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Alpine Skiing

Dress warm. Press 1 on the alpha-numeric keyboard. Three different skiing competitions will be displayed alternately at the bottom of the screen. To select an event, pull the joy stick of either hand control…

1 February 1979

Alpine Skiing is an arcade, released 1 February 1979 on Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000.

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What Alpine Skiing is

Alpine Skiing was released in 1979. It was published by Magnavox. It is available on Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

One or two players can choose among three kinds of skiing competitions to play: Slalom, Giant Slalom and Down Hill. In the Slalom event, players must ski through 55 gates. The winner is the fastest player to conclude two runs down the courses. If a player misses a gate, the timing stops and the counter registers the numbers of violations. The winner then is the player with the lesser number of violations. The Giant Slalom event follows the same rules to the slalom, but is longer than the slalom, with gates farther apart. In the Down Hill event, the winner is the player to achieve the end of the marked course in the shortest amount of time. If the player goes off-course, the violations are…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

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When did Alpine Skiing come out?
Alpine Skiing was released on 1 February 1979 for Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000.

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