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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Bocsius on September 23, 2008, 11:48:56 PM

Title: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Bocsius on September 23, 2008, 11:48:56 PM: The good news is that they're eligible for the government's $700 billion toxic asset buyback program!
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 23, 2008, 11:51:49 PM: September 24, 2002. A day which shall live in infamy.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Greatness Gone on September 23, 2008, 11:51:52 PM: Shit devs. Conker was fun, though.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: The Fake Shemp on September 23, 2008, 11:55:17 PM: I still remember when I pranked that buyout prior to actually happening. :lol
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: pilonv1 on September 23, 2008, 11:56:03 PM: :lol that was awesome.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Bocsius on September 23, 2008, 11:58:37 PM: Quote from: Willco on September 23, 2008, 11:55:17 PM
I still remember when I pranked that buyout prior to actually happening. :lol

The Cubites' meltdowns were glorious.

If only Rare's games were as numerous and entertaining.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Crushed on September 23, 2008, 11:59:44 PM: 9/24 never 4get
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: y2kev on September 24, 2008, 12:01:14 AM: agent icebeezy and mcdragon stand vigilant
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: The Sceneman on September 24, 2008, 12:08:24 AM: I enjoyed a few of rare's n64 games, DKR, Banjo and Conker was awesome
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Bocsius on September 24, 2008, 12:08:58 AM: Diddy Kong Racing is one of my favorite games ever.

But that was 1997.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: The Sceneman on September 24, 2008, 12:11:52 AM: 1997 ruled, did Resident Evil 2 come out then or was that 98'?
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Bocsius on September 24, 2008, 12:18:35 AM: Don't know. I was all about kart racing and NFL QB Club 98. Sure, the players ran slow as all get out but they were at least wearing NFL uniforms, as opposed to Madden 64 that year.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: y2kev on September 24, 2008, 12:29:52 AM: Quote from: Scenester on September 24, 2008, 12:11:52 AM
1997 ruled, did Resident Evil 2 come out then or was that 98'?

jan or feb 08
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: laesperanzapaz on September 24, 2008, 12:29:59 AM: :bow rare

one of the greatest developers in the history of everyall
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on September 24, 2008, 12:31:20 AM: would Microsoft buy anybody for 300 million nowadays? Fricking Harmonix and their billion $ franchise sold for like 1/3rd of Rare's price, or am I remembering that wrong?
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Bocsius on September 24, 2008, 12:33:12 AM: Yeah, but BioWare/Pandemic sold for some unholy figure. North of $800 million, I believe.

I don't think Microsoft would do the Rare purchase or anything like it again, however.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 24, 2008, 12:36:05 AM: Conker was awesome, but Banjo Tooie, Donkey Kong 64, and Star Fox Adventure were all snooze-fests. I was not sorry to see them leave the Nintendo fold.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Crushed on September 24, 2008, 12:40:34 AM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 24, 2008, 12:36:05 AM
Conker was awesome, but Banjo Tooie, Donkey Kong 64, and Star Fox Adventure were all snooze-fests. I was not sorry to see them leave the Nintendo fold.

you gay
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: CajoleJuice on September 24, 2008, 12:43:57 AM: Quote from: Willco on September 23, 2008, 11:55:17 PM
I still remember when I pranked that buyout prior to actually happening. :lol

:bow Lord Federman :bow2
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 24, 2008, 12:48:16 AM: I couldn't bring myself to play more than two or three hours into Banjo Tooie.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Bildi on September 24, 2008, 01:28:10 AM: Wow, that's a long time ago.

Which means the last good games they did (being Jet Force Gemini and Blast Corps) were even longer ago.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: pilonv1 on September 24, 2008, 01:37:13 AM: Quote from: CajoleJuice on September 24, 2008, 12:43:57 AM
Quote from: Willco on September 23, 2008, 11:55:17 PM
I still remember when I pranked that buyout prior to actually happening. :lol

:bow Lord Federman :bow2

http://forums.modojo.com/showthread.php?t=28631&page=2

:lol
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Guybrush Threepwood on September 24, 2008, 08:41:53 PM: I actually really like Rare's games. Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, Jet Force Gemini, CBFD, Viva Pinata... all top-notch games to me.

Hell, I even like Kameo.
Title: Re: September 24... Six years ago, Microsoft bought Rare
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 24, 2008, 09:33:37 PM: Rare isn't that bad. It is just that for the amount they were purchased for, it wasn't worth it.

Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing, and Blast Corps were fuck awesome.

Quote from: pilonv1 on September 24, 2008, 01:37:13 AM
http://forums.modojo.com/showthread.php?t=28631&page=2

:lol

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i fell my IQ going down the drain!

Why, yes. Yes it did.