Rare had interest in amiibo-style toys during the N64 era
Former Rare developer Chris Seavor shared interesting insight into the studio’s past on Twitter. In a message published yesterday, Seavor showed an image of the unreleased title Urchin, which would have had toys-to-life functionality similar to that of amiibo.
That’s as follows:
Scanner works finally… Oh look, Urchin was gonna have an Amiibo a decade before they were even a thing !!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/JjnLcmUjzm
— Christopher Seavor (@conkerhimself) January 11, 2016
Seavor continued the discussion with one fan on Twitter and noted that an amiibo-like idea was something Rare gave some thought to “years and years ago during the N64 cycle.”
@IOnEI_Falcon It was just toy, although I remember T&C wanted to do Amiibo style things with toys years and years ago during the N64 cycle.
— Christopher Seavor (@conkerhimself) January 11, 2016