Slalom [5 Screw]
Slalom [5 Screw]
Slalom [5 Screw]
Slalom [5 Screw]
Slalom [5 Screw]
Slalom [5 Screw]

Slalom [5 Screw]

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Slalom holds a quiet but meaningful place in NES history. It was the first NES game developed outside Japan, the first game Tim and Chris Stamper released under the Rare name, and the first non-Japanese game Nintendo ever published. The story behind it is pure legend: when Nintendo initially declined to license the scrappy British studio, Rare reverse engineered the console and built Slalom as a demo to prove what it could do. Nintendo was impressed enough to make Rare its first Western developer, and that partnership would eventually give the world Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye 007 and Banjo-Kazooie.

The game is exactly what the title promises. You bomb down the mountain weaving through flags, and skiing on the wrong side of one forces a speed-killing snowplow. Trees, snowmen, sledders and rival skiers all conspire to knock you off your line, while moguls launch you into the air for freestyle tricks that earn bonus points if you stick the landing. There are 24 runs spread across three mountains, from the gentle Snowy Hill to Steep Peak and the aptly named Mount Nasty, and points earned in qualifying runs convert into extra seconds on solo runs with the slope all to yourself. It is simple by design, easy to pick up and hard to master.

Slalom started life in 1986 as VS. Slalom on Nintendo's VS. System arcade hardware, where an optional cabinet setup let players stand on shortened skis and hold real ski poles. On the NES it marked the first console soundtrack by David Wise, later the composer of Donkey Kong Country, who has recalled hand-coding every note and joking that his first NES tunes sounded like doorbells. The cheerful, colorful sprites and the sense of speed created by the scrolling course were what reviewers of the day singled out.

The five-screw cartridge shell is the earlier production format that predates the three-screw design Nintendo later standardized, a small but real distinction for collectors building a careful early-NES library. The game reappeared in Rare Replay on the Xbox One in 2015, but this cartridge is the original, the first chapter in one of gaming's great studio histories.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1987
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Rare
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

Slalom is a skiing video game in which the player races in a series of downhill slalom runs while navigating past flags and obstacles before time expires. Slalom was the first NES game developed outside Japan and the Stamper brothers' first game released under the Rare brand. Slalom was released in Rare's 2015 Rare Replay compilation for Xbox One.

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