This is Hungry Horace

[Anonymous No.8230470]

Part of the Horace trilogy for the ZX Spectrum and among the earliest commercial games released for it. Guide Horace around a maze in this Pac-Man derivative and eat pellets. When they're all eaten, go to the exits. There are some sections of wall with hidden teleport points and several baddies that chase you around. Also there's a ringing bell in the corner of the maze that sounds until you touch it. When you do this the enemies momentary become angry and start chasing you at double speed. There are bonus fruits but unlike Pac-Man the game has no way to actually neutralize the enemies; you just have to avoid them.

Since this was 1982 the result is something that looks more VIC-20 than Spectrum games as they would develop later on. It does have a definite charm that many later titles lack especially when they try too hard to recreate Japanese console and arcade games. There is a C64 port of Hungry Horace but although it's a lot slicker, smoother-playing, and has music, it feels too slick and lacks the rough-hewn charm of the Spectrum version particularly the sound effects.

So for such an early game it's more charming and arguably much more fun than the many futile late '80s-early '90s attempts at porting 16-bit arcade games to the Speccy.

[Anonymous No.8230484]

>>8230470
Why is that Jew collecting the Gold Stars?

[Anonymous No.8230489]

>>8230484
Horace is a proud Anglo collecting Solomonic seals to heighten his spiritual and magical powers, thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.8230545]

not sure what Horace is supposed to be, exactly

[Anonymous No.8230582]

>>8230545
He's a fat plumber who is getting up after he sat on a patch of yellow paint.

[Anonymous No.8230757]

>>8230470
cool blog brolet

[Anonymous No.8230760]

I feel the same way oddly about many later NES games that try too much for the hardware and feel like an anticlimax.

[Anonymous No.8232296]

>>8230545
He's hungry. A hungry homunculus, maybe?

[Anonymous No.8232308]

>>8230757
>how dare someone post about retro video games on a retro video game board

[Anonymous No.8233059]

The ZX Spectrum is too high level for the plebians on /vr/.

[Anonymous No.8233070]

>the Horace saga will never come to a close
It’s not fair vros

[Anonymous No.8233089]

What's the deep lore on Horace?

[Anonymous No.8233091]

>>8232308
I mean it's not a bad little game for 1982.

[Anonymous No.8233102]

>>8230470
>>8233091
If it were me I'd set the background colour to black. that grey/white seems as if it would burn a CRT TV after a while.

[Anonymous No.8233146]

>>8233089
The creator was making a fourth epic in the Horace series. He suffered a collapsed lung during development and put the game on hold and then dropped off the face of the earth. No one knows where he went or what happened to him but it’s presumed he died in the mid 80s

[Anonymous No.8233168]

>>8230470
>>8232308
Maybe so but the OP is dumber than dirt. Why would you even make a semi-serious ZX Spectrum thread? The board isn't capable of anything but shitpost replies. Seriously though you needn't bother. Just go make another SMB RPG or how cud we has saev Sega? thread instead.

[Anonymous No.8233176]

>>8233168
you're suggesting those threads aren't shitposts as well?

[Anonymous No.8233195]

>>8230545
I thought Psion were Aussies, no?

[Anonymous No.8233217]

>>8230470
Wow burgerbros we sure missed out on a lot without our Speccy didn't we...

[Anonymous No.8233225]

>>8233217
ok post some other '82 releases for comparison

[Anonymous No.8233234]

>>8233225
Irrelevant. There are no worthwhile video games until the NES and realistically not until the 16-bit consoles because even NES stuff has aged like old used diapers.

[Anonymous No.8233240]

>>8233234
admitted you had no argument

[Anonymous No.8233251]

>>8233240
I did have an argument. I said 90% of vidya pre-SNES isn't worth playing. What's hard about that?

[Anonymous No.8233258]

>>8230545

[Anonymous No.8233263]

>>8233251
your argument was Yuropoors r dum and make bad vidya unlike Ameriburger mustard race. yet I said ok but game's from 1982. show me a better one from that time and you admitted you couldn't.

[Anonymous No.8233267]

>>8233251
Just admit you BTFO by a weeb, lolfaggit.

[Anonymous No.8233279]

>>8233263
They do make bad vidya. But in the pre-crash era everyone did because games had no content beyond run up your high score. Japan eventually made good vidya Euros never did.

[Anonymous No.8233287]

The SNES and PS1/PS2 are the only retro systems you need anyway.

[Anonymous No.8233294]

From that time you mostly got stuff like this.

[Anonymous No.8233307]

>>8233294
yes and who the honest fuck wants to play that when they could play FF6 and Star Oceans instead?

[Anonymous No.8233318]

>>8233307
>quit having fun in a way I don't approve of

[Anonymous No.8233329]

>>8233318
Those games aren't fun though.

[Anonymous No.8233331]

This thread is getting willfully stupid.

[Anonymous No.8233491]

>>8230470
Meh. It's okay by early 80s standards but you have to also appreciate that era of vidya which not everyone does.

[Anonymous No.8233792]

Oi! This one's a cracker m8! Roight banger on me zeddex!

[Anonymous No.8233807]

>>8233792
Glad you like it Paddy

[Anonymous No.8234854]

>>8233307
I'd unironically rather play an old school maze chase game than some faggot rpg

[Anonymous No.8235310]

>>8232308
>how dare someone mock my retarded blogpost

[Anonymous No.8235323]

>>8230470
Bongs be like >i pity yanks stuck with the nes, this ugly pac man clone that used a barf color palette was the peak of gaming!
Side note: my favorite review title of a game ever, Horace Goes Skiing, was this:
“Horace as I remember him best, going skiing.”

[Anonymous No.8235492]

>>8235323
Dude, dude, dude. This game came out before the NES even existed. At that time the competition was more like a Colecovision or something.

[Anonymous No.8235502]

>>8230470
I hope every memory of pre-16 bit games is wiped from existence

[Anonymous No.8235570]

>>8235502
OP you can't bump your own thread.

[Anonymous No.8235609]

>>8234854
Based maze enjoyer

[Anonymous No.8235624]

>>8235310
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uCMX5xucRY

[Anonymous No.8235646]

I used to play tons of shit games like this on my 386 PC so I became kind of innoculated to stuff like the OP game. From reading this thread it's obvious what posters didn't have a PC as kids.

[Anonymous No.8235683]

>>8235310
Reformat the OP post in an "acceptable" manner. Do it faggot.

[Anonymous No.8235685]

[Anonymous No.8235693]

>>8235685
the Spectrum can't do that anyway 'cos no 80 col text

[Anonymous No.8235723]

>>8235492
remember that. The Spectrum came out April '82 which was 15 months before the Famicom launched.

[Anonymous No.8235878]

>>8235723
Yeah NES comparisons only become valid when you're talking late 80s games.

[Anonymous No.8235895]

>>8235723
>>8233195
The Horace games do seem awfully VIC-20 like; I wouldn't be surprised if Psion put out VIC-20 stuff though I don't know much about them tbqh.

[Anonymous No.8235909]

>>8235895
having checked out all three of them I would have to say HH was the best one as far as imaginative game design. Horace and the Spiders was like...just not very interesting. could still do without that horrible screams from the pits of Hell death noise though.

[Anonymous No.8235941]

>actually unironic and completely serious discussion thread about ZX Spectrum games
You've lost me, /vr/.

[Anonymous No.8236034]

>>8235941
>>8235723
you guys aren't getting it. yes in the 80s people played a lot of shitty games because it was all they had. but this isn't 1986 it's 2021 and I can download entire console libraries and play the best games they had. so what exactly does Spectrum shit have to offer me?

[Anonymous No.8236040]

>>8236034
I don't think anyone's claiming Spectrum games are as good as late period SNES JRPGs.

[Anonymous No.8236045]

>>8236040
nah actually I overreacted a little. tbqh most Spectrum fags are pretty humble, it's the Amiga guys who approach insane levels of cope and delusion.

[Anonymous No.8236220]

>>8236034
>so what exactly does Spectrum shit have to offer me?
Posting what this guy said in the famicom thread
>>8233027

[Anonymous No.8236625]

Are we really beating up a game from 1982 here? Really? Really?

[Anonymous No.8236659]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuu8Hco7ghg

it's just like...i don't think you can appreciate pre-4th gen games unless you're a literal boomer and have nostalgia for them

[Anonymous No.8236910]

Thanks to >>8230307 I've played this game. I'm American, but I bumped into my stepdad today (he's from Gloucestershire, around age 45) and told him I played Hungry Horace and he was delighted. He said his favorite entry in the Horace saga was Horace and the Spiders.

[Pr?nc?ss Sevenleaf No.8237058]

>>8233307
>why would you smoke meth when weed exists?

[Anonymous No.8237091]

>>8235683
>sup reddit. i decided to blogpost here instead of 4chan because i decided to not be a faggot for a day

[Anonymous No.8237101]

>>8236220
Any prove to what that anon said?

[Anonymous No.8237830]

>>8237101
Green Beret, Operation Wolf, Gauntlet, Rainbow Islands and Flying Shark are debatable, otherwise that list is likely bait/delusion

[Anonymous No.8238031]

>>8236659
I'm a millennial and enjoy pre-4th gen games. I'm pretty certain that there's Gen Z lads who can at least appreciate SMS and NES games if not the older-than-that systems and arcade titles.

[Anonymous No.8238198]

>>8238031
My youngest is a zoomer and he enjoys gen 2 and arcade games from that period. He even go there all on his own. His first console was a DSL, like many kids his age whose parents weren't deranged hipster faggots. But he wanted play older pokemans so I set him up with some emulators and let him explore old systems and their libraries. He even figured out that emulation is gay casual shit all on his own.
Not all zoomies are retarded casual faggots. Just all the ones here.

[Anonymous No.8238329]

>>8238198
I get what you're saying but you type like a retard. Easy up on the buzzwords homie.

[Anonymous No.8238359]

>>8238329
What can you expect from an oomerposter?

[Anonymous No.8239176]

>>8230545
I've seen him described as a disembodied bum. Can't remember who said it, maybe Mr Biffo.

[Anonymous No.8239757]

>>8238329
>it looks like you triggered a gay retarded casual hipster zoomie emufag
Mission accomplished

[Anonymous No.8240067]

Horace is scary.

[Anonymous No.8240220]

>>8239757

[Anonymous No.8240380]

>>8240220