2008[47] |
Avatar Sports | Xbox 360 | Sports | 2010[48] |
Kinect Trainer | Xbox 360 | Sports | 2010[49] |
SoulCatcher | Xbox 360 | Action, adventure | 2010[50] | |
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 1991 . Solar Jetman (C64) - 1991 Storm - GTW64 . 2023-09-09 . Games That Weren't . en-GB.
- Carroll . Martyn . . 126 . March 2014 . 20–27 . 1742-3155 . 489477015 . Knight Lore: A 30-Year Legacy.
- Web site: fgasking . 1987 . The Bubbler (C64) - 1987 Ultimate Play The Game - GTW64 . 2023-09-09 . Games That Weren't . en-GB.
- Web site: Alien 8 V1.20 . 2023-09-09 . Commodore 64 Scene Database.
- Web site: World of Spectrum - Sinclair User Issue:63 Page:108 . 2023-09-09 . World of Spectrum.
- Web site: Rare Gamer BC Games . 2023-09-09 . en.
- Web site: Rare Gamer Exterminator . 2023-09-09 . en.
- Web site: Rare Gamer Screwballs Superleague . 2023-09-09 . en.
- Web site: 2010-07-13 . Screwballs Superleague [NES - Cancelled] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Snake Rattle 'n' Roll. Rare. Nintendo. July 1990. Nintendo Entertainment System. Ending. Hippety hip, hippety hop, Rattle n Roll are at the top ... see you soon ... Snakes in Space.
- Web site: 2008-04-14 . Wrestlerage [SNES - Unreleased] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2017-12-27 . Jonny Blastoff and the Kremling Armada (Rare) [PC - Cancelled] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: Rare Gamer Brute Force . 2023-09-09 . en.
- Reeves . Ben . Dream Project: The Secret History Of Banjo-Kazooie . https://web.archive.org/web/20121026014705/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/10/22/secret-history-of-banjo-kazooie.aspx . dead . 26 October 2012 . 2023-09-09 . Game Informer . en.
- Retro Gamer magazine Issue 84: 25 Years of Rare.
- Book: Corrigan, Don H. . Nuts About Squirrels: The Rodents That Conquered Popular Culture . 2019-02-28 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-3635-1 . en.
- Web site: 2016-01-26 . See The Opening Moments Of The Jet Force Gemini Game Boy Color Game . 2023-09-09 . Siliconera . en-US.
- Web site: McFerran . Damien . 2015-10-05 . Lost Game Boy Color Banjo-Kazooie Game Unearthed In Design Documents . 2023-09-09 . Nintendo Life . en-GB.
- Web site: N64's Perfect Dark Was Meant to Have a Sister Game, Velvet Dark . 2023-09-09 . GameSpot . en-US.
- Web site: 20 February 2021 . Rare's cancelled N64 game Dinosaur Planet has leaked online .
- Web site: Diddy Kong Pilot Nintendo Retrospective . May 19, 2018.
- Web site: 2007-01-24 . Mundo Rare - Special features - Interview with the Piñata Team . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20070124034234/http://www.mundorare.com/especial/pinatoween/interview.html . 2007-01-24 . 2023-09-09 .
- Web site: Rare's New Making-Of Video Looks at Kameo . 2023-09-09 . GameSpot . en-US.
- Web site: Donkey Kong Racing . 2023-09-09 . IGN . en.
- Web site: I. G. N. Staff . 2001-05-29 . Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers . 2023-09-09 . IGN . en.
- Web site: I. G. N. Staff . 2004-08-12 . It's Mr. Pants . 2023-09-09 . IGN . en.
- Web site: Goldstein . Hilary . 2005-04-12 . Conker: Playing with Yourself . 2023-09-09 . IGN . en.
- Web site: Rare Gamer Arc Angel . 2023-09-09 . en.
- Web site: 2008-08-02 . Battletoads [GBA - Proto / Cancelled] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2013-12-02 . Battletoads GBA RareWareCentral . 2023-09-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131202231132/http://www.rarewarecentral.com/battletoads-gba . 2 December 2013 .
- Web site: Wojnar . Jason . 2020-11-07 . 10 Cancelled GameCube Games We Wish Had Happened . 2023-09-09 . Game Rant . en.
- Web site: https://twitter.com/mingellasfella/status/1001163031492136963 . 2023-09-09 . X (formerly Twitter) . en.
- Web site: https://twitter.com/mingellasfella/status/630777927374893057 . 2023-09-09 . X (formerly Twitter) . en.
- Web site: 2014-02-28 . Rare designer talks canceled Donkey Kong Racing . 2023-09-09 . Destructoid . en-US.
- Web site: Rare Gamer Ordinary Joe . 2023-09-09 . en.
- Web site: 2013-07-09 . Ordinary Joe (Rare Ltd) [Prototype - Xbox 360] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- News: 2015-09-29 . Rare reflects on its lost Conker game, Gettin' Medieval . en . Eurogamer.net . 2023-09-09.
- Web site: Rare Gamer Savannah . 2023-09-09 . en.
- Web site: 2012-01-08 . Banjo-Karting [Xbox 360 - Prototype] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2015-12-08 . Crackdown 2 (by Rare Ltd) [Xbox 360 - Cancelled] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2009-04-07 . Quest (Rare MMO) [GameCube / XBOX - Cancelled] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2014-02-03 . Why Did GoldenEye XBLA Stall?: News from 1UP.com . 2023-09-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140203220326/http://www.1up.com/news/goldeneye-xbla-stall . 3 February 2014 .
- Web site: 2015-08-05 . Rare Shares A Rare Glimpse of Kameo 2 - Hardcore Gamer . 2023-09-09 . en-US.
- Web site: Rare Gamer Cascade . 2023-09-09 . en.
- Web site: 2010-07-22 . The Fast and the Furriest [XBOX 360 - Cancelled] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2011-09-16 . Butcher [Xbox 360 - Prototype] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2009-04-04 . Urchin (Rare Ltd.) [Xbox 360 - Cancelled] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2011-10-18 . Avatar Sports [Xbox 360 - Prototype] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2011-05-07 . Kinect Trainer [Xbox 360 - Cancelled] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.
- Web site: 2011-12-22 . SoulCatcher [Xbox 360 - Prototype] - Unseen64 ]. 2023-09-09 . Unseen64: Beta, Cancelled & Unseen Videogames! . en-US.