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One Microsoft executive thought they owned Donkey Kong when they bought RARE
- Thread starter ShellyDeKiller
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Mass Effect
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Manmademan
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aren't "mushroom zombies" the plot to TLOU
Thank god this never happened.
Hazelhurst
Member
Any guesses on how much MS would have to pay? $20 billion?
Breakfast at Noon
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look carefully at the picture.
Proelite
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Graphics look good, where is this from?
Nintendo published everything up until Banjo Kazooie, so almost certainly not. If Rare still owned the IP, you wouldn't even have a DKCR to begin with.
Freezie KO
Banned
Darn. We could've got a F2P Donkey Kong Country 4, and each barrel only costs $2.99.
Why?
Succinct Verbosity
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Didn't microsoft try and purchase Nintendo at its lowest point?
With intense first person peanut-shooting action.
Poltergust
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Huh? No, it isn't. I've seen plenty of people saying it's the best platformer of Gen 7. Well, 2D platformer, at least.
can we put a moratorium on examiner "articles"? they're not even articles, they're not a news site, just shitty, unpaid bloggers shamelessly hit-whoring; all it serves to do is put up yet another layer between the primary source and me. /rant
edit: I see this was already mentioned. but I suppose it bears repeating.
edit: I see this was already mentioned. but I suppose it bears repeating.
Yes.
You better believe it could. After what's happened to dozens of Microsoft's studios (including Rare) how could you not think DK would be in worse hands?
Also, Returns is hands down the best Donkey Kong Country and Tropical Freeze looks to top it.
TheShampion
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Well, they did make those Panasonic Zelda games. Microsoft owning the rights of a DK game in some fashion wouldn't be totally without precedent. Hell, maybe that's why the DKC games came down from the Virtual Console.
KennyLinder
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There was always that story that when Microsoft went to buy Nintendo (before Xbox came out), they went to Nintentdo of America 
Not sure how much truth was in that, it was in the Xbox story book...
Not sure how much truth was in that, it was in the Xbox story book...HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I don't understand why this is even shocking.
This kind of stuff happens all the time.
This kind of stuff happens all the time.
Admittedly I suppose if it was a drive to the other side of the highway I WOULD try that first before booking tickets to another country.There was always that story that when Microsoft went to buy Nintendo (before Xbox came out), they went to Nintentdo of America
Neither Rare nor MS own the the Donkey Kong Country games.
However, what is SLIGHTLY plausible is that the presence of the Rare logo in the games requires permission or licensing from MS... I'm not sure if that's what's going on, but I could actually see that being a vague issue -- Nintendo got the rights to reissue titles with the Rare logo until ____.
Again, that's just my speculation, but it makes more sense than anything else I can think of.
Dr Zhivago
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There was always that story that when Microsoft went to buy Nintendo (before Xbox came out), they went to Nintentdo of America
MS & NoA are literally next-door neighbours though.
kyoya
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The big reality is that many video game executives have no clue what IP their employer owns. Case in point, a group of visitors were in a meeting at Atari Interactive in NYC (aka Infogrames), and the topic of what IP Atari owned came up. The Atari executives had no clue they owned the IP to Ocean Software, Beam Software, Accolade, etc, until their visitors (who shall remain nameless) told them.
You want to know why you don't see that certain remake or classic IP get rereleased? Executvies have no idea what they've got.
You want to know why you don't see that certain remake or classic IP get rereleased? Executvies have no idea what they've got.
dark_prinny
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Fox Mulder
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Of course Nintendo owns the IP, there's just weird stuff surrounding the Rare games.
Yeah, this is kind of the definition of stirring shit.
For all we know, this is an anecdote about a board member that hasn't been with the company for years at this point.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Microsoft should save Mario!!11!!!1!
DICKS AHOY
Banned
It'd probably be insanely easy to just null out the instances of those Rare logos in the game's intros though, and given they topped the VC chart's it's not like Nintendo wouldn't have bothered. My money is on Rare *somehow* still having a stake in the code of the games itself, an agreement Nintendo reached with Microsoft during the buyout but expired after a decade last year.
also after how smashingly well microsoft's handling of rare went, I'm sure them buying Nintendo out in a hypothetical 'everything fucking sucks' universe would've gone similarly well for all involved
The DKC games being removed is mysterious but Rare's DK characters have appeared in various spin-offs and party titles over the years. The Kremlings and K.Rool are in Mario Strikers, Brawl, etc.
Retro didn't use them because they're lame.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
hey maybe retro didn't use them because you're lame did you ever think of that
Don't shoot the messenger. If Retro gave a shit about those guys they'd have been in the new DKC games. The Kremlings are from another era.
IdreamofHIME
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Diddy Kong Racing HD on XBLA
*drools*
To be honest, outside of DKCR the DK franchise has been pretty shit since Rare left it and it was only a facsimile of their work that has brought greatness back furry bastard.
*drools*
To be honest, outside of DKCR the DK franchise has been pretty shit since Rare left it and it was only a facsimile of their work that has brought greatness back furry bastard.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
Seriously though while I'm ultimately indifferent about whether they come back or not (though I maintain K. Rool's a hilarious villain whose identity crisis/multiple personality disorder needs to be explored more), I saw the tiki's (who were cool in their own right) as Nintendo compromising on Retro's desire to do something new and let them have more creative liberties with DK than they had with Metroid.
Before Transformed and MK7 I'd of wanted a Diddy Kong Racing 2, but at this point it seems pretty redundant. Jungle Beat and Jungle Climber were great games in an otherwise dumb, gimmicky period of Donkey Kong.
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Awesome! Lol
Luigi in the first screen has a mushroom and in the second the italian flag!
Maybe, why did Rare split up with Nintendo, anyways?
PumpkinPie
Banned
HAHAHA!
On another note... imagine what DK under MS would've been like...
DK64 already had guns.