Category: Growing up with Rare
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Later RARE
A couple of months later, with our degrees in hand, one in Computer Science and the other in Professional Media, we headed down to London to attend a Computer Show, wishing to see Rare. Here the dreams would surely come true! I met a Lead Dev, and to say it didn’t go well was a…
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Early RARE
Sometime before the Ultimate demise, the Stampers had already decided to switch gaming platforms to Nintendo’s Entertainment System and had formed a separate company called RARE – Research And Reverse Engineering. From here Rare and I departed company, as I also switched platforms too, but to the Commodore Amiga instead. In 1992, my girlfriend (now…
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Ultimate Play the Game
The “computer game” has been with us now since Space Invaders was released in 1978, 35 years ago, cor blimey. In that timeframe I suspect the number of games that got cancelled for whatever reason outnumber those that got published. This blog is about a ‘failed game’, or more accurately a ‘failed app’, and whilst…