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Scott McCrae

We could've gotten a Banjo Kazooie cartoon in the '00s, but Xbox was breaking fans' hearts even then: "Microsoft did not see this as something that they wanted to invest in"

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An artist who worked for Pokemon production company 4Kids in the 2000s has shed some light on the Banjo Kazooie animated series that never was.

Banjo Kazooie fans have been long-suffering. After two beloved N64 platformers hit the scene, the series had a couple of GBA spinoffs while fans waited on the third entry to arrive. When it did, in the form of 2008's vehicle building simulator Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts – which was a good game (scholarly folks like me may even say, the best one) – but it wasn't the platformer that some fans wanted. Since then, the only real love shown to the characters was by Nintendo, when the Banjo Kazooie duo appeared as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC.

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