Horace Goes Skiing for ZX Spectrum

Australia, 1982

Videogame

Horace Goes Skiing [computer game]. Horace Goes Skiing is a single player game with multiple genres. The first is similar to Frogger, where players begin with $40 and guide Horace across a busy road to the ski lodge. Getting hit by a vehicle costs Horace $10 in ambulance fees. Once Horace makes it to the lodge and hires skiis, it becomes a ski game where players slalom between flags and avoid trees. Colliding with a tree will send Horace back to the start of the game. When Horace runs out of money, the game ends.

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Credits

developer

Beam Software

publisher

Melbourne House

Psion Software

writer

William Tang

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1982

Appears in

Group of items

Play It Again I: Games Collection

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

ARC000016-1

Subject category

Game

Object Types

Computer game cassette/Computer game/Game

Materials

Cassette tape computer game. Cassette and cover in a plastic cassette case.

Collected

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