L-R: Joel Hochberg and Chris Stamper of Rare, and Frank Ballouz, Howard Lincoln, and Minoru Arakawa of Nintendo.
GameSetWatch dug up this historical photograph from a 1986 issue of RePlay magazine -- it was a press photo sent out by Nintendo on the eve of the company's "first-ever signing of an outside software developer," Rare.
Rare and Nintendo: Where It All Began [GameSetWatch]

