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Donkey Kong Country (DKC) was somewhat of a gamble for Nintendo. For one, it had been years since home console gamers saw a Donkey Kong game. Earlier in 1994 Nintendo released Donkey Kong for their Game Boy handheld. That title was closer to the 1981 arcade classic, just with more levels. Donkey Kong Country on […]
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Donkey Kong Country Brings SGI Graphics and More to Super Nintendo – November 21st, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
November 20th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in News, Nintendo, Super Nintendo 
Tags: 2d, action, Cranky Kong, Diddy Kong, donkey kong, donkey kong country, platform, rare 
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Killer Instinct Combo Breaks Arcade Competition – October 28th, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
October 28th, 2020 Carl Williams Killer Instinct is one of those rare times we can play three degrees of separation in gaming. Sure, it is not exactly true to that theory but we can link Nintendo and Microsoft rather easily. Developed by Rare for arcades, Killer Instinct set out to do fighting games differently. In 1994 Capcom was still riding […]
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Battletoads Receives Four Player Co-op Hack
September 5th, 2017 Carl Williams Battletoads will probably go down in history as one of the toughest games ever released. I mean, released in the sense that it was a commercial game, not some hacker trying to be a jerk. The classic Rare game has recently seen a four-player co-op hack released by fans. There are some limitations here but […]
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Star Fox Adventures Retrospective
March 10th, 2017 Dash The Bomber On-rails fast pace laser shooting action. The legendary Star Fox team is on the job. A mercenary group which was originally established by Fox McCloud’s deceased father, James. Using the legendary Great Fox as a base they must do everything in their power to earn a paycheck. First, they saved the Lylat galaxy from the […]
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Posted in Console, Nintendo Tags: gamecube, nintendo, rare, star fox, Star Fox Adventures, Star Fox Assault, Star Fox Command, Star Fox Zero No Comments »
GoldenEye 007 Xbox Live Arcade Remake Footage Released
August 29th, 2016 Carl Williams When Microsoft purchased Rare it was nearly demanded by fans that GoldenEye 007 see an HD re-release. While that never happened Rare and Microsoft did do their best to satiate fans with remakes of many of Rare’s classic titles. From Conker’s Bad Fur Day to Perfect Dark – if Rare released it on a Nintendo […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Xbox Tags: 007, Golden Eye, GoldenEye, microsoft, n64, nintendo 64, rare, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, xbox, xbox 360 No Comments »
Top 10 Profitable Turbo Grafx-16 Games
August 16th, 2016 Kevin Ayre The Turbo Grafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem (to give it its full title!), also known as the PC Engine in Japan and France, was designed to compete with the NES at the time, but it failed to break into the North American market and sold poorly, which means that many of its games are rare and profitable!
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Revenge of the License: Five NES Games That Missed the Point
July 24th, 2016 Michael Crisman I love licensed NES games. I love the sound they make as I yank them out of my system and hurl them against the wall. The relentless plundering through the morass in search of something worth playing and finding the occasional surprise is always delightful, and why I keep coming back to this column over […]
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Posted in Comp, Console, News, Nintendo, Sega Tags: 8-bit, activision, AD&D, c64, dos, FCI, ghostbusters, hal, heroes of the lance, ljn, master system, nes, new ghostbusters II, Nightmare on Elm Street, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, pack-in-video, Pool of Radiance, rambo, rambo first blood part II, rare, revenge of the license, sega, SSI, star trek, star trek the next generation No Comments »
Valuable SNES Games Earning Cash Today
July 21st, 2016 Kevin Ayre Are you sitting on a goldmine of rare and valuable Nintendo games? Video games are fast becoming the valuable antiques of the future. Read on for the top ten valuable SNES games that sold on ebay recently.
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Posted in News, Nintendo Tags: antique, Battleclash, cash, CIB, donkey kong, Earthbound, factory sealed, hagane, holy grail, mint condition, money, Pocky, rare, Rocky, Starfix No Comments »
Rare Uploads “Special Video” of Abandoned SNES “Project Dream” to Youtube.
January 11th, 2016 CPC4EVA Project Dream: Land of Giants, the story of how a boy and his dog became a bear and breegull. Rare, the company behind the abandoned SNES game “Project Dream: Land of Giants”, on the 22nd, December, 2015, uploaded to youtube, a 10 minute behind the scenes look story of what really happened to the never to […]
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4 Unlicensed Donkey Kong Country Games You Missed Out On
December 23rd, 2015 Carl Williams Donkey Kong Country was one of the most visually impressive Super Nintendo titles. It left Sega and their Genesis sitting out cold as far as anything to compare. The Silicon Graphics workstation graphics were just too visually impressive and it drew in gamers like wildfire sucks up forests. Nintendo knew they had a hit on […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Sega Tags: bandit gaming, donkey kong country, entertainment system, genesis, nintendo, pirate, rare, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, sega, snes No Comments »
