Rareware

Name: Rareware Established: 1983 Status: Active Links: Official site Submitter: Diskboy3k Added: May 25 2004

Rareware produced a total of around 60 games for the NES and Game Boy (with occasional dabblings in the Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Gear markets) over the next few years, from Slalom to Marble Madness, RC Pro-Am to Battletoads. But it was Donkey Kong Country on the SNES, released in late 1994, which was to suddenly hurl Rare back into the limelight.

One of the biggest-selling videogames of all time, DKC was the beginning of a multi-platform franchise which has seen sales of well over 30 million copies to date. The original DKC was followed by Killer Instinct, the first in another extremely popular series, which hit top place in the 1995 arcade popularity charts and spawned highly successful home conversions. Nintendo were so impressed with these achievements that they invested in a landmark fiscal partnership with Rare, giving the fast-growing British outfit freedom to expand its premises, staff base and ambitions.

Name	System	Genre
Donkey Kong Country	SNES	Platform
Killer Instinct	SNES	Action
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest	SNES	Platform
RC Pro Am II	NES	Racing
Narc	NES	Action
Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team	NES	Platform
Battletoads	NES	Action

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