Don’t let this video distract you from the fact that Chunky Kong was wrongfully declared dead and has a cameo in the Mario movie

Rare's partnership with Nintendo was a golden age for Rare.

This is a really fun subject matter. Got some respect for two guys who can say “We are good enough to go big. Let’s go big” and then go ahead and do it. They had the pinash to say “yeah 1 million copies isn’t enough. We gotta go bigger.” I think that attitude really fit in the 90s, where strong attitudes stood out and excelled. To quote a KZfaqr of a bygone era, “they were like the Beatles. They could release a game in a new genre and set the bar at the same time.”

It's been really heartbreaking to see Rare's downfall over the years. They really were one of the greats in their heyday. Banjo-Kazooie is still one of my favourite games and always it makes me smile when I hear the soundtrack used in videos.

Babe, wake up, new Carlito video

It's important to accept these days that the Rare of yesteryear died when they sold it to Microsoft (instead of just downsizing). The Rare of today is a different company with different teams, different management, and a different direction. Rest in Peace old Rare, you are missed.

Basically, Nintendo was the birth and the death of Rare.

Rare really did some great games, it's always nice to remember them

As someone from The UK I can confirm that this is the best thing from Britain to ever release.

Wish they were still as big as they once were. Thank You Rare for providing me such an amazing Childhood ❤

When your small project is GOLDENEYE 007, you know you're cooking

I miss when Rare was with Nintendo...

Been a kid in the 90’s and owning the super nes then getting the 64 with rare making some of the best games ive ever played still to this day . I’m 36 now . Some of my most cherished childhood memories was staying up all night playing banjo kazooie . Wish i cud go back

Stickerbrush Symphony hits right in the childhood feelings 😢

(slaw)-(lum) = Slalom. great video!

Robin Beanland, who did the music for killer instinct and Conkers Bad Fur Day still works for rare. Also, the killer instinct from 2013 was NOT made by rare, just like the Battletoads reboot

Rare didn't develop Killer Instinct 2013... That was Iron Galaxy and Double Helix

I honestly thought Rare hadn't made anything since the Kinect was discontinued. Good to see they're still in the business, and their upcoming game looks promising!

I remember how crushed I felt after reading about the buyout in Game Informer as a kid. And I felt like things went downhill in the years to come. But as an adult I realize that it wasn’t downhill, just up a different hill (on a console that I didn’t have lol). And I believe part of Rare’s massive success in the 90’s was a product of its time; being proficient in 3D visuals, programming and having composers who knew their way around sound chips propelled them to the front on the cusp of huge technological shift. If you look at the leaked build of Dinosaur Planet for N64 you’ll see just how much they could push the limits of the hardware. Most 3D felt impressive back then cause they were new, but lots of those 3D games failed to master the art of “good game-feel” like Rare did.

Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero began in development prior to the Microsoft buyout as well. Spaceworld 2000 had a trailer for Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero was on a list of announced GameCube games prior to release, as well as Donkey Kong Racing which also had screenshots. Nintendo power was hyping that stuff before launch big time.

Amazing video, As someone who has heard about the story of rare a lot, I feel this was one of the most in depth videos on the history of rare and a love letter to this amazing company. Let’s hope for amazing games from this company in the future.

Refreshing to see a content creator speak from the heart. Instant sub. All the best to you on your journey!

Rare will always be my favorite 2nd party developer company and I’ll still remember them..

There's two Rareware games you didn't talk about, Ken Griffey Jr's Winning Run for SNES and Mickey's Speedway USA for Nintendo 64.

Thank you so much for putting the song names in the description it makes it a lot easier to find them if you can't remember their names :)

Rare+Nintendo were the good old days, I wish Rare was still around and working with Nintendo

God, Banjo-Kazooie was so good. The music in that game is firmly imbedded in my head. It's a shame we haven't got more.

Killer Instinct (2013) was not developed by Rare. It was first developed by Double Helix Games and then Iron Galaxy developed season 2 and 3

I'm still waiting for Carlito to do a video on every Toad and every version of the Thwomp and Whomp, but the Rareware train continues!

The Stickerbush Symphony in the background gave me chills… man what a powerful piece of music.

Really enjoyed the video! Wanted to point out that Rare did not develop, nor really have much involvement with Killer Instinct 2013. Also, there are still a handful of people still there from the N64 and earlier days - including the lead designer of Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie (Gregg Mayles), an artist from Diddy Kong Racing (Paul Cunningham), the creator of Stop N Swop for Banjo-Kazooie and Game Boy programmer (Paul Machecek), and four members of the original Conker team (Robin Beanland, Louise O'Connor [Ridgeway], Andy Betts, and Chris Marlow). Considering most teams in the 90s were 15 people, that's a good amount! Also two QA mainstays are still there (Huw Ward and David Wong). And Ken Lobb, who assisted with Killer Instinct and GoldenEye on behalf of Nintendo, is now a creative director at Xbox, so still involved to some degree!

I can watch Rare early beginnings a million times over and you sor gained a subscriber! I feel this may just be the best documentary on Rare LTD ❤

This dude deserves more subs. Amazing content. Keep it up, man.

Nice video man, good pacing, good content, no fluff. You love to see it. Could really see the passion in this

Rare’s backs never fully recovered from carrying the N64.

Wasn’t sure if I watched this yet, clicked it, realized I have watched it all the way through, continued to watch it all the way through again lol Love the videos man

Another great video, didn't know the Rare company had such an interesting history

This was a well made and inspiring video! Thanks for putting this all together!

I never connected the fact that Banjo and others were teased in Diddy Kong Racing....huh....That is really cool!

Really well done, it was concise, with enough flavor info thrown in to get me caught up on the stuff I didn't know

KZfaq algorithm has done it again. Awesome content. Informative and the humor is actually really good quality. definitely subscribed Perfect Dark Zero is pretty underrated tbh. if only it had a map editor like in Farcry: Insticts/Predator it would be a God tier game Imo

I'll always be grateful to Coney for making me aware of your channel. Nothing but bangers

Incredibly good video man. I really hope to see more informative and quality content like this from you in the future 🔥

This is a fantastic video essay on the history of Rare. You did an excellent job on the material; the visuals kept everything engaging. I hope you continue to do these kinds of videos because I don't think enough people understand the rich gaming history, from pong to arcades to the console wars of the 80s, the downfall of Atari, etc., all-important history ga(y)mers need to know.

This video came up in my recommended and I'm glad it did. I loved them from the Donkey Kong Country series and when I saw the release of Sea of Thieves being announced, I was very eager to play it and is probably one of my most played games ever while the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy are one of my favorite games of all time. Rare is my childhood and Rare is my today, I hope it'll be my future too (Everwild looks amazing)

perfect! i have the flu and cant go to work and you post this awseome video!

23:54 Funny you should mention that, considering the photo used here is from 2015 when they founded their mobile game studio Fortune Fish. Tim Stamper still has a presence on social media, as infrequent as it is, but he was the guy who still had a ROM of Project Dream and helped get it online back in 2015 through Rare's YT channel. He even recently started teasing some more hidden relics as of this week actually. 24:55 Killer Instinct, while yes, had a bit of input from Rare, they were not the primary developers, that being Double Helix and later Iron Galaxy -- those guys deserve most of the praise for that game. I recognize the love and passion for Rare, though there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding them that still persist today. You dispelled a few (and kudos for taking your lumps with Kinect Sports' sales) though there's quite a few gaps that I feel should've been highlighted -- the studio still has several veterans for instance, with one dating back to the Ultimate days. Still, I have faith you'll continue to grow if you keep it up.

We need a new conkers game. The adult gaming world would go crazyyy for it

awesome video reminds me of the History of (video game franchise/company) that machinima used to do keep up the dope work!

Jet force Gemini is so slept on

Bro I love your channel’s content!

This is not the first Rare History video I watched but it’s to hear an updated video. I was born 98 but I enjoy playing their classic titles more than modern games.

Love this video!! U got my sub keep it up!

That bittersweet ending made me feel things

ZED X Spectrum was used in countries other than the UK. It was popular in South America, USSR, and also here, in Israel. Rare is okay, but Ultimate Play The Game was huge! Best original creative games!

British company called US GOLD ... A bit odd of a name choice there but ok what ever.

this guy does not miss

Amazing work dude, keep UP and you will be BIG!

I still don't understand why Nintendo ditched Rare this hard after they made such gems for the N64... First no financial aid and then refusing to buy them... I wonder why

Jet force gemini was a gem

Great video Carlito, can't wait for the classic Coney rewatch

What a journey it's been. Hope there is more single player experiences to come from Rare but if not we'll always have the old ones

Great video. To give some leeway to Rare for Sea of Thieves, the idea of releasing a game early, and adding in the content later seems to be a Microsoft problem, not necessarily a Rare problem. It's possible that even if Rare felt like they needed more time for the game, MS probably wouldn't allow it. Hopefully it's an attitude MS turns around on (as well as hiring a lot of contract workers), cause it's really starting to bite them in the ass with games like Halo Infinite. Hopefully Rare are able to turn things around, though considering the people who made Rare what they are aren't with the company anymore, it'll be a hard road ahead of them.

New syntetich man and carlito video, my favourites youtubers to listen to while I do my college's works

Jontron referred to RareWare as the Beatles of Gaming before.

This dude is hilarious. Great content and great video. Keep up the good work!!

I absolutely LOVED the rich colours of that R logo. Such a saturated deep blue with the gold 😍😍😍

Sad, from stardom on the SNES and N64, to a modern day mid company, DK64 and Diddy Kong racing will always be some of my favorites on the N64, and the DK country series left a mark on me when i was a kid

As a bro that grew up playing DK Country and Killer Instinct this was a dope mini doc. Thank you.

Amazing work! I hope Rare will make a great comeback soon

A small addendum is that the 2013 Killer Instinct isn't even from Rare, it was a Rare property licensed out to Double Helix, who then passed it onto Iron Galaxy for support. Still a super cool game though.

Nice video, subbed

I gotta say I'm just thankful I had the chance to live the period when they realised DKC and all their N64 gems, they are a huge part of my childhood best memories.

Awesome video, awesome channel!

I almost wonder whether the level in donkey Kong country with the red light green light is a low-key Easter egg for the fact that his first program was traffic lights.

Subbed after looking at your channel

All I needed to see what the profile icon and I knew this KZfaqr is used to dedication

These videos are super interesting to me, and I was gonna fall asleep to this video while hung over, but then I saw the Luffy profile picture. It was then I knew that I had to devote myself to consume this media whole

been waiting of years for a proper rare documentary

Carlito should DEFINITELY do a review on the donkey Konga and DK Jungle Beat! Those games are good

Keep these fire ass videos coming

I wake up, see you posted, and watch it all!

Great video bro, your channel is quality just like RARE

thank you for being an absolute legend

Hey just wanted to say thank you for the work. Didn’t know a lot of this info and I appreciate the time and effort because some of these games I still play and miss and will definitely try to get all my kids to play it. If they would stop playing Fortnight 😖

loved rare growing up. still can’t forgive microsoft for what they did to them. completely different studio now

Love this movie!! :)

Yesssss. My favorite recently discovered channel. Keep em coming!

I have to thank Rare for introducing me to DKC series 🙏

Your vids remind me of early AVGN videos and I love it!

I'm really hoping the deal between Nintendo and Microsoft will mean we will get all the old Rare games on the Switch

Great video, well researched! There was a decent amount of weird pronunciation (slalom, oscilloscope, etc.), might be worth looking up pronunciation for words you aren't familiar with!

grabbed by the ghoulies is so good and underrated 😭

That really sadden me seeing what Rare became, I grew up with the first Donkey kong country on Super Nintendo and seeing one of my favourite video game company looking like this today is just sad !

That is a fun way to say slalom lol nice vid

great video!! KEEP GOING

great vid man

RAW talent.

For me, thats the saddest story in the game industry. Most of Rare's games were a dream, there was something magical about this studio and now no one cares. Nintendo made a huge mistake selling Rare. I really hope someday Rare will returns home, to the place they never should have left.

It's like yesterday me and my brother were amazed by the graphics of Donkey Kong Country for the SNES. Our mouths hung open the hole time we played ❤