Ski Run

Information

Genre

Sports - Skiing

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick

Players

1

Programmer(s)

Dunning, Paul

Graphic Artist(s)

[n/a]

Sound

[n/a]

Cover Artist(s)

[n/a]

Year

1983

Publisher

Virgin Books

Developer

Virgin Books

Country

United Kingdom

License

Book

Serial

ISBN 0-907080-90-1

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 6.3/10 · Votes: 3 · Downloads: 779 · Hits: 4,673

Additional Comments

Screenshots (2)

Comments (4)

• Scott Stilphen` — 16 Dec 2020

  Not only does the game speed up every round you complete, the speed doesn't reset when you restart a game! There's also a good chance when the game starts, you'll either be on top of a tree or one will be right in front of you.

• Wes — 10 Aug 2015

  Alan, it would only run if you didn't have a disk drive attached. See here:- http://www.atarimania.com/atari_forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17763

• Alan — 11 Sept 2013

  I remember typing this in and being very disapointed as it would not run. Hours wasted!!

• eppy2000 — 6 Mar 2008

  I remember buying the book "Games for Your Atari," which this game comes from. The author said he was a professional programmer, so I was expecting high quality programs to type in. Suffice to say, that was never really the case. The printouts were very hard-to-read dot matrix quality, making it difficult to type in and proofread. There was also illegible areas, making it guesswork the rest of the time. I must have spent hours/days typing this program in to no avail. It would never run! It was one of those programs where you had to enter a ton of numbers via DATA statements to create an executable. If I recall correctly, the author promised you would get a commercial quality game or something you'd find in the arcades. That's a bit of an overstatement! When I finally a got a working copy of the game, it was fairly simplistic, not unlike a half decent 2600 game. The game itself is you controlling a little skier and touching flags for points. It's also unforgiving. If you hit ONE tree, the game ends.