#Rare Ltd

[venturetime]

Bear & Bird

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Happy new year! It’s 2024!

[tamara-kama]

The graphics were so good it fooled me into thinking they could somehow pull off making a 1:1 port of Killer Instinct to that system.

I was disappointed that it didn't turn out to be the case and KI was still scaled down quite a bit but the gameplay was still spot on and I got good practice playing it with an arcade joystick!

[isledekongobongo]

[lamazmorradelandroide]

‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Nes (1989)

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Top 47K - Ghosts 'n Goblins + Blast Corps

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Capcom’s spooky, tough-as-nails platformer, and chase it with Rare’s last-minute city-demolition classic.

[quinsixtridrupled-k]

my favorite character achetypes in media

[boinky-spoinky]

Thanks so much to Rareware for my art being part of the last Fanart Friday of 2023, I couldnt be much happier 😭😭😭😭

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 07/03/2024

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Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume FF

Ripped by The Green Spy

I'm forever going to be mad that I missed the chance to post this rip on February 7th (2.7) instead of Battle Emergency...but hey, 3.7 is pretty close to e as well, isn't it? Also, formal congratulations to the longest-yet title of a rip to be featured on the blog, up against stiff competition like The expanse of meme in past was split, A fiendish trap has now been set; Behind a tree the villains sit, Terror of sport, the Robbie's Net. and If I chopped Pikachu up in a meat grinder, and the only thing that comes out and is left of him is his eyeball, he's PROBABLY dead. Nay, I say, today's rip stands head and shoulders above them both! Today's rip, is Mr. 2​.​718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699959574966967627724076630353547594571382178525166427427466391932003059921817413596629043572900334295260595630738132328627943490763233829880753195251019011573834187930702154089149934884167509244761460668082264800168477411853742345442.

Setting aside the absurdity of the title for a moment though, there is some really fun stuff to dig into with this rip. You may recall, be it through having kept up with the blog or just being aware of SiIva's most well-remember rips in general, one of MtH's finest works in 【＝３】e-MUNO Disco (vs. 音MAD AGENT) - a Season 2 rip that I think permanently altered the way my brain functions in some way by being my first-ever exposure to Yousuke Yasui's music. Yet sitting amidst the primary jokes in that rip, be it "Minecraft With Gadget" as part of the Inspector Gadget takeover, as well as other then-relevant sources such as Rock My Forum of LAST YTPMV​^​2 OF 2016 fame and the greatest French rapper of our lifetime, there was one quite bizarre source - "e", by the math education YouTube channel Numberphile.

Numberphile's channel itself is incredibly wholesome and useful, and the people contributing to it like James Grime have a genuinely excellent knack for explaining and demonstrating complex concepts in a concise yet wholly understandable way. Their output isn't exactly something you'd think of as memetic - that is, of course, with the exception of the video featuring the funniest thumbnail ever put onto YouTube: e (Euler's Number) - Numberphile. It was simply a perfect storm: the rise in the use of "e" as part of deepfried ironic shitposting of the mid-2010s, the absurd enthusiasm James Grime shows in both the thumbnail and the video's introduction, the eloquence of which he explains the meaning of this silly letter. It only first showed up on SiIvaGunner itself during the start of Season 2, with the aptly titled rip "e", and became sort of a sleeper hit gag during the Season: hell, during this year's SiIvaGunner MAGFest panel, channel manager MtH confirmed that e is still one of her all-time favorite channel memes. And, yeah: its funny factor is shown to great effect in (brace yourselves!) Mr. 2​.​718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699959574966967627724076630353547594571382178525166427427466391932003059921817413596629043572900334295260595630738132328627943490763233829880753195251019011573834187930702154089149934884167509244761460668082264800168477411853742345442.

You take a source as prime for YTPMV-ing, sentence mixing and pitch shifting as the original Numberphile video, and attach it to perhaps the greatest YTPMV song of all time in Mr. Patch from Banjo-Tooie (Mr. PACs ~ Obamjo-Roomnie, anyone?), and the result is almost destined to be gold. Putting a source so reliant on making out what the narrator is saying together with a song infamous for its hectic tempo may well have been the biggest challenge preventing a rip like this from having been made, but let us not forget that this is The Green Spy we're dealing with here. And if there's anything I've gathered about The Green Spy as an anonymous contributor through their rips alone, rips like (YTPMV) Bob​-​Omb Battlesources and ESPECIALLY Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny, its that they truly know their stuff about YTPMVs.

The added visuals is just the cherry on top of it all. Though its standard for YTPMVs off of SiIva, and occasionally even on the channel itself such as with Crompton Racing, the visuals on Mr. 2​.​718281828459045235360287471352662497757247093699959574966967627724076630353547594571382178525166427427466391932003059921817413596629043572900334295260595630738132328627943490763233829880753195251019011573834187930702154089149934884167509244761460668082264800168477411853742345442 are so effective at punctuating every little surprise and detail made to the rip. Be it the surprise appearance of Jack Black's famous "dick!" sample, the brief change to suddenly start listing the number One repeatedly instead of the sequence of numbers that define the joke (and the title!), the uses of "e" from the fonts of WarioWare Smooth Moves, feature in the aforementioned first appearance of Numberphile on SiIva...while the joke hasn't been featured all too frequently on SiIva as of late, its rips like this that make the joke's reappearance always feel triumphant - its the kind of source you have to WORK for to make funny, and The Green Spy pulls it off with absolute aplomb.

[otisbeerdraws]

Fuzzy Xbox fellas I gotta draw again sometime! (From 2021)

[rygonbankazu]

Banjo-Kazooie turns 25 years old today!!!

This is my tribute for this incredible and funny videogame series, my most fav in my whole life. <3

[blayjane]

•┈••✦ ❤ ✦••┈• Kalus •┈••✦ ❤ ✦••┈•

Drew Kalus from Kameo Elements of power. the same game where my familial F/O, the Mystic is from!

[cucarachachavez]

While Grunty Industries from Banjo-Tooie is indeed a major pain in the ass, Hailfire Peaks is kinda a pain in the neck to get through. Going back and forth between two places can get a bit tiresome.

[tamara-kama]

Killer Instinct's 30th Anniversary of its arcade release is today!!

It was a total surprise when it showed up in my local arcade and it was just as big a sensation for us as Mortal Kombat at the time.

In the long run it didn't completely replace MK but I virtually love playing it just as much and it has aspects that I do think are better!

I remember the new toy syndrome other arcade gamers at the time where they only wanted to play KI and looked down at MKII and I could understand why but I didn't completely share that feeling. I never stopped loving the MK games! Even when my focus was KI!

[isledekongobongo]

[krissiefox]

Another Viva Pinata making-of video I found. This one features more about the music, with some scenes of Grant Kirkhope!

[bonsaitreehouse]

Managed to post these old pieces of Banjo-Kazooie fanart on Twitter before the clock rolled around so I stIll technically managed to successfully commemorate the original Nintendo 64 game’s 25th birthday 🥳