Rare (video game company)

Rare Ltd., formerly known as Rareware, is a UK-based video game development company. It was founded in 1983 by brothers Tim and Chris Stamper. Rare was a second-party developer for the Nintendo gaming platforms for several years, but in 2002 was acquired by Microsoft.

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UK - Video game development company - 1983 - Tim - Chris Stamper - Second-party developer - Nintendo - 2002 - Microsoft

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The company is notable for having created an unusually large number of original hit games, and for the company's price tag: Microsoft paid US$377 million for the company, a record for a video game developer.

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Rare was originally called Ashby Computer Graphics (ACG), though they sometimes released their games under the name Ultimate Play The Game.

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