Ski Run

Ski Run is an obscure winter sports cartridge for the Atari 2600 from the early 1980s. The version on this page is the PAL cartridge that Suntek sold in Europe, model SS-024, which emulator databases date to 1983. Who programmed it is not known, and very little has been written about it. You can play it here in your browser.

Play Atari 2600 Ski Run online

  • ← ↑ ↓ → Joystick
  • Space Fire
  • F12 Reset
  • F11 Select
  • F4 / F9 Difficulty

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How to play Ski Run online

  • Move your skier: arrow keys
  • Fire button: Space bar
  • Start a new game: F12 (the console’s Reset switch)
  • Save and load your progress: Ctrl + 0–9 saves to a slot, Alt + 0–9 loads it

No instruction manual for Ski Run has been preserved online, so the exact rules and any game variations are not documented.

One game, several labels

Like many cartridges of the time, Ski Run appeared under more than one label. Suntek released a numbered series of PAL games in Europe, most of them existing titles with new names. An NTSC version of Ski Run is also known from the Taiwanese company Jone Yuan Telephonic Enterprise, and AtariAge lists a European cartridge called Ski-Run from Ariola. An NTSC conversion of the game by Peter Rittwage, dated 2005, also exists.

Ski Run is a different program from Activision’s Skiing. If you want a well-documented skiing game on the 2600, start there.

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