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The Activision Skiing game for Atari is eerily like this one.

Graphics: 3 Sound: 3 Replay Value: 4 Notes: 1- to 6-player game; Easter Egg Screen Shots

Whack! Thump! Stupid tree! We had a blast seeing how fast we could go and smash into trees, or cackling at the ineptitude of our opponent when hitting these slopes. U.S. Ski Team Skiing offered lots of fun and was one of the earliest Intellivision games to offer multi-colored characters. The skis were actually a different color than the main character! It was also a vertically scrolling game, which seemed pretty unique in the home video game market at the time. Best Time: Downhill: 40.6 [Slope: 14]; Slalom: N/A

A total of twelve U.S. Ski Team Skiing box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0910	1980	U.S.A.	Plastic tray; part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom; refers to Keyboard Component on cover; brighter white internal cardboard
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0910	1980	Hong Kong	Plastic tray; part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom; refers to Keyboard Component on cover
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0910-G1	1980	U.S.A.	Trayless pocket; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0910-G1	1980	Hong Kong	Plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	1817-0910-G1	1980	U.S.A.	Plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
	Mattel Electronics	5149-0810	1981	Hong Kong	Gatefold with tray; no U.S. Ski Team logo; no part number on top; on bottom flap: Distributed by Advanced Consumer Eletronics Ltd., Unit 3, Fulton Road, Wembley, Middx., England; Manufactured for Mattel by Radofin Electronics (Far East) Ltd.
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0510	1980	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada on back
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0910	1980	Hong Kong	French-Canadian outer sleeve refers to original Keyboard Component; internally, same as standard 1817-0910
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0410	1980	Hong Kong	International Edition; no U.S. Ski Team logo; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	1817-0410	1980	Hong Kong	International Edition; no U.S. Ski Team logo; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom; NO SLOTS in back; slots inside for overlays; reported by Intellivotion
	Intellivision Inc.	1817	1980	U.S.A.	Standard Intellivision, Inc. box; however, part number not listed in lower left corner on front, as it usually was
	Sears	3869-0910	1980	Hong Kong	Plastic tray; blue game title on top and back

A total of eighteen U.S. Ski Team Skiing manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0920	1980	U.S.A.	Includes errata slip w/o origin
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0920	1980	Hong Kong	Includes 'TELLIVISION' errata slip
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0920-G2	1980	U.S.A.
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0920-G2	1980	Hong Kong	Includes 'TELLIVISION' errata slip
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0820 G-2	1980	Hong Kong	Has error with CLEAR and ENTER reversed on overlay image in the manual; older International English edition?
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0720	1980	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; blue artwork
	Mattel Electronics	1817-8920	1980	Canada	French translation; included in 'sleeved' version with a 1817-0920 English manual
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0820 G-3	1980	Hong Kong	International English edition
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0121	1980	Hong Kong	German; localized title SKIFAHREN; blue artwork; part number lower right
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	1817-0111	1980	Hong Kong	French; title localized to SKI with U.S. Ski Team logo removed; blue monochrome
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0141	1980	Hong Kong	Spanish 'ESQUI'; blue monochrome artwork
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	1817-0???	1980	Hong Kong	Italian 'SCI'
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0151	None		Swedish translation from LEAB; black and white; no copyright date or origin provided; translated as SKIDÅKNING
	Mattel Electronics	PC-1817-0920	1980	U.S.A.	PlayCable version; U.S. Ski Team logo removed; the instructions correctly show the overlays, so the errata slip is not needed
	Bandai	1817-0201	None		Japanese release by Bandai; noted by voltron and others; need verification of origin. Copyright date is not present. Special thanks to krslam for the exhaustive scans of the manual!
	Bandai	1817-	None		Japanese release by Bandai; copyright date is not present; note partial part number
	Intellivision Inc.	1817-0820-G1	None		Accordion-style folding; no origin; unlike other I.I. manuals, does not have a 'back cover' with the Intellivision® logo on it
	Sears	3869-0920	1980	Hong Kong	Includes the 'TELLIVISION' errata slip

Supplemental Materials

The following supplemental materials have been found for U.S. Ski Team Skiing.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None		At least 'Television' is spelled correctly, but some extra exclamation points couldn't hurt...to hell with punctuation!
	Mattel Electronics	1817-0950	None	Hong Kong	'TELLIVISION' errata slip

A total of four U.S. Ski Team Skiing overlay variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	1817-4289	1980	U.S.A.	No outline around title; DIRECTION text and arrows not present
	Mattel Electronics	1817-4289	1980	U.S.A.	Outline around title; DIRECTION text and arrows are present
	Mattel Electronics	1817-4289-G1	1980	U.S.A.	No outline around title; DIRECTION text and arrows are present; part number updated
	Phil Boland	49 75219	1980	U.S.A.	Part of the Sears Super Video Arcade Overlay Set (2013)

A total of four U.S. Ski Team Skiing label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None		No origin, copyright, or date info
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	Hong Kong	Origin upper right
	Intellivision Inc.	N/A	1980	U.S.A.	Origin lower right; © I.I. 1980 to left of origin; ™ small, centered vertically on right edge; smaller label, rounded corners
	Phil Boland	N/A	None		Part of the Sears Super Video Arcade Overlay Set (2013)

	Title screen for U.S. Ski Team Skiing.
	Some people knock this game, but I don't know why. But I never could get into the slalom races.

Credit: I first found this in Joe Zbiciak's post to the intvprog group on Yahoo on 23. March, 2001. JZ has indicated that the real credit should go to Carl Mueller, Jr. since he probably found it first. So you both get credit here!

Left Controller: Press and hold: [5], [7]
Right Controller: Press and hold: [5], [7]
Press Reset
Easter Egg: At the end of the race, instead of FINISH it shows PENDRAGON:

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