Windows 3.1 Shareware: WINSKI
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- Publication date
- 1991
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Perspective
Top-down
Sport
Snowboarding / Skiing
Genre
Action, Sports
Gameplay
Arcade
Description
SkiFree is the standalone version of the game originally included as a part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3 (1991) for Windows 3.x, and later made available separately for Windows 3.x. It was then re-compiled for 32-bit Windows systems when the author found back the source code and released it for free through his website.
Players control a skier on a downhill slope on a mountain. From the start, three types of courses can be selected, but these can also be ignored. In Slalom, the skier needs to pass flags on the right side and makes his way down to the finish. Tree Slalom is identical, but has a lot of trees on the course. The final one is Freestyle were points are scored by performing jumps and doing tricks in the air, followed by a safe landing.
The skier can be steered using the keyboard or the mouse. It is also possible to jump, but the biggest ones are achieved with the help of rocks, bumps and rainbow-coloured pads. After the finish, the skier can move on until he is caught by the abominable snow monster. There are various obstacles, such as trees, snowboarders, rocks and more.
From Mobygames.com. Original Entry
- Addeddate
- 2016-02-03 21:15:52
- Dosbox_drive_d
- emularity_win31/win31.zip
- Emulator
- dosbox
- Emulator_ext
- ZIP
- Emulator_start
- d:\runapp SKI.EXE
- Identifier
- win3_WINSKI
- Mobygames_also_for
- Windows
- Mobygames_gameplay
- Arcade
- Mobygames_genre
- Action, Sports
- Mobygames_perspective
- Top-down
- Mobygames_released
- 2001
- Mobygames_sport
- Snowboarding / Skiing
- Scanner
- Internet Archive Python library 0.9.1
- Year
- 1991
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Subject: where the hecc is program manager
Subject: An absolute classic
I can give a tip about the site of the original creator: http://ski.ihoc.net/ There's not too much content there but at least there's a bit of interesting back story for the game (trivia). Here's a snippet:
"I called it WinSki, but the Microsoft marketroids hated that and decided, for inscrutible marketroidal reasons, to call it SkiFree. After some token resistance I let them have their way. Since the program was not originally a Microsoft product, Microsoft licensed it from me and paid me some trivial one-time fee (something like 100 shares of MSFT stock, no royalties) for its use."
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