Retro Studios

Retro Studios, Inc. is an American first-party video game developer and a subsidiary of Nintendo based in Austin, Texas. The studio is notable for developing Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country games.

Cancelled games

 * 1) Action-Adventure (working title)
 * 2) NFL Retro Football
 * 3) Car Combat/Thunder Rally (working titles)
 * 4) Raven Blade

Why They Rock

 * 1) They rose to promince developing the Metroid Prime trilogy from 2002 to 2007, successfully bringing the popular Metroid franchise into 3D.
 * 2) Later on, they also started developing Donkey Kong Country games, taking that job over from Rare who originally created them.
 * 3) All of their games have sold incredibly well. Even the ones that were less positively received, such as Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, are still beloved.
 * 4) Metroid Prime was very important becuase lots of people didn't believe that they could successfully turn Metroid into 3D, and Retro Studios proved them wrong.
 * 5) Other than Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country they also did a good job at making Mario Kart 7.