If you're familiar with game collecting, you should know that the 80s and 90s were a very different time for the collecting scene. You had store variants, not for resale cartridges, games meant for ...

Kyle Bell is a Commerce Editor from the US. He has been gaming since the age of three when his obsession with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon led to countless hours and quarters spent in the ...

On August 4, 2025, Rare officially turns 40 years old, a landmark accomplishment for Xbox's most celebrated game studio. Rare developed some of the most influential and greatest console games of all ...

Rare's had gems throughout the ages and I've loved its games from every era, whether you're talking about R.C. Pro-Am, the original Killer Instinct, GoldenEye 007, or Sea of Thieves. Of course, I ...

Killer Instinct grabs this last slot because it got a relatively recent reboot in 2013. That said, Rare wasn’t too involved with that game, as it was working on other projects. Either way, the ...

Snake Rattle ‘n’ Roll dropped on the NES in 1990, making it the second-oldest game here. A platformer where you control a hungry snake, the objective is to eat as many “Nibbley Pibbleys” as you can to ...

iam8bit and Xbox Game Studios are working together for a new release, as they announced the Rare 40th Anniversary Box Set earlier this month. This four-LP set will include iconic tracks from over two ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Donkey Kong 64 may be clunky today, even with nostalgia helping it, but it was an incredible game ...

At the end of November last year, Evercade released two new cartridges — one full of games from Rare's back catalogue, and another from Activision. Xbox obviously owns both of these companies, so they ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

The packaging for the Atari 2600 game "Air Raid" (1982) - YouTube/Retro Game On After dominating the industry until the video game crash of 1983, the Atari 2600 and its cartridge-based games have ...