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Hungry Horace

Genres: Arcade

Released on: Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32/64

Developer: Psion

Themes: Action

Game Modes: Single player

Perspective: Bird view / Isometric

Platform Release Dates:
Platform Release Date
ZX Spectrum February 01, 1982
Commodore C64/128/MAX December 31, 1983
Dragon 32/64 December 31, 1983

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About:

“Hungry Horace” offered gameplay based of the popular arcade game “Pac-Man”, it was celebrated as the first arcade game for the Spectrum. It was one of the few Spectrum games that were also available in ROM format. It formed part of the “Horace” series, which included “Horace Goes Skiing” and “Horace and the Spiders” and the unpublished “Horace to the Rescue”. Horace is apurple blob with arms and legs, who wanders around a maze, eating everything and avoiding the park guards, who are out to capture him. He is able to momentarily scare the guards, making them vulnerable, by ringing a bell in the maze. Once Horace is able to escape capture and leave the maze, he moves to the next, more challenging level. “Hungry Horace” was programmed by William Tang, but Alfred Milgrom was responsible for the design of the inimitable Horace an artful creation of character using minimum grid available . Through Melbourne House’s relationship with Sinclair, the “Horace” games would come boxed with the ZX Spectrum, making them often the first games that many people played on their home computers.

Story:

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