Soundwave on 23 February 2015
They deserve a lot of credit to be honest, they basically won the 16-bit wars for Nintendo with Donkey Kong Country and then they saved the N64 with GoldenEye, Blast Corps, Diddy Kong Racing, and Banjo-Kazooie filling in key gaps otherwise that would've been a loooooooong wait in between Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
GoldenEye alone carried the console for months on end. Nintendo literally had nothing for holiday 1997, Rare bailed them out with GoldenEye and DKR, otherwise things would've gotten really, really ugly.
