Rare Co-Founder Uncovers Some Unreleased Treasures

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Conker the Squirrel was a red squirrel who appeared in many of Rare’s video games. He first appeared in Diddy Kong Racing alongside Diddy Kong and received his own series of platform games. However, the most notable game centred around the red squirrel was Conker’s Bad Fur Day, one of Rare’s more mature games, which replaced the intended family-friendly, Twelve Tales: Conker 64. While digging through some old boxes Tim Stamper, a co-founder of Rare, found some old never, released games, including the cancelled Twelve Tales: Conker, and decided to share them with the internet.

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In 2008, the Stamper brothers left Rare, and based on the many photos he shared with the internet recently, Tim Stamper took quite a few things with him. He started by sharing an image of several plastic storage containers, boxes and what looks to be a cardboard cut out of Conker, along with the words, “Are people still interested in this junk?!” And then told interested fans to head to Instagram for sneak peeks of the retro game collection.

Among the collection, he found the now-very rare Donkey Kong Country Crate, which contained a copy of the platformer, folders from the DKC production and a SNES console. He also found Twelves Tales: Conker’s development cartridges, which he posted an image of captioned, “I have way more than Twelve Tales to tell…”

He later posted a short clip using the development cartridgeto boot the game. He switched on the Nintendo 64 and let the game run through a quick logo and intro sequence, which saw Conker being harassed by some green enemies. He ran back across to harass them back before being chased by an orange T-Rex. A masked wizard rose onto the screen before