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((short description|1980 sports video game))
((Infobox video game
| title = Skiing 
| image = Skiing Intellivision.jpg
| caption= 
| developer = [[Mattel]]
| publisher = Mattel
| designer = Scott Reynolds<ref name="INTVlives">((cite web|url=http://www.intellivisiongames.com/gamepage.php?gameId=115|title=Skiing|publisher=IntellivisionLives.com|access-date=2010-08-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211000239/http://www.intellivisiongames.com/gamepage.php?gameId=115|archive-date=2010-02-11))</ref>
| released = ((vgrelease|NA|1980))
| genre = [[Sports video game|Sports]]
| modes = [[Single-player video game|Single player]], [[Multiplayer video game|multiplayer]]
| platforms = [[Intellivision]]
))

'''''Skiing''''' (released as '''''U. S. Ski Team Skiing''''') is a sports [[video game]] produced by [[Mattel]] and released for its [[Intellivision]] [[gaming console|video game system]] in 1980.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.gamefaqs.com/intellivision/581779-us-ski-team-skiing|title=U.S. Ski Team Skiing for Intellivision|publisher=[[GameFAQs]]|access-date=2010-08-06))</ref> Up to six players compete individually on either a [[Downhill (ski competition)|downhill]] or [[slalom skiing|slalom]] course to see who can complete the course the fastest. For the game's initial release, Mattel obtained a license from the [[U. S. Ski Team]] and used its name and logo in the game's box art. In 1988, INTV Corporation released an enhanced version of the game entitled '''''Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing'''''.

During its initial release, ''U. S. Ski Team Skiing'' was sold by [[Sears]] for its private-label version of the Intellivision console, the "Super Video Arcade," without the U. S. Ski Team name or logo. Subsequent re-releases, such as on the ''Intellivision Lives'' collection, have also left the game name simply as ''Skiing''.

==Gameplay==
The object of ''Skiing'' is to complete the chosen course, either downhill or slalom, in the fastest time possible. Play begins by selecting the number of players for the game. Each player will have three heats in which to post their fastest time for the course. With multiple players, players take turns in the same order for each heat. Next, the players choose from one of 15 levels of steepness for the course, with higher numbers representing steeper (and thus, faster) courses. Lastly, the players select either the downhill or the slalom course for their race.<ref name="SKInst">((cite web|url=http://www.intellivisiongames.com/bluesky/games/instructions/sports/skiing.txt|title=Skiing instructions|publisher=IntellivisionLives.com|access-date=2010-08-06))</ref>

Players control their skiers by using the controller to turn them until they reach the desired direction. The skiers will accelerate down the hill automatically, based on the steepness of the course. Players may take turns gradually, or by pushing an action button they may take a turn more sharply. Pushing another action button will cause the skier to jump over obstacles on the course, such as [[mogul skiing|mogul]]s.<ref name="SKInst"/>

On both courses, players must successfully pass through a number of gates on their way down the course, with gates on the downhill course spaced farther apart than those on the slalom course. Missing a gate adds a five-second penalty to a player's race time. As each player begins their race, the current fastest time is displayed at the starting line, with their final time displayed after the player crosses the finish line.<ref name="SKInst"/>

==Reception==
''Skiing'' was reviewed by ''[[Video (magazine)|Video]]'' magazine in its "Arcade Alley" column where it received little praise but only minor criticism as well. It was described as "nothing breathtakingly new", and as offering "an acceptable range of [gameplay] variations, although there is only one basic trail for each event". The reviewers found that multiplayer tournament mode is "equally entertaining" as the solo-play mode, but they concluded that the game "packs an amazing amount of detail into an easy-to-learn contest".<ref name=kunkel81>((cite journal |last1= Kunkel |first1= Bill |author-link1= Bill Kunkel (gaming)|last2= Laney Jr. |first2= Frank |author-link2= Arnie Katz|date= November 1981 |title= Arcade Alley: A Sports Trio from Mattel |journal= [[Video (magazine)|Video]]|publisher= Reese Communications|volume= 5|issue= 8|pages= 28 and 86|issn= 0147-8907))</ref>((rp|86)) In 1997, ''[[GameSpot]]'' alluded to ''Skiing'' as the best skiing video game of the past 17 years.<ref>((cite web|title=Cool Boarders Review |url=https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/cool-boarders-review/1900-2547099/|website=[[GameSpot]]|access-date=9 February 2018|date=January 31, 1997))</ref>

==Legacy==
((Infobox video game
| title = Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing 
| image = MountainMadnessSuperProSkiing.jpg
| caption=
| developer = [[Realtime Associates]]
| publisher = INTV Corporation
| designer = Ray Kaestner<ref name="MM-INTVlives">((cite web|url=http://www.intellivisiongames.com/gamepage.php?gameId=59|title=Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing|publisher=IntellivisionLives.com|access-date=2010-08-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015080344/http://intellivisiongames.com/gamepage.php?gameId=59|archive-date=2007-10-15))</ref>
| released = ((vgrelease|NA|1988))
))
After Mattel Electronics shut down in 1984, INTV Corporation obtained the assets to the Intellivision system and continued producing games for the console. In 1988, INTV released an enhanced version of the original ''Skiing'' game called ''Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing''.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.gamefaqs.com/intellivision/577061-mountain-madness-super-pro-skiing|title=Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing|publisher=[[GameFAQs]]|access-date=2010-08-06))</ref> It increased the number of available courses from one downhill and one slalom to 32 courses, each playable as a downhill course, a slalom course or with no gates at all. Options were also added to allow the computer to randomly generate a course (to simulate [[heliskiing|helicopter skiing]]) or for players to design courses of their own, although no provisions were included for players to save their designs.<ref name="MMInst">((cite web|url=http://www.intellivisiongames.com/bluesky/games/instructions/intv/skiing2.txt|title=Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing instructions|publisher=IntellivisionLives.com|access-date=2010-08-06))</ref>

While the basic gameplay remains the same between the two titles, including support for up to six players and three heats of racing, ''Mountain Madness'' made additional changes. Players are able to preview the desired course prior to selecting it. Each player can choose their own steepness level, instead of a single setting being used for all players. More surface features were added to the original's trees and moguls, such as ice, [[Types of snow#On the ground|powder]] and bare patches of ground. Also, the penalty for missing a gate was decreased from five seconds to two seconds.<ref name="MMInst"/>

''Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing'' appears alongside the original ''Skiing'' on the ''Intellivision Lives'' collection, and the ''Mountain Madness'' version was one of the launch titles for [[Microsoft|Microsoft's]] ''[[Game Room]]'' service on its [[Xbox 360]] console and on [[Games for Windows Live]].

An updated version of ''Skiing'' of the same name has been announced for release on the [[Intellivision Amico]] video game console. It is one of the six games that will be included with the console.<ref name="6free">((cite web |title=Intellivision Amico Pack-in announcement |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh6NSLwmamQ  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Nh6NSLwmamQ |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|publisher=Intellivision Entertainment |access-date=29 March 2020))((cbignore))</ref>

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100211000239/http://www.intellivisiongames.com/gamepage.php?gameId=115 ''Skiing''] at Intellivision Lives
* [http://www.gamefaqs.com/intellivision/581779-us-ski-team-skiing ''Skiing''] at GameFAQs
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071015080344/http://intellivisiongames.com/gamepage.php?gameId=59 ''Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing''] at Intellivision Lives
* [http://www.gamefaqs.com/intellivision/577061-mountain-madness-super-pro-skiing ''Mountain Madness: Super Pro Skiing''] at GameFAQs

[[Category:1980 video games]]
[[Category:Intellivision games]]
[[Category:Intellivision-only games]]
[[Category:Mattel video games]]
[[Category:North America-exclusive video games]]
[[Category:Skiing video games]]
[[Category:INTV Corporation games]]
[[Category:Realtime Associates games]]
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