Windows3.1 – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:37:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png Windows3.1 – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 The “Officialist” SkiFree Homepage https://setsideb.com/the-authors-skifree-homepage/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=11019 Continue reading "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 obstacles, and trying to get a good time. After finishing the course and registering a time you could keep skiing, just for the fun of it, although eventually a yeti will chase your skier down and swallow them whole. Closing times on this slope are strictly enforced.

Its creator Chris Pirih maintains a homepage for SkiFree, along with history (it’s a port of a VAX terminal game he had written in Fortran), downloads (including one of an updated, 32-bit vesion), and other info. It’s the kind of page I’m surprised to see is still up, and hope remains up for decades to come.

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