Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Remember when Rare was awesome?

[quote name="Fussbett"]And then Microsoft bought them and they made nothing but garbage? And the GoldenEye team broke off to make nothing but endless Timesplitters games? Jesus Christ. This is a good story from the Rare wikipedia (so probably a lie): [quote]In the early 1990s, Gamesmaster was one of Channel 4's biggest shows and was wanting to profile what went on inside Rare's [sic]. However, Bad Influence, a rival show—aimed for a much younger audience—was also keen to film a piece on the company. In not wanting the hassle of having two separate TV crews come and visit, Rare's management came up with a plan. They would grant a filming request only to the Yorkshire Television production team that made Bad Influence, on the provision that the show would then provide Gamesmaster with selective clips of what they filmed. The plan, however, backfired, when Gamesmaster's producers took offense in losing out to a rival show. Dominik Diamond was always known as a provocateur and as such insisted in vocalising his irritation in the way the show had been shunned by describing Tim and Chris Stamper as the "Physically unattractive Stamper brothers" in his voice-over. Since the broadcast of this episode to an audience of three million viewers, Rare turned their back completely on the broadcast media.[/quote] Haha British media. <img src="http://games.kikizo.com/media/rareware_int/rareware_artb.jpg">[/quote]