The people have made their voices heard in a vote, so some people at Rare have had to make a not-so-tasty move.

Tim Stamper, a co-founder of Rare, took to Twitter with a comment that he now regrets in all likelihood. He wrote that if the studio-made Banjo-Kazooie won a BAFTA award in a public vote, he would lick a 25-year-old BAFTA award chocolate replica. Eurogamer reported that Rare’s game had the momentum to reach the finals in the vote for best character duo. Link and Zelda went head-to-head against Banjo and Kazooie.

However, Stamper didn’t let it go as he pulled Grant Kirkhope, who also created some memorable music in Banjo-Kazooie, into the mix. Only Stamper didn’t expect Rare’s characters to win the audience vote, but they did, as Banjo and Kazooie received 53.8% of the vote. It could be that one of the UK’s most prestigious awards went to the game because it was made in a British studio, but it could also be that people simply picked up on Stamper’s bold statement…

Kirkhope’s initial response has since been deleted, but we’ll take PCGamer’s word for it that he wrote to Stamper (after he brought the musician into the matter) saying “haha, you first, Tim!” So humorous did the affair become that even BAFTA’s Twitter account reacted to Stamper’s promise to keep his promise, writing “We’re not sure if we can endorse this…” but what could go wrong? If Stamper simply spits it out afterward and then rinses the taste of two-and-a-half decades-old BAFTA award chocolate from his mouth, he won’t spend the subsequent day vomiting and diarrhea. Still, he will undoubtedly achieve one thing: half the internet will laugh at him, but he will honestly do what he promised…

There’s another way to look at the story: gamers still love Rare’s characters, and even though the studio has since gone from being one of the leading developers of the Nintendo 64 (suffice it to say GoldenEye 007…?) to a mainstay of Xbox Game Studios since the 2000s, the bear and the bird are still beloved characters…

Source: PCGamer