06-27-2019, 09:41 AM
Random: Rare’s Logo Is Actually A Golden Toilet Roll
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<p>Despite being gobbled up by Microsoft back in 2002, Rare remains one of the most important and loved developers in the Nintendo scene to this day. For years, the studio created classic after classic – games like <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/gameboy/battletoads">Battletoads</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/snes/donkey_kong_country">Donkey Kong Country</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/n64/goldeneye_007">GoldenEye 007</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/n64/banjo_kazooie">Banjo-Kazooie</a></strong> instantly spring to mind – and the company logo was commonly found gracing our screens as we loaded up our favourite titles.</p>
<p>Amazingly, though, we never realised just what the logo actually was. We assumed, as we’re sure many of you reading this would have done, that the logo is simply a letter ‘R’, but it turns out that it’s actually a “golden toilet roll” created by ex-Rare artist Kevin Bayliss.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><span lang="en" dir="ltr">I did the Gokden Toilet roll, on the blue background, and then the updated simpler ‘R’ logo which appeared years later.</span>— Kevin Bayliss (@FulgoreAndMore) <a href="https://twitter.com/FulgoreAndMore/status/1143595786061697029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>You can see the old “toilet paper” logo and the newer ‘R’ logo below.</p>
<figure class="picture strip"><a title="Rare's old logo (on the left), and the newer logo (on the right)" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/494c801ebd9fd/rares-old-logo-on-the-left-and-the-newer-logo-on-the-right.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/494c801ebd9fd/rares-old-logo-on-the-left-and-the-newer-logo-on-the-right.original.png" alt="Rare's old logo (on the left), and the newer logo (on the right)"></a><figcaption class="caption">Rare’s old logo (on the left), and the newer logo (on the right)</figcaption></figure>
<p>The video below shows the cinematic intro for <strong>Conker: Live & Reloaded</strong> which released on Xbox in 2005. If you watch from around the 40 second mark, you’ll notice that the Rare logo actually fades into a toilet roll on screen. We can already sense comments flying in saying “well duh, this was obvious”, but we’re sure there are plenty of people out there who never made the connection.</p>
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<p><em>If there was ever an interesting bit of gaming trivia worth showing off to your friends, we’d say this is probably it.</em></p>
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<p>Despite being gobbled up by Microsoft back in 2002, Rare remains one of the most important and loved developers in the Nintendo scene to this day. For years, the studio created classic after classic – games like <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/gameboy/battletoads">Battletoads</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/snes/donkey_kong_country">Donkey Kong Country</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/n64/goldeneye_007">GoldenEye 007</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/n64/banjo_kazooie">Banjo-Kazooie</a></strong> instantly spring to mind – and the company logo was commonly found gracing our screens as we loaded up our favourite titles.</p>
<p>Amazingly, though, we never realised just what the logo actually was. We assumed, as we’re sure many of you reading this would have done, that the logo is simply a letter ‘R’, but it turns out that it’s actually a “golden toilet roll” created by ex-Rare artist Kevin Bayliss.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><span lang="en" dir="ltr">I did the Gokden Toilet roll, on the blue background, and then the updated simpler ‘R’ logo which appeared years later.</span>— Kevin Bayliss (@FulgoreAndMore) <a href="https://twitter.com/FulgoreAndMore/status/1143595786061697029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>You can see the old “toilet paper” logo and the newer ‘R’ logo below.</p>
<figure class="picture strip"><a title="Rare's old logo (on the left), and the newer logo (on the right)" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/494c801ebd9fd/rares-old-logo-on-the-left-and-the-newer-logo-on-the-right.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/494c801ebd9fd/rares-old-logo-on-the-left-and-the-newer-logo-on-the-right.original.png" alt="Rare's old logo (on the left), and the newer logo (on the right)"></a><figcaption class="caption">Rare’s old logo (on the left), and the newer logo (on the right)</figcaption></figure>
<p>The video below shows the cinematic intro for <strong>Conker: Live & Reloaded</strong> which released on Xbox in 2005. If you watch from around the 40 second mark, you’ll notice that the Rare logo actually fades into a toilet roll on screen. We can already sense comments flying in saying “well duh, this was obvious”, but we’re sure there are plenty of people out there who never made the connection.</p>
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<p><em>If there was ever an interesting bit of gaming trivia worth showing off to your friends, we’d say this is probably it.</em></p>
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