Rare is a British

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founded by Tim and Chris Stamper after the now-defunct

Ultimate Play the Game Ashby Computers and Graphics Limited, trading as Ultimate Play the Game, was a British video game developer and publisher, founded in 1982, by ex-arcade game developers Tim and Chris Stamper. Ultimate released a series of successful games for t ...

. Since its inception, the company has produced various titles in a wide variety of genres and on numerous gaming systems, mostly from

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and

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. The company is best known for its platform games, which include the '' Donkey Kong Country'' series and the ''

Banjo-Kazooie ''Banjo-Kazooie'' is a series of video games developed by Rare (company), Rare. The games feature a male bear named Banjo & Kazooie, Banjo and his friend, a large female red bird named Banjo & Kazooie, Kazooie, who are both controlled by the p ...

'' series, and for its Nintendo 64

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s '' GoldenEye 007'' and ''

Perfect Dark ''Perfect Dark'' is a first-person shooter developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64 video game console in 2000. The first game of the ''Perfect Dark'' series, it follows Joanna Dark, an agent of the Carrington Institute research c ...

''. This list includes games produced by Rare after its formation. It does not include games developed or published by Ultimate Play the Game.

Games

References

External links

Rare's official website
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