RARE speaks

After the sudden appearance of Banjo Kazooie: Grunty?s Revenge on EBGames' releaseschedule, I tried investigating what's the deal with RARE exactly...

After the sudden appearance of Banjo Kazooie: Grunty?s Revenge on EBGames' releaseschedule, I tried investigating what's the deal with RARE exactly...

On my search, I found 3 questions which address the matter whether RARE is or isn't still developing for both the GBA and the GameCube.

Q: Dear High-Profile Software Company That's A Part of Microsoft Game Studios: Here's a serious question for the guys behind the curtain. In all honesty, are you a little upset that Nintendo is porting Donkey Kong Country to the Game Boy Advance on their own? I mean, you guys just ported it two years ago to Game Boy Color, right? I know that Nintendo is DKC's legal guardian, but you'll always be that baby's daddy. Do you just look at the screenshots, shake your head, and say, "that's not what we would have done. Why did they put the spinning golden KONG letters from DKC2 and DKC3 in the game? This is DKC, and without the stationary golden KONG letters, the game is wrecked!" Anyway, does anyone feel a little sad that a game that will always be your own is being remade into something you didn't do, or do you look at it as "hey! We get to take credit for something we didn't even do! Schwing!" SirSlush2

RARE: Not applicable, Slushville. As you and many others have probably realised by now, we did convert it to the GBA - hence all that talk about our continued working relationship with Nintendo. We might be leaving the publicity and advertising up to the Big N, but we're by no means denying our involvement. As for those of you writing in to demand we follow it up with GBA DKC2 (and 3) - well, you never know, do you?

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Q: How about you just tell everyone you've cancelled the GBA games. Skanks. Saj

RARE: That'd be a bizarre thing to do - you know, BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T. Scab

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Q: Are you still going to make NINTENDO games anymore. Make lots of E-rated games, they're the funnest. Margaret Ash

RARE: GC: no. GBA: yes. Surely X-rated games are the 'funnest'.

So there it is ladies and gentlemen: RARE is still developing for the Gameboy Advance, the earlier announced games aren't cancelled and yes DKC2 (and maybe DKC3) are informally announced.

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  nice work! must have missed that one <img src="images/smileys/4.gif">

  Dennis, 30-11--0001 at 00:00