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 It formed part of the Horace series, which included Horace Goes Skiing and Horace and the Spiders and the unpublished Horace to the Rescue.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 a blue blob with arms and legs, who wanders around a maze, picking the flowers, collecting fruit 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. If Horace is able to escape capture and leave the maze, he moves to the next, more challenging level.
Source: Play It Again website:
http://www.ourdigitalheritage.org/archive/playitagain/games/hungry-horace-orginal-spectrum/
Last accessed: 17/05/2021
Original game developed by Beam Software and Psion Software. Published in 1982 by Melbourne House.
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ARC000018-1
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Computer game cassette/Computer game/Game
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Cassette tape computer game. Cassette and cover in a plastic cassette case