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== wow ==

''Throughout the game there are trees that seem to grow feet. If you look close, you may see some of these trees! ~ Environmentalist concerns were brought to the forefront when players realized they could set fire to the trees by jumping over them. It is unknown whether this was intended to cause an uproar or not. ~ One lesser known aspect of the game deals with the numerous tree stumps found around the slopes of SkiFree. Users have found that when skied over backwards they transform into a small spotty mushroom. It has been theorised that this points to a philosophical leaning in the nature of SkiFree's creator Chris Pirih. The mushrooms may illustrate an extrapolation of Plato's theory of ideas in which the physical form of something may not reveal its true identity and only its representation in our particular plane of existence.''

a little far flung dont you think....

--[[User:Froth|Froth]] 07:00, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Someone should mention the dog taking a piss in the snow. Or the purplish person who cries when you run over them. Yeah, this game is great.  [[User:JarlaxleArtemis|<span style="color:black;">&rArr;</span> <span style="font-family:Euclid Fraktur;"> <span style="color:darkgreen;">Jarlaxle</span><span style="color:goldenrod;">Artemis</span></span>]] 01:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I second the far-flung observation.

--[[User:JHarris|JohnH]] 21:09, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

==Scores==
Can We discuss those here?

I got 22000 on freestyle.
--[[User:Mustafarox|Mustafarox]] 21:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
:Unfortunatly Wikipedia talk pages are only about the page itself, not the subject of the page. In short: no. --[[User:Ysangkok|Ysangkok]] 13:46, 11 June 2007 (UTC)


Also if you do a jump over the dead trees they ignite on fire!!  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/67.234.13.200|67.234.13.200]] ([[User talk:67.234.13.200|talk]]) 20:45, 29 June 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

==Fair use rationale for Image:Skifree yeti.png==
[[Image:Nuvola apps important.svg|70px|left]]
'''[[:Image:Skifree yeti.png]]''' is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]] but there is no [[Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline|explanation or rationale]] as to why its use in '''this''' Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Fair use|boilerplate fair use template]], you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with [[WP:FU|fair use]].

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:I added rationale. --[[User:Ysangkok|Ysangkok]] 13:45, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

==Fair use rationale for Image:Skifree screenshot.png==
[[Image:Nuvola apps important.svg|70px|left]]
'''[[:Image:Skifree screenshot.png]]''' is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]] but there is no [[Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline|explanation or rationale]] as to why its use in '''this''' Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Fair use|boilerplate fair use template]], you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with [[WP:FU|fair use]].

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:I added rationale. --[[User:Ysangkok|Ysangkok]] 13:46, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

== robot vs yeti ==

Is the monster at the end a yeti, a robot, or a robot yeti? I dunno about any yeti having stick limbs like that.  <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/58.173.163.26|58.173.163.26]] ([[User talk:58.173.163.26|talk]]) 16:45, 12 October 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
: No one knows ANY Yeti --'''<span id="Dexter_prog" class="plainlinks" >[[User:Dexter_prog|Dexter_prog]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Dexter_prog|talk]] <small>•</small> [[Special:Contributions/Dexter_prog|contribs]] <small>•</small> [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/ec/{{urlencode:Dexter_prog}} <span style="color:#002bb8">count</span>]</span>)''' @ 12:43, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

== Freeski redirect ==
I'm sorry, but why is "Freeski" redirected here? From what I have read, one is a freestyle skiing event, the other is a computer game. Can someone maybe "un"redirect this? There is plenty of information on Freeski, there should also be a wikipedia entry.  <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/78.142.169.100|78.142.169.100]] ([[User talk:78.142.169.100|talk]]) 09:11, 7 August 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Easter Eggs ==
:[[Special:Contributions/69.143.108.233| User: 69.143.108.233]] '''Deleted''' the Easter Eggs section. [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=SkiFree&diff=287924302&oldid=285518232 Click here for History]. They say that the information is "pure trivia," and that the images "fail to meet." This can be fixed easily by cropping all of the empty white space out of the images. The section could be reworded to not sound too trivial. '''Comments on whether to keep the section or not?'''.--[[User:CornfieldMannequin|CornfieldMannequin]] ([[User talk:CornfieldMannequin|talk]]) 22:08, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

::I've again removed it (I excised it previously when not logged in). Per [[WP:VGSCOPE]], Easter Eggs are unencyclopedic and superfluous trivia, esp. when simply presented in context-less bulleted form. Furthermore, these Easter Eggs lack citations to reliable sources that actually verify they are, in fact, Easter Eggs, and not deliberate game features or content not intended to be published; i.e., IDing them as Easter Eggs is [[WP:OR]]. I removed the images for failing to meet the [[WP:NFCC]] criteria for using non-free images, esp. because they lack a fair-use rationale. --[[User:EEMIV|EEMIV]] ([[User talk:EEMIV|talk]]) 01:57, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

== XKCD ==

Do we ''really'' need the link to the XKCD comic? [[WP:XKCD]] [[User:Synook|Synook]] ([[User talk:Synook|talk]]) 11:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

: Definitely not. Actually, I just came here from that comic, and am pretty sure mos of the traffic goes this way, so it's redundant in addition to unencyclopedic. [[Special:Contributions/213.220.216.89|213.220.216.89]] ([[User talk:213.220.216.89|talk]]) 13:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

: It's a cultural reference.  If other people mentioned SkiFree, then it would be appropriate and business as usual for Wikipedia.--[[User:D3matt|D3matt]] ([[User talk:D3matt|talk]]) 14:23, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

:: No. No, it wouldn't ("be appropriate", that is. Obviously it ''would'' be "business as usual", which is regrettable). [[user:thumperward|Chris Cunningham (not at work)]] - [[user talk:thumperward|talk]] 16:07, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

::: Shouldn't there be a distinction from an internet culture reference, and an actual culture reference? e.g. a controversial event during a song's play is a culture reference in relation to the song. This is just a comic that the lot of you will forget about once 3 weeks pass by. Hopefully it'll be edited out later. 

== Macintosh Version ? ==

I can't seem to find a reference to the Macintosh-Version, although it is mentioned in the box, as well as in the text of the german version.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/194.245.91.129|194.245.91.129]] ([[User talk:194.245.91.129|talk]]) 13:21, 26 November 2009 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Gameplay ==

The gameplay section currently reads:
At the beginning of the game, the user has four choices:

    * Enter the Free-style course (with the objective of collecting "style points" by doing flips, going over moguls, etc).
    * Enter the Slalom course (with the objective of completing an opened slalom course in the shortest time possible).
    * Enter the Tree Slalom course (similar to the Slalom course, but longer, with narrower-spaced flags, and with trees interspersed).
    * Enter none of the courses, and just "ski free".


Shouldn't the last point be merged with the first point?

(sorry about my crappy formatting, i'm rather new to the wiki formatting)[[User:Atebo88|Atebo88]] ([[User talk:Atebo88|talk]]) 05:47, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

I removed part of the "Completion" section which described two rows of 5 yetis attacking with no chance of escape. I haven't experienced that and have found no reference to it online. [[User:trevori|trevori]] ([[User talk:trevori|talk]])  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/129.74.145.48|129.74.145.48]] ([[User talk:129.74.145.48|talk]]) 01:29, 1 February 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Can we insert this back in? ==
Trees

Throughout the game there are trees that seem to grow feet. If you look close, you may see some of these trees.
Burning Trees

Environmentalist concerns were brought to the forefront when players realized they could set fire to the trees by jumping over them. It is unknown whether this was intended to cause an uproar or not.
Mushrooms

One lesser known aspect of the game deals with the numerous tree stumps found around the slopes of SkiFree. Users have found that when skied over backwards they transform into a small spotty mushroom. It has been theorised that this points to a philosophical leaning in the nature of SkiFree's creator Chris Pirih. The mushrooms may illustrate an extrapolation of Plato's theory of ideas in which the physical form of something may not reveal its true identity and only its representation in our particular plane of existence.

I think we might want to edit the last one, but otherwise should this go back int the page?
[[User:Starbox|S*T*A*R*B*O*X]] ([[User talk:Starbox|talk]]) 02:35, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

== Counting down from −2000 m? ==

So does it go further in the negative direction or back towards zero? (I know what is meant, but this usage, while understandable, is somewhat odd.) [[User:Double sharp|Double sharp]] ([[User talk:Double sharp|talk]]) 15:50, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
:Changed (two years later) to "back towards zero". [[User:Double sharp|Double sharp]] ([[User talk:Double sharp|talk]]) 16:46, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

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== Hidden link... ==

Excuse me... i disassembled SkiFree just for fun till I read the .data.txt file and found this:
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The link.

V:\hack\ski32\ski2.c.

What does this mean, is he about to release the source code someday? -- [[User:Nitheesh_Yevan]] ([[User talk:Nitheesh_Yevan|talk]]) 04:29, 03 May 2021 (UTC)

:No.  That's an error message meant to only be seen by the programmer; it would probably go along with a line number (note "line %u" -- %u is telling the program where to put the line number.) 
:Also, I've signed your name to your comment, per wikipedia policy.  -- [[User:PsyMar|PsyMar]] ([[User talk:PsyMar|talk]]) 14:31, 13 June 2022 (UTC)