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Become SkiFree’s yeti and devour skiers in this free little gameBecome your childhood nemesis in Yeti Upsetti
Become your childhood nemesis in Yeti Upsetti
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Robert Shenton
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Robert Shenton
For#GMTKJamI made SkiFree, but you’re the yetipic.twitter.com/lUOOjgPNhT— Robert Shenton (@miltage)July 9, 2023
For#GMTKJamI made SkiFree, but you’re the yetipic.twitter.com/lUOOjgPNhT
You can play Yeti Upsetti for free in your browserover on Itch.io.
Robert Shenton made Yeti Upsetti for theGMTK Game Jam 2023, a 48-hour competition to make a game around the theme “roles reversed”. Lots of otherentrieslook interesting so I’ll be having a good rummage.
SkiFree launched in 1991 as part of a game compilation for Windows 3.0, the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3. It’s a cheery little arcade game, where you go bouncing over moguls, dodging trees, catching big air off rainbow ramps, and falling on your bum. And, eventually, you reach the abominable snowman. This terrible pixel art creature will chase you downhill until you inevitably make a mistake. You’re done. You’re dinner.
Yeti Upsetti tells me that the big guy is so hungry that he must consume several extreme sports enthusiasts every minute or he’ll die, but couldn’t he at least try hitting the ski lodge for cocoa and fondue?
SkiFree creator Chris Pirih has released a (more) modern 32-bit versionfree to download from his website, though my computer struggled to run that at a good framerate, even more than the family 386 did. You’d be better off playingthe emulated version on the Internet Archive, and that’s handily playable in your browser too.
