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.
Similar games to play next
- Skiing – Activision’s slalom and downhill game from 1980
- Winter Games – Epyx’s snow and ice events, including the slalom
- Motocross – another little-documented racing cartridge from the same era; Suntek also sold a Motocross game in its PAL series
- Treasure Island – another game from Suntek’s PAL series