8-bit hero Horace is often considered the unofficial mascot of the ZX Spectrum. In later years he’d go skiing and battle spiders, but the 1982 game Hungry Horace – now remastered on Steam for your gaming pleasure – saw him run around a maze eating flowers, ringing alarms and avoiding angry parkies.
This port was produced by Subvert Ltd., a company whose ownership of the Horace IP is dubious at best (probably best not to go into full details on this review). It's a pretty dreadful port of the original, which was itself a fairly naff clone of Pac-Man. If you're going to do a conversion, go the whole hog and either make it as retro as possible, with...
Took me straight back to 1983. Which was quite less stressful than 2025.
Honestly they should have just stuck to emulating the original Spectrum game. This recreation was noticeably off from the original and felt weird to play.
Horace on Steam! Controls: Awkward. Collision detection: Questionable. Sound: Awful. Just as you remember it.
For the uninitiated, this is an odd Pac-Man clone but not entirely - some of the screens don't even have mazes.
My biggest complaint is that the default controls are set to the cursor keys with no option to change them. (Edit: Thanks to a developer...
this is sorta like pacman but much more simple and with horace i really love horace he is cute hehe
