Favorite Rare games?

I've been recently playing a lot of current gen Rare games like Perfect Dark Zero and Viva Pinata and it got me thinking about the Rare of old. So I've also been going back and playing some of my old favorites.

Rare has a long history dating back to 1982, starting with the ZX Spectrum and the game Jetpac.

So Legacy Platformers, what is your favorite Rare game of the legacy eras?

Mine favorite would have to be Donkey Kong Country. I spent a lot of time with it as a kid and still revisit it quite often. Most recently I've been playing through it again with my girlfriend.

Honorable mention goes to Goldeneye 007 and Banjo-Kazooie.

Edit: Added a picture or Rare logos so as to clear up any confusion as to what this thread is about; Rare the development studio, not "rare" games!

Donkey Kong Country (SNES) is my all-time favorite Rare game.

Playstation 1 Legend of Legai, Its better than the other A3 games.Uchiha_Sasuke1

Not a Rare game. He means the developer "Rare", not rare as in hard to find game.

I agree with the already mentioned Donkey Kong Country. An incredible platformer.

[QUOTE="Uchiha_Sasuke1"]Playstation 1 Legend of Legai, Its better than the other A3 games.Emerald_Warrior

Not a Rare game. He means the developer "Rare", not rare as in hard to find game.

Maybe I should have posted it as Rareware or Rare Ltd. :P

Starfox 64. I have Conker's Bad Fur Day and Perfect Dark, but never really cared for either of them. Star fox 64 however is probably one of the best N64 games I've played.

Donkey Kong 64, Conker, and Banjo Tooie.

One of my favorite games of all time.

Chasm the Rift.

And LSD: Dream Emulator.

Crash Team Racing (if it's rare enough :-))

Conker is still my favourite game, I didn't think much of the DKC series

I also quite like Diddy Kong Racing.

perfect dark,donkey kong 64,banjo kazooie, banjo tooie and diddy kong racing.All 5 are legendary games.

Chasm the Rift. And LSD: Dream Emulator. Crash Team Racing (if it's rare enough :-)) Spinnerweb

The original Donkey Kong Country on the SNES is my favorite and a very close second is GoldenEye on the N64.

Conker's Bad Fur Day - Definitely one of my favourite games of all time, loved the gameplay, the humour, the film pastiches.

Blast Corps - One of the most tense games of that generation, great idea for a game, original

Donkey Kong Country 2 - Fun game, more in-depth than the original, and glorious presentation (love Stickerbush Symphony)

Perfect Dark - Masses of fantastic multiplayer options, loved the sniper rifle sections too

Banjo Tooie - Prefer it to the original as its funnier and even slightly risqué at times, the game is very ambitious too.

Battletoads - Loads of over the top fun, its fairly difficult but really rewarding, and the speederbike section was always exhilarating as hell.

Battletoads Arcade Game - Funny game, shame it never got a console port

RC-Pro Am 2 - the closest you could get to 4-player Mario Kart on the NES

Snake Rattle N' Roll - Hard game (like all RARE's NES titles) but interesting and fun for 2-player

Jetpac - Along with Cookie this was one of the 1st generation of Spectrum games which rivalled the best 2600 games of the time.

Cookie - One of my favourites of their Spectrum games, its simple but addictive and requires a lot of skill.

Knight Lore - One of the 1st games where you really felt that you were exploring a proper environment, clever gameplay mechanics for the time. Its a little hard to play these days due to the inconsistent speeds though unfortunately

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There's lots of others that I like, but never really fell in love with Diddy Kong Racing (Multiplayer was never as good as Mario Kart, single player was cool though), Pssst (its a little too finicky for its own good), Donkey Kong 64 (the pacing holds the game back), Underwurlde (its ambitious, but controls like crap), Killer Instinct (Very respectable fighter, I just never got into it), Sabrewulf (the map is too big and unfocussed for a game without a save option), Goldeneye (great game but I missed it during its heyday and Ive never been a fan of post Roger Moore James Bonds or spy adventures in general), Banjo Kazooie (felt a bit like a rehash of Mario 64 in some ways, Tooie is waay better and has masses more personality)

Is Super Mario 64 rare? And Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)? Both of em then :-)

Is Super Mario 64 rare? And Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)? Both of em then :-)

Spinnerweb

Rare as in the games developer, not rare as in hard to get games.

Plus both of those games aren't rare anyway.

Is Super Mario 64 rare? And Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64)? Both of em then :-)

Spinnerweb

Conker's, Banjo-Kazooie, 007 & Perfect Dark

DK64, B-K, DKC, KI, GE, PD, BFD

Jetpac - Along with Cookie this was one of the 1st generation of Spectrum games which rivalled the best 2600 games of the time.

Domino_slayer

Jetpac is great! I actually just downloaded the remake on the XBLA.

Goldeneye 007 and Conker's Bad Fur Day, two very different games so i will go with both

Jetpac is great! I actually just downloaded the remake on the XBLA.AcidSoldner

Yeah, it was very cool at the time (though to be fair I 1st remember playing it a few years after it came out as whilst my family got it at the time, I was only born in 1983), always kind of felt like Defender mixed with Joust to me.

I actually still have my brother's original game (he doesn't care about this old stuff like I do)

[QUOTE="AcidSoldner"]Jetpac is great! I actually just downloaded the remake on the XBLA.Domino_slayer

Yeah, it was very cool at the time (though to be fair I 1st remember playing it a few years after it came out as whilst my family got it at the time, I was only born in 1983), always kind of felt like Defender mixed with Joust to me.

I actually still have my brother's original game (he doesn't care about this old stuff like I do)

Half-hour tape loading ftw :P

goldeneye 007

Banjo Kazooie

Conker's Bad Fur Day

Half-hour tape loading ftw :Pnameless12345

The Spectrum tape loading method isn't the same as the one used by Americans in their home computers, Spectrum tape access is 1500 Baud (and you can program in fast loaders on top of that), and is actually pretty decently reliable, early games such as Jetpac loaded in about two and a half minutes, later games from ~1989 rarely took more than maybe 6 or 7 minutes.

The Donkey Kong Country series, in my opinion, is Rare's greatest materpiece. Its not just the gameplay found in those SNES games, but its the unique art style and graphics, which really had never been seen prior to their release. The music really added to the atmosphere, and it was top notch. The sense of challenge was perfect, it took skill to beat some of the later stages, but there was a perfect balance of challenge and fun. I was very young when I started playing these games, and I still go back and play them to this day.

Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 007 are defintely at the top of that list. Banjo Kazooie deserves mention as well.

Goldeneye

Perfect Dark

Jet Force Gemini

Donkey Kong Country

Blast Corps

Banjo Tooie and DK64 are probably mine.

Banjo Kazooie. Too bad its "rebirth" on the 360 actually turned out to be the next nail in its coffin.

Banjo Kazooie. Too bad its "rebirth" on the 360 actually turned out to be the next nail in its coffin.

Bubble_Man