The team at Rare had already established themselves as marque video game developers by the mid 90’s. Previous titles like Battletoads, Knight Lore and Sabre Wulf had earned the company’s founders Tim and Chris Stamper critical acclaim. Not happy to rest on their laurels when Nintendo bought up a majority share in the company in 1994. The brothers saw it as a chance to take on one of Nintendo’s characters and innovate on the medium. Continue reading
“Leave Luck To Heaven” is the translation for the Japanese video game company Nintendo. The company would see its rise to prominence out of the ashes of the 1983 video game crash. Continue reading
Donkey Kong was not only responsible for Nintendo breaking into the American market but also featured a protagonist that would become one of the companies’ most iconic figures. The game also looked to set milestones in the industry for technical innovation, it pioneered new game development techniques and was one of the earliest examples of multileveled games with only Midway’s Gorf proceeding it. It helped define the platform genre of games which it would later return to in the Spin-off Mario Bros games that helped lift the company to legendary status within the video game community. Continue reading