Look out for the monster!

September 30, 2005 7:56 AM

The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Pageis the page of the original SkiFree game that shipped with Windows 3.1, by Chris Pirih. There's even a 32 bit Windows XP version! (zip, exe, 37k!) Also, make sure to check out the SkiFree fan fiction. Have fun, and watch out for the monster at the end!
posted by anomie (19 comments total)

There's fan fiction for this game? I don't know what to say ... except, maybe, why? Sure, the game was amusing (and damn that monster for always eating me), but fan fiction? Wow.
posted by Godbert at 8:00 AM on September 30, 2005

Thanks anomie!
posted by sciurus at 8:16 AM on September 30, 2005

Metafilter: why the stupid fucking monster comes out from nowhere and eats my main guy.
posted by joecacti at 8:22 AM on September 30, 2005

SkiFree did NOT ship with Windows 3.1. As the Wikipedia entry says "[t]he game was featured in the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack". I believe it was, before then, part of Entertainment Pack 1 or 2.

But, it was a great game. I got some pretty good times on the short course...
posted by skynxnex at 8:34 AM on September 30, 2005

my favorite was, and obviously still is, if you jump over a dead tree, it will light on fire. Awesome. Just awesome. I broke a minute on my first time in the slalom in about 9 years.
posted by sdrawkcab at 8:36 AM on September 30, 2005

Excellent post, friend. It's nice to finally play it again.
posted by whoshotwho at 8:37 AM on September 30, 2005

Holy crap. I had totally forgotten about this game, and the hours my siblings and I spent playing it. I can't wait to tell my brothers.
posted by bibbit at 9:02 AM on September 30, 2005

oh, maan. Hours and hours and hours of my life spent playing this. One of the proudest moments of my early adolescence was evading the monster long enough for it to get offscreen, and a second one to come after me.
posted by kalimac at 9:07 AM on September 30, 2005

I'm still crap at it
posted by 13twelve at 9:30 AM on September 30, 2005

The post was worth it just for the voice of the Abominable Snow Monster alone.
posted by Plinko at 10:09 AM on September 30, 2005

Metafilter: This is where baby snow monsters come from
posted by mullacc at 11:15 AM on September 30, 2005

I broke a minute

I just made 27.14. Yes, it's lame that I'm so proud of this. Yes, I spent wayyyy too much time playing this the first time around.
posted by MrMoonPie at 11:22 AM on September 30, 2005

I just realized that sdrawkcab was likely talking about the tree slalom. Sorry for thinking you slow.
posted by MrMoonPie at 11:27 AM on September 30, 2005

This is a brilliant blast from the past. SkiFree was one of the first games my dad installed on our family 486 and I used to play it for hours - along with trying to complete the largest grid on Minesweeper (there was always a point at which you had to guess, and I always ended up guessing wrong). Happy days...
posted by greycap at 11:59 AM on September 30, 2005

The Wiki article says that you can eventually outrun the monster and reach the bottom. As I type, my roommate is passing 35,000 meters. Has anyone actually hit bottom?
posted by Derive the Hamiltonian of... at 1:24 PM on September 30, 2005

Derive: You just start over at the beginning. And yes I have. That's really sad, but yes I have.
posted by anomie at 2:11 PM on September 30, 2005

This is pretty cool, even though I have way more expertise with Win3.0 than I like to think about I never saw this the first time around.
posted by Mitheral at 5:44 PM on September 30, 2005

Is there still no Mac port for this?

I've been deprived all these years...
posted by anarcation at 6:31 PM on September 30, 2005

SkiFree did not come with Windows 3.x, but Verbatim for a long time included an OEM version of the Entertainment Pack that fit on a single high-density diskette, which they included as the 11th disk in a 10-pack. A lot of people got these games for free. The Best of WEP did ship with Windows 95, though.
posted by dhartung at 11:00 PM on September 30, 2005