{"id":134157,"date":"2023-08-11T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-153883"},"modified":"2023-08-11T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T19:00:00","slug":"random-former-rare-dev-shares-first-ever-drawing-of-conker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/random-former-rare-dev-shares-first-ever-drawing-of-conker\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Former Rare Dev Shares First-Ever Drawing Of Conker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9bbe02fa753a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9bbe02fa753a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Conker\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9bbe02fa753a\/conker.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9bbe02fa753a\/conker.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Conker\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Rare<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former developer at Rare Chris Seavor has been sharing video game history on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conkerhimself\/status\/1690014919893135360\">Twitter<\/a>. And today&#8217;s little tidbit is a pretty fun one \u2014 Seavor has found the first-ever drawing of Conker the Squirrel.<\/p>\n<p>Seavor teased his followers earlier today about &#8220;<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conkerhimself\/status\/1689972454024794112\">some &#8216;curious&#8217; old scribbles<\/a>&#8221; that he found, and as promised, he later shared photos of the sketches that he created from back in the day. Rare fans will know that Seavor not only designed the squirrel, but he was also the voice of the mischief-maker<\/p>\n<p>Conker looks drastically different from what we&#8217;re used to from Rare&#8217;s foul-mouthed squirrel \u2014 who is probably most well-known from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/conkers_bad_fur_day\">Conker&#8217;s Bad Fur Day<\/a>. In fact, the sketch Seavor has is from a time when Conker was going to be the star of a family-friendly platformer, known as <strong>Conker 64<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/conkerhimself\/status\/1690014919893135360 @ 2023-08-11T19:43:33+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So, this is the first ever scrappy sketch of Conker, from even before Twelve Tales, when it was called Conker 64&#8230;. I guess it&#8217;s of historic interest&#8230; (yes, he had clogs. NOT my idea btw) &#8230;. heh \ud83d\ude06 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/umztadRxCl\">pic.twitter.com\/umztadRxCl<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Chris Seavor \ud83d\udc40 (@conkerhimself) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conkerhimself\/status\/1690014919893135360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The design reflects that, too \u2014 Conker has much bigger ears and a pointier tail, and he&#8217;s even wearing clogs in one doodle. It&#8217;s way closer to a red squirrel than what we eventually ended up getting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/diddy_kong_racing\">Diddy Kong Racing<\/a> (though his ears are still slightly pointed there) and subsequent appearances. Another big difference is that the original Conker looks to be wearing overalls or dungarees. Eventually, the squirrel would swap this out for a simple top, and eventually a zipper jacket.<\/p>\n<p>One eager fan asked whether this design was inspired by Snarf from Thundercats, with Seavor admits that he has &#8220;<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conkerhimself\/status\/1690020461923426304\">no memory<\/a>&#8221; of what he was thinking when he created these doodles.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/retro\/related-articles:96463,88445 @ 2023-08-11T22:14:28+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>We already knew that Conker could have been a <em>very<\/em> different game, but this design really hammers it home. Imagine playing through a Conker game with a pointy-eared squirrel instead. These sketches are very cool, and yet another fascinating piece of almost lost history.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think of the original design for Conker? Do you prefer it to what we eventually got? Let us know<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Rare Former developer at Rare Chris Seavor has been sharing video game history on Twitter. And today&#8217;s little tidbit is a pretty fun one \u2014 Seavor has found the first-ever drawing of Conker the Squirrel. Seavor teased his followers earlier today about &#8220;some &#8216;curious&#8217; old scribbles&#8221; that he found, and as promised, he later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}