Chris Pirih, 1991, written for the Microsoft Entertainment Pack and then bundled with enough machines that a generation met it by accident.
Three courses. Slalom and Tree Slalom are timed; Free Style scores tricks. The fourth option is to point yourself downhill and keep going, which is what almost everybody actually did.
Do that far enough and the yeti arrives. It is faster than you, it does not tire, and it is not a bug — Pirih put it there on purpose. Nobody who played this as a child has forgotten it.
The Institute’s copy is rebuilt, because a 16-bit Windows binary has not opened on a normal machine in decades. The artwork is the original’s, extracted from the 1991 executable rather than redrawn — including the fonts, which are the Windows 3.1 system faces.
