Tim Stamper Reveals 27-Year-Old Conker Banner at Rare's Manor Farm

Tim Stamper, co-founder of Rare, has posted new archival footage from Manor Farm that offers a rare glimpse into the UK studio's formative workspace — and in the video he uncovers a long-forgotten Conker banner that appears to have been in place for decades. The footage, shared via Stamper's InTimsWorld channel, shows the former Rare headquarters at Manor Farm in Twycross. Tim Stamper and a companion walk through one of the converted barns that served as development studios during Rare's early years. In the clip, Stamper asks whether the banner he finds might be the last surviving Conker banner, then carefully removes the cobweb-covered piece and rolls it up on camera. Stamper and his brother Chris founded Rare after their work with Ultimate Play the Game, and Manor Farm was an important location in the company’s history. The banner shown in the video had reportedly remained in place for at least 27 years — a span that covers Rare’s move from Manor Farm to its later purpose-built facility. The footage highlights the physical remnants of a studio that produced genre-defining work across multiple console generations. Conker is best known for Conker's Bad Fur Day, a mature-rated platformer released for Nintendo 64 in 2001. Rare’s catalog also includes high-profile titles such as Donkey Kong Country for SNES, GoldenEye 007 for Nintendo 64, and Banjo-Kazooie for Nintendo 64. In 2002, Rare was acquired by Microsoft, and the studio later produced titles for Xbox platforms, including the 2005 Xbox remake Conker: Live & Reloaded. For collectors, preservationists and longtime fans, Stamper’s video is notable because Rare has historically been guarded about internal operations and its development spaces. The Stamper brothers’ work at Ultimate Play the Game and Rare helped shape British game development in the 1990s and early 2000s, and tangible artifacts like the Conker banner are part of that legacy. Stamper’s archival posts on InTimsWorld continue to attract attention from the Rare community and gaming historians. This latest clip gives an unusual, on-the-ground look at Manor Farm and underscores the enduring cultural footprint of a developer whose titles launched on Nintendo platforms and later transitioned to Xbox under Microsoft ownership.