Editing Ultimate Play the Game (section)

===Rare Limited===
{{Main|Rare (company)}}

Shortly before the US Gold buyout, the name of another company, "Rare Limited", began appearing on the credits of Ultimate releases. This was in fact another company set up by the Stampers to develop for Ultimate, but not be subject to any Ultimate takeover. Rare (initially under the banner ''Rare: Designs on the Future'') would evolve, after Ultimate's demise, into a prolific developer for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]].<ref name="CRASH62p9"/> This led Nintendo to purchase a stake in the company, whose success was furthered with such classic [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] and [[Nintendo 64]] releases as ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' and ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|GoldenEye 007]]''. In 2002 Rare was purchased outright by [[Microsoft]]<ref name="Microsoft"/> for [[United States dollar|US$]]377&nbsp;million, a record fee for a video game developer, and currently develops games for the [[Xbox One]] console. At the end of 2006 Tim and Chris Stamper left Rare to "pursue other opportunities",<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3156140 | title = Rare Founders Leave to 'Pursue Other Opportunities' | access-date = 2 January 2007 | author = 1UP.com | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160528074508/http://www.1up.com/news/rare-founders-bolt | archive-date = 28 May 2016 }}</ref> ending a 24-year involvement in developing home video games.