…as any fan of Rare and Nintendo’s former union might have reacted upon reading this.

It seems that the editor from IGNRevolution had a brief sit down with representatives of Microsoft and Rare while he was attending the Game Developers Conference last week, and he learned of some startling news.

No Rare licensed games will be available on Nintendo’s virtual console. As a result, a whole new generation of gamers will be deprived of Banjo-Kazooie, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Goldeneye 007 and - tragically - Perfect Dark. And I want to shove my fist through someone’s face when I think about no one being able to play Battletoads!

A lot of Rare’s early works with Nintendo were immensely successful and extremely popular due to the fact that they were solid games. However, no one else will be able to experience that unless they dig up a used N64 and equip themselves with the means to replace cartridge batteries after a few decades have worn them out.

R.I.P. Rare Titles.

That spiny devil known as Microsoft has corrupted your good name.

I really, really, pray that this is entirely false.