 Slalom was developed by British video game company Rare by Tim and Chris Stamper . Rare had been looking to develop games for consoles in the wake of rampant computer game piracy in the United Kingdom . They chose the NES for its nascent popularity , though the console had no Western developers , and asked Nintendo for a license . When Nintendo declined , they reverse engineered the console and made a demo , Slalom to show the company . Nintendo was astonished at their effort , and made Rare its first Western developer , beginning a long and close collaboration between Rare and Nintendo of America founder and president Minoru Arakawa . 
