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Hungry Horace

“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…

1 February 1982

Hungry Horace is an arcade developed by Psion, released 1 February 1982 on Commodore C64/128/MAX, Dragon 32/64 and ZX Spectrum.

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What Hungry Horace is

Hungry Horace is an arcade game developed by Psion and released in 1982. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX, Dragon 32/64 and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

“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 It formed part of the “Horace” series, which included “Horace Goes Skiing” and “Horace and the Spiders” and the unpublished “Horace to the Rescue”.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…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Hungry Horace launched on 1 February 1982, within three weeks of Ms. Pac-Man and Dig Dug.

Released around the same time: Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug.

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When did Hungry Horace come out?
Hungry Horace was released on 1 February 1982 for Commodore C64/128/MAX, Dragon 32/64 and ZX Spectrum.

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