JacobZu7zu7 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) [Intellivision HSC Season 13] (Game 16) Skiing Skiing by Mattel Electronics 1980 Take a deep breath, dig your poles hard into the snow, push off...and you're speeding down a world class skiing course. ROM Download Link https://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/21642/intellivision/U-S-Ski-Team-Skiing-1980-Mattel.html High Score Club Record Game Settings Course Downhill - Slope 15 Course Slalom - Slope 15 34.2 mr_me Downhill Course Slope 15 (Set a record) 88.4 mr_me Slalom Slope 15 (Set a record) Contest EndsSUNDAY NOVEMBER 8TH 11:59PM EST (HIGH SCORES) Downhill Course - Slope 15 1. 34.2 mr_me 2. 35.4 Rickster8 3. 37.4 wolfy62 4. 38.8 popsicle 5. 39.2 BiffMan 6. 46.4 Ace24 7. 55.6 JacobZu7zu7 8. 66.0 IntyFanMatt 9. 69.0 Player One 10. 90.4 fakecortex Slalom Course - Slope 15 1. 88.4 mr_me 2. 111.2 Rickster8 3. 150.6 wolfy62 4. 192.2 BiffMan 5. 209.4 JacobZu7zu7 6. 218.4 Ace 24 7. 222.8 IntyFanMatt 8. 254.0 Player One 9. 258.8 fakecortex Final Ranking points are awarded for each "separate course"; highest possible points earned is +18, for 1st in both (not including any set HSC records) 1st +9 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Rankings 1. IntyFanMatt [+223] 2. Rickster8 [+211] 3. BiffMan [+186] 4. INTELLIVISION SPARTAN [+145] 5. JacobZu7zu7 [+119] 6. mr_me [+106] 7. fakecortex [+80] 8. Ace24 [+79] 9. Player One [+66] 10. hoosierdadee78 [+54] 11. Intelligentleman [+53] 12. gar0u [+40] 13. roadrunner [+36] 14. popsicle [+34] 15. jblenkle [+32] 16. JasonlikesINTV [+19] 17. Mangia-boy [+18] 18. ed1475 [+11] 19. Jimmy KDawg [+7] 20. Oscar G. [+6] 21. S.BAZ [+4] 22. dpisacane [+3] 23. cmadruga [+1] Games Won 9 IntyFanMatt - Shark! Shark! / Pac-man / Worm Whomper / Pitfall / Star Strike / Beauty & The Beast / Dreadnaught Factor x2 / River Raid / Dracula 4 BiffMan - Auto Racing / Utopia / Frog Bog x2 / Dracula 3 INTELLIVISION SPARTAN - Night Stalker / Pitfall / Tron Deadly Discs 3 Rickster8 - Space Armada / Auto Racing / Frog Bog 2 mr_me - Star Strike / Bump 'N' Jump SNEAK PREVIEW: SHOOTERS HELL: ASTROSMASH/SHARP SHOT (GAME 17) Edited November 9, 2020 by JacobZu7zu7 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobZu7zu7 Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 Skiing started! 2 weeks and an extra day, which starts now Two slopes, Downhill 15 and Slalom 15. +9 for each 1st place finish like in Auto Racing earlier this season. No point skip. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 Press disc at titlescreen, otherwise you might start at a slower speed and frame rate. http://www.intellivision.us/intvlibrary/Games/Manuals/us_ski_team_skiing/gallery.php 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, mr_me said: Press disc at titlescreen, otherwise you might start at a slower speed and frame rate. http://www.intellivision.us/intvlibrary/Games/Manuals/us_ski_team_skiing/gallery.php Yes so it's Disc, then 1-15-1 for DOWNHILL. Disc, then 1-15-2 for SLALOM. ? Edited October 25, 2020 by Rickster8 Wording 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 My First Skiing Entry: LOVE THIS GAME!!!! I won't be able to improve much on my DOWNHILL score, but hopefully I can take another 20 seconds off the SLALOM score. ? 36.8 (DOWNHILL) - MY GOAL - UNDER 36.0 144.8 (SLALOM) - MY GOAL - UNDER 125.0 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffMan Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 3 hours ago, Rickster8 said: My First Skiing Entry: LOVE THIS GAME!!!! I won't be able to improve much on my DOWNHILL score, but hopefully I can take another 20 seconds off the SLALOM score. ? 36.8 (DOWNHILL) - MY GOAL - UNDER 36.0 144.8 (SLALOM) - MY GOAL - UNDER 125.0 Nice! This was another family favorite of ours, will be fun to get back into it, haven't played the original version in many, many years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 36.0 downhill Intellivision hardware 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 hour ago, mr_me said: 36.0 downhill Intellivision hardware Nice, that probably ties my best time ever. @BiffMan have you ever scored / timed under 36.0 on the DOWNHILL course? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffMan Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 21 minutes ago, Rickster8 said: Nice, that probably ties my best time ever. @BiffMan have you ever scored / timed under 36.0 on the DOWNHILL course? Don't recall what the specific times were on that specific course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Rickster8 said: Nice, that probably ties my best time ever. @BiffMan have you ever scored / timed under 36.0 on the DOWNHILL course? He's probably done under 35. How's your control in emulation. Do you feel it skipping at all? Edited October 25, 2020 by mr_me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffMan Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 22 minutes ago, mr_me said: He's probably done under 35. How's your control in emulation. Do you feel it skipping at all? Hard to say exactly what it's doing, but it's not remotely as smooth as I remembered it being on the console. I'm definitely finding myself having difficulty setting up for the gates, but that could just be the older-than-dirt, no-reflexes thing. 15 is a pretty aggressive slope. Going to take me a while to remember the course. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, BiffMan said: Hard to say exactly what it's doing, but it's not remotely as smooth as I remembered it being on the console. I'm definitely finding myself having difficulty setting up for the gates, but that could just be the older-than-dirt, no-reflexes thing. 15 is a pretty aggressive slope. Going to take me a while to remember the course. ? Yeah the controller kind of lapses a little bit.... Meaning you will press a side for the skis to turn and it will lag sometimes..... but that's been the knock on this game for years..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffMan Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, Rickster8 said: Yeah the controller kind of lapses a little bit.... Meaning you will press a side for the skis to turn and it will lag sometimes..... but that's been the knock on this game for years..... It's not that, it just feels "off" like it's not rendering every frame or something. Mostly though, I think I just need to start out slower until I have the course fully memorized again. I recall this being a game of inches and whether you setup for a gate at a 1/8th or 1/16th angle being huge, so I know we were playing it with that kind of fidelity when we were playing over and over again. For now, I'll settle for a run where I hit fewer trees. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) 45 minutes ago, mr_me said: He's probably done under 35. How's your control in emulation. Do you feel it skipping at all? Yes sometimes it seems to lag, how bout' you? I have 2 Ultimate InTV Flashbacks and 4 controllers to choose from. But it definitely has a tendency to lag trying to turn the skis..... Not all the time, just some of the time. Mostly it's pretty crisp..... Edited October 25, 2020 by Rickster8 Added a little more text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 On real hardware, I describe it as occasional skipping rather than lagging. I'm a bit surprised, was expecting better. Sometimes you can hear the swooshing interrupted, not sure if that corresponds to the controls skipping. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 My Skiing Update: Some improvement on both courses... ? 36.2 (DOWNHILL) - MY GOAL - UNDER 36.0 - UPDATED 128.2 (SLALOM) - MY GOAL - UNDER 125.0 - UPDATED 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gar0u Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 This was not my favorite game as a kid. Didn't ski in real life, and had a hard time controlling the skier in the game. I think I picked it up for cheap from Kay Bee Toys when the video game fad was collapsing. Just gave the downhill course a try on course 15. Got 122.0--about four times slower than the best time so far. Not sure I'll be competitive at this game. I don't have my second controller working yet on my Pi, so Dracula is hard, too. I think I got to the 5th night before just turning it off. Frustrating to watch those zombies just stand there for 10s for 50 points! Both are cool games though. Just haven't played them before. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 47 minutes ago, gar0u said: This was not my favorite game as a kid. Didn't ski in real life, and had a hard time controlling the skier in the game. I think I picked it up for cheap from Kay Bee Toys when the video game fad was collapsing. Just gave the downhill course a try on course 15. Got 122.0--about four times slower than the best time so far. Not sure I'll be competitive at this game. I don't have my second controller working yet on my Pi, so Dracula is hard, too. I think I got to the 5th night before just turning it off. Frustrating to watch those zombies just stand there for 10s for 50 points! Both are cool games though. Just haven't played them before. Keep playing it (Skiing), you will get better..... ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 35.0 downhill Intellivision hardware 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gar0u Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 The crazy thing is that's not one lucky run, but the average of four great runs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 1 minute ago, gar0u said: The crazy thing is that's not one lucky run, but the average of four great runs! What are you referring too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gar0u Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Mr_Me's 35.0 score. At least on mine, it makes me run Slope 15 downhill 4 times in a row and averages the total times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Just now, gar0u said: Mr_Me's 35.0 score. At least on mine, it makes me run Slope 15 downhill 4 times in a row and averages the total times. mr_me's score isn't an average. It's the best of 3 Heats... You might be playing two player? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickster8 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 My Skiing Update: Both Personal Goals ACHIEVED!!!!!... ?? 35.6 (DOWNHILL) - MY PERSONAL GOAL - UNDER 36.0 - ACHIEVED!!! 124.8 (SLALOM) - MY PERSONAL GOAL - UNDER 125.0 - ACHIEVED!!! 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 103.6 slalom Intellivision hardware Yeah, the final time is not an average so you can submit a heat time if you like. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
AtariAge on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Chat on Discord
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.