The Story Of Video Game Developer Rare Part 3 The XBOX Years

Video game developer Rare ltd has been around for an astonishing 31 years. After an incredible string of critical and commercial hits on the ZX Spectrum Rare had a lackluster run on the NES, however, Rare truly innovated again by bringing CGI graphics to the Super Nintendo. Rare would go on to have another impressive run of games on both the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64. Eventually Rare was purchased by Microsoft and came on as a first party developer. In this the 3rd and final part of my look at Rare, we take a look at Rare s time with Microsoft, how they were still able to crank out a few titles for Nintendo during this time, and where they re going.