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The “Officialist” SkiFree Homepage
SkiFree was part of one of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack releases for Windows 3.1, part of their limited gaming output before the went in on Xbox. Who knows, at the rate they're going, maybe they won't be doing Xbox much longer.

It's a simple game where you guide a skier down through a scrolling course, avoiding o
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As you may recall, I drew a couple of screens for an #ANSIart vintage computing #AdventCalendar this month, cooked up by my colleagues in the @mistfunk computer arts collective. Previously I shared my design for Dec 3, but I also adapted a rather pixelart-y, admittedly not especially ANSI-y design for today, Dec 14, from Chris Pirih's #SkiFree, made famous in 1991's #MicrosoftEntertainmentPack 3 for #Windows. Though I've fallen asleep within eyeshot of ski hills basically every night of my life

Ski-Free But You Play As The Yeti
Ski-Free is a beloved part of casual gaming from the days before it was called that, before even internet use was widespread. Distributed as part of Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3, it predates even Windows 95, and even Windows 3.1! It goes all the way back to Windows 3.0. Checking up on the game in
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