Rare Shows Off Portable Mr. Pants

Thanks to IGN Pocket for its article revealing more details on Rare's Game Boy Advance puzzle title It's Mr. Pants, a THQ-published game from the now Microsoft-owned UK developer which is "the revival of... a Donkey Kong-branded puzzle game titled DK Coconut Crackers." The title, "a traditional puzzle game in the Tetris sense", includes "crazy, tripped out imagery and music, complete with Mr. Pants singing between levels" - there's more information on 'The History Of Pants' over at fansite Rare-Extreme.

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Re:Not much to say...

[KAMiKAZOW]

They left Rare.
Most talented ex-Rare people now word at Free Radical Design. They are likely the best known developer of ex-Rare people. They released the ego shooters Time Splitters (PS2) and Time Splitters 2 (PS2, CG, XB). Now they are working on Time Slitters 3 and an action adventure called Second Sight (both games are for PS2, CG, & XB).

There's also a small team called Zoonami. They have two games in development. One is a music game called Funkydilla (PS2, CG, XB). The other one had the codename Game Zero in the past. Almost nothing is known about it.

Another ex-Rare team is Third Wave Games. They are developing a PC game called War World.

Re:I thought that

[Aerion]

Why else would they come up with "Mr pants" ;-)

They came up with Mr. Pants long ago, when they were still working with Nintendo. I think a Mr. Pants cameo is hidden somewhere in Perfect Dark, and I know for sure that he appears in Banjo-Tooie. Mr. Pants is a long-running gag at Rare and not really a serious attempt at anything.

Re:I thought that

[Anonymous Coward]

First: MS did not buy Rare. They bought only 49% (IIRC) of Rare.

MS did actually buy RARE, as it reads on the developer's official site: Microsoft Acquires Video Game Powerhouse Rare Ltd.

The 49% thing was the deal they had with Nintendo, back in the days.