#skifree

[everygameover]

SkiFree 1991 - Windows 3.1

[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

[secondbeatsongs]

Trick or treat! Rhymes with pick a beat!

you bet it does!

[atomic-freezer]

running down the minecraft mountainside only for the yeti to appear behind me, killing me instantly

[foone]

What are your thoughts on competitive skiing?

I’m too asexual and poor for that.

I’m totally into it in the virtual world, though, but only if there’s a yeti

[axolotine]

skifree sucks man you can't even fuck the yeti

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, Cthulu manually made an #ANSIart reproduction of #pixelart sprites from Chris Pirih's #SkiFree, first included in 1991's Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3.

[stromcuzewon]

skiers beware, you're in for a being eaten by a yeti

[museum-of-screens]

Parachute Skiing (2011) 

Creator(s): Leon Arnott

Type: HTML5

Language: [EN] 

Status: Available

[amashelle]

TIL that you were never meant to escape the yeti and I am now undergoing intense reprogramming as I rewrite my failure to ‘win’ skifree as incredible success at having once evaded the yeti by coincidentally being airborne when he showed up.

He chased me down the hill until he dropped off screen. Later, I got eaten by a completely different yeti.

Apologies if you've answered this before, but is Skifree an early liminal horror game?

More of a parallel evolution.

A lot of early video games didn't have defined end points, instead simply continuing either until something structural broke because the developers didn't expect anyone to get that far, or until the game's difficulty curve mechanics went off the rails in a way that rendered further progress impossible – for example, a game where the baddies get faster with every level eventually reaching a point where they simply teleport directly to the player's location as soon as the level starts. These failure points are colloquially known as "kill screens".

Many contemporary liminal horror games are playing with similar ideas, often directly inspired by the creators' childhood experiences with video game kill screens. The notion of there being some inherent boundary built into reality beyond which the rules that are necessary for human life to exist break down pre-dates video games by a fair span, of course, but "what if real life had a kill screen?" is a very handy metaphor, and many liminal horror games make good use of it.

SkiFree, meanwhile, is parodying the phenomenon of video game kill screens by having a literal kill screen – i.e., a specific point in the game's progression where a big hairy monster just randomly shows up in an otherwise monster-free game and eats you.

[waitingforthet]

Yeti or Not: the “I want to believe” version

[iwantakokokringle]

For a second I thought this was from Icicle Creek

[vissenya]

For the holidays, I like to make my shop as festive (gaudy) as possible!

[hunt3r-dot-me]

update: I made my decision -- a Toshiba Tecra 720CDT from the mid-to-late-90s.

Here's all the stickers:

And I guess I may as well show off the inside of the thing while I'm at it, if you're willing to go below the cut..... 😉

...oh, you sly devil, you. 😏

In case you're that curious (I don't blame ya lol), 133 MHz OG Pentium, 16 MB EDO RAM, 4 MB Chips & Technologies CT65550 graphics, Crystal CS4232 sound, 12.1" TFT at up to 1024×768 with 16-bit color depth, and currently using an mSATA SSD put through an IDE adapter. Also, no Ethernet. I have to use a seperate PCMCIA card for that.

And yes, the mouse buttons feel as grody as they look. Seller I got it from actually included a PS/2 ball mouse with it.

my horse sticker as made by @punkitt-is-here arrived

now I just need to figure out what to put it on

[foone]

There's a surprising number of videos on YouTube that are just someone reading the wiki for a game, titled something like "the secret dark lore of skifree" and they have 5 million subscribers

[chipthekeeper]

don't know if it's the kind of game you'd enjoy but... alto's adventure!

holy shit this is interesting and makes me miss SkiFree