Random: Rare Co-Founder Tim Stamper Teases ‘Dream 64’ Development Cartridge

Rare had a successful run during its time with Nintendo but not every project necessarily saw the light of day. One of these games was a role-playing title codenamed Project Dream. It started out on the Super Nintendo and was eventually scaled back during the Nintendo 64 era before parts of it morphed into other projects.

While a Super Nintendo version is believed to have existed, it seems now we’ve got actual photo evidence of Dream 64, after the Rare co-founder Tim Stamper randomly uploaded a single photo on social media, with the following text attached: “Arr….! So it’s true… Dream 64 does exist after all…!”.

In the picture, you can see a Nintendo 64 development cartridge running on an N64. Next to it is an NTSC Super Nintendo version of the Dream Project. The N64 cart is labelled the “latest version of Dream 64” and dated 21st November 1996.

Famous Rareware composer Grant Kirkhope responded to a message about Stamper’s tweet suggesting it had the intro on it as well as “some” gameplay. While it’s unclear just how far development got, as already noted, it eventually turned into other projects like Banjo-Kazooie.

In recent years, this isn’t the only unreleased Rare project to resurface online. The Nintendo 64 game Dinosaur Planet (which went on to become Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube) was leaked online, and the unreleased version of GoldenEye 007 XBLA for Xbox 360 also got an unofficial release.

Rare had a successful run during its time with Nintendo but not every project necessarily saw the light of day. One of these games was a role-playing title codenamed Project Dream. It started out on the Super Nintendo and was eventually scaled back during the Nintendo 64 era before parts of it morphed into other projects.

While a Super Nintendo version is believed to have existed, it seems now we’ve got actual photo evidence of Dream 64, after the Rare co-founder Tim Stamper randomly uploaded a single photo on social media, with the following text attached: “Arr….! So it’s true… Dream 64 does exist after all…!”.

In the picture, you can see a Nintendo 64 development cartridge running on an N64. Next to it is an NTSC Super Nintendo version of the Dream Project. The N64 cart is labelled the “latest version of Dream 64” and dated 21st November 1996.

Famous Rareware composer Grant Kirkhope responded to a message about Stamper’s tweet suggesting it had the intro on it as well as “some” gameplay. While it’s unclear just how far development got, as already noted, it eventually turned into other projects like Banjo-Kazooie.

In recent years, this isn’t the only unreleased Rare project to resurface online. The Nintendo 64 game Dinosaur Planet (which went on to become Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube) was leaked online, and the unreleased version of GoldenEye 007 XBLA for Xbox 360 also got an unofficial release.