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Star Fox Adventures

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Star Fox Adventures U.S. Release Date: September 23, 2002 The GameCube Archives Score: 8.0/10 I remember telling someone in the late 90's, "I'll take Nintendo and Rare over Sony and Squaresoft." I said this from a place of deep, Nintendo-fan pain, as I tried to console myself for the fact that the company who had  once made so many treasured games for Nintendo was then working exclusively for Sony. The only relief from this pain was the fact that Rare, a video game developer who seemed to pump out awesome titles such as Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie like clockwork, was exclusive to Nintendo. And then, in the strange new world of post 9/11, they weren't. Nintendo sold Rare to Microsoft. Star Fox Adventures would be Rare's first game for the Nintendo GameCube...and their last game for Nintendo. Who needs development studios, anyway, amirite? And yet, shockingly, this isn't the only controversy surrounding Star Fox Adventures . The game actually b