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Endpoint: Rare Coin It, Inc.



created on: 26/04/2016
by: ruben65 (147)
 
 

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Rare Coin It, Inc. was a subsidiary company of Rare Ltd. based in the U.S., and is credited on a few NES games and arcade machines.

Rare Ltd. is an English game developer, based in Leicestershire and is most famous for titles such as Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and, more recently, Kinect Sports.

Rare Ltd. was founded in 1982 as Ashby Computers and Graphics Limited by brothers Tim and Chris Stamper, along with John Lathbury and Carole Ward.
Publishing games under the name Ultimate Play the Game, they initially produced a quartet of best-selling games (Jetpac, Tranz Am, Pssst, and Cookie) for the ZX Spectrum.

The "Ultimate" name and catalog was sold in 1985 to U.S. Gold to prevent a buyout of the whole company.

The Stamper brothers then started creating games under the name Rare: Designs on the Future which was changed to RareWare, and then later shortened to simply Rare. Rare continued to have success with its titles but began to focus solely on the extremely popular NES platform. The Rare Coin-It brand was used by a subsidiary company based in the U.S., and is credited on a few NES games and arcade machines.
In September 2002, Rare was acquired by Microsoft to develop games on their Xbox platform.
On 2 January 2007, Chris and Tim, the original founders, left the company to "pursue other opportunities,"
In February 2010 Microsoft announced it would create a new 11,000 sq ft facility in Fazeley Studios, located in Digbeth, Birmingham, for Rare to use as a "production, test, and usability site."
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Submitted by : ruben65 (147)
on : 26/04/2016