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vintagegamecrazy
02-03-2005, 03:15 AM
Come on what game/s are your favorite ones, Pick one.

Heres to jog your memory.

Battletoads
Battletoads Double Dragon
Snake Rattle n' Roll
Cobra Triangle
Captain Skyhawk
High Speed

among others.

My all time favorite is Snake Rattle n' Roll. I absolutely love the isometric 3D level design and just the whole concept and music are all great.
davidleeroth
02-03-2005, 04:41 AM
R.C. Pro-Am and Cobra Triangle. Cobra Triangle is a very cool racing/shooting hybrid and hideously underrated.
Berty
02-03-2005, 04:44 AM
What was the name of that rare game that was basically a horoscope? That would be my answer!
NintendoMan
02-03-2005, 09:45 AM
Are you sure RC Pro Am was developed by Rare? If it was that is my fav. Otherwise it's Cobra Triangle!
Ruudos
02-03-2005, 12:33 PM
What was the name of that rare game that was basically a horoscope? That would be my answer!

Taboo: The Sixth Sense
Cobra Commander
02-03-2005, 12:47 PM
Wizards and Warriors. All the way.
Proclus
02-03-2005, 01:32 PM
I'd go with the sheer genius of Battletoads, but other choices are similarly attractive...
Kroogah
02-03-2005, 01:34 PM
Slalom.

..................................

Seriously, Rare still hasn't topped NES Battletoads.
ScottK
02-03-2005, 02:02 PM
R.C. Pro-Am . Rad Racer runs a close second though.
fergojisan
02-03-2005, 03:59 PM
Rare did Wizards and Warriors? That gets my vote. Two, actually. :-P

DA-dum. Da-dum. Dum-dum da-dum!

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Dire 51
02-03-2005, 04:11 PM
Definitely Wizards & Warriors. The first only, Ironsword and Kuros: Visions Of Power were decent, but they failed to top the first one.
ArnoldRimmer83
02-03-2005, 04:11 PM
RC Pro Am
RC Pro Am 2
Snake Rattle n Roll
Solar Jetman
Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat (Very similar to Off Road.)
Slalom (Yes I'm being serious.)
GarrettCRW
02-03-2005, 04:27 PM
I'm going to fall in with the R.C Pro Am/Cobra Triangle camp here (as that was a *damn* good engine they created there). However, the home version of Marble Madness was ported quite excellently by Rare.
Cobra Commander
02-03-2005, 04:41 PM
Yeah Wizards was developed by Rare, and published by Acclaim.
squirrelnut
02-03-2005, 05:40 PM
Battle toads/double dragon. I loved this game to death. I own it for the NES, SNES and Genesis.
daynum
02-03-2005, 05:51 PM
I just recently got Solar Jetman and think thats great. Snake Rattle n Roll is another good one.
drewbrim
02-03-2005, 05:54 PM
Pirates! for me it's not even close
badinsults
02-03-2005, 06:35 PM
If you are talking NES, I really enjoyed Pinbot.
Crush Crawfish
02-03-2005, 08:21 PM
Battletoads all the way! :D
cracked8ball
02-03-2005, 08:43 PM
Nightmare on Elm Street was pretty good. RC Pro-AM and Cobra Triangle are some great games as well.
NeoZeedeater
02-03-2005, 09:18 PM
I think Battletoads was their best NES game followed by Cobra Triangle.

I really liked Slalom too but more the arcade version because of the ski controller. It wasn't quite the same with a control pad.
Sotenga
02-03-2005, 09:49 PM
I'll have to say Battletoads, as this game really grew on me, and unlike Snake Rattle & Roll or Cobra Triangle, I actually managed to friggin' beat it. It's a damn good game despite its insanity.
YoshiM
02-04-2005, 03:06 PM
Pirates! for me it's not even close

Wow, I had totally forgotten Rare did Pirates! Excellent conversion.

Wizards and Warriors and Battletoads are tops on my list.
Ruudos
02-04-2005, 05:13 PM
Rad Racer runs a close second though.


Rad Racer? That game was developed by Square.


My vote probably goes to Wizards & Warriors.
EnemyZero
02-08-2005, 03:01 PM
battletoads without a doubt, im not a huge rare fan but BT will always hold a place with me
NESaholic
02-08-2005, 06:54 PM
W&W,a mega good serie,highly enjoyable.
Battle vs Double,good beat and bash game.
Snake Rattle,great game,always fun to play.

my top three.
whoisKeel
02-09-2005, 05:10 PM
RC Pro Am, I just like it.

Last night I was playing Jeopardy with my roomates and it says Rare on the title screen...I didn't know that ;)
figgler
03-02-2005, 05:52 PM
If you are talking NES, I really enjoyed Pinbot.

Damn straight, that's the best pinball sim ever. Ever.
People will talk about Goldeneye this and Perfect Dark that, but IMO Rare's best work is in the NES titles mentioned here.
Graham Mitchell
03-04-2005, 07:48 AM
If you are talking NES, I really enjoyed Pinbot.

Damn straight, that's the best pinball sim ever. Ever.
People will talk about Goldeneye this and Perfect Dark that, but IMO Rare's best work is in the NES titles mentioned here.

I agree. You know, Rare had an edge over every other NES game designer. When the NES was first being brought over to Europe and the US, the president of Nintendo (Minoru Arikawa? spelling?) was looking for Western game developers, and he somehow found out about the Rare brothers, who were interested in working with the system. To test them, Arikawa gave them a NES, no instructions on how to develop for it or what it did, and told them to make a game. They had to experiment with thet thing for a long time to figure out how it worked, and in doing so, they discovered things that the NES could do that Nintendo themselves didn't even know about. No other developer ever really caught on to all the tricks. That's why Rare's games look so amazing compared to everybody else's--they knew things about the NES and could get it to do things that nobody else could.
Dr. Morbis
03-04-2005, 11:36 PM
I agree. You know, Rare had an edge over every other NES game designer. When the NES was first being brought over to Europe and the US, the president of Nintendo (Minoru Arikawa? spelling?) was looking for Western game developers, and he somehow found out about the Rare brothers, who were interested in working with the system. To test them, Arikawa gave them a NES, no instructions on how to develop for it or what it did, and told them to make a game. They had to experiment with thet thing for a long time to figure out how it worked, and in doing so, they discovered things that the NES could do that Nintendo themselves didn't even know about. No other developer ever really caught on to all the tricks. That's why Rare's games look so amazing compared to everybody else's--they knew things about the NES and could get it to do things that nobody else could.
Wow! That's really interesting. Any idea what the game was that they initially submitted to prove themselves? I think Slalom was their first released game, but I'm sure they made some smaller test game(s) before that.
Graham Mitchell
03-05-2005, 11:48 AM
I don't remember what the game was; it might not have even been a game. Rare did develop a few PC or Commodore titles before getting involved with Nintendo, one of which I think was called "Jetpack", so it could have been that. Check out Stephen L. Kent's book "the Ultimate History of Video Games" for the full story.

Slalom was definitely their first game they did for Nintendo, and I think it was for the Vs system first.