Horace Goes Skiing
Game Meta:“Horace Goes Skiing”, released in 1982, was a spin-off from the successful “Hungry Horace”. “Horace Goes Skiing” is initially similar to the arcade game “Frogger”. In this instance, Horace has to negotiate a busy and dangerous road, in order to get to the ski shop, to rent a pair of skis. Horace has a starting purse of $40, from which every ambulance fee (when you get hit on the road) costs $10, and the skis themselves will set Horace back $10.
Once Horace manages to rent the skis, he has to make his way down the slope, negotiating the flags and not hitting any trees. Once you complete each course, or if you hit a tree, you are sent back to the beginning.
Play Horace goes Skiing at the Internet Archive
Controls: left “1”, right”2″, up”3″, down “4”
Version information:
William Tang designed and wrote the game for the ZX Spectrum that it was famously packaged with the hardware at point of sale. At Beam Software the Commodore 64 version of “Horace Goes Skiing” was not a straightforward conversion but was programmed from scratch by Gregg Barnett.
Alfred Milgrom contributed to Horace’s character design.
Screenshots:
Loading Screen
Title Page
Screenshot, ZX Spectrum
Title Screen, ZX Spectrum
Screenshot, Colour cycling, ZX Spectrum
Ready to cross the road, ZX Spectrum
Crossing the Road, ZX Spectrum
Did not make it, ZX Spectrum
Starting to Ski, ZX Spectrum
Screenshot, Skiing, ZX Spectrum
Screenshot, Skiing, ZX Spectrum
Screenshot, Skiing, ZX Spectrum
Start Skiing Again, ZX Spectrum
Title Screen, C64
Screenshot, C64
Screenshot, C64
Box Art:
Cassette Sleeve, ZX Spectrum
Tape Inlay, ZX Spectrum
Box and Inlay, C64
Commodore 64 Box Art with Pavloada. Courtesy of Gamebase64
Box Art Dragon 32 Horace Goes Skiing, Courtesy of The World of Dragon
Media Coverage:
Computer and Videogames, 1983
Home Computing Weekly, April, 1983
Popular Computing Weekly, October, 1983
Gameplay videos:
Additional Game Releases
Horace Goes Skiing
Gregg Barnett created versions of William Tang's three popular Horace games. He re-wrote the games so they worked fluidly with the very differing requirements of the Commodore 64's graphic and processing.Horace goes Skiing on the Commodore 64 featured the Pavloada created by Andrew Pavlumanolakos. http://www.ourdigitalheritage.org/archive/playitagain/creators/andrew-pavlumanolakos-2/
Platform/s: Commodore 64
Developer: Gregg Barnett - Programming
Company: Beam Software - Developer
Company: Melbourne House - Publisher
Horace Goes Skiing
1983Platform/s: Timex
Company: Psion Software Ltd - Developer
Company: Sinclair Research Ltd - Unknown
Horace Goes Sking
1984 Dragon 32 conversion credited to Denver JeansPlatform/s: Dragon 32
Developer: Russel Comte - Graphics
Developer: Greg Holland - Graphics
Company: Melbourne House - Unknown, Publisher
Zeudaz comments that accompany the youtube clip of Horace goes Skiing (ZX Spectrum) featured here.
Uploaded on Dec 17, 2011
Zeus presents Horace Goes Skiing (un-emulated) for the zx spectrum. A true classic from the golden era of spectrum gaming which must not be forgotten alongside the software house and all programmers that were involved in making this game.
Year of release: 1982
Ahhh… The very first home computer game i ever saw round a mates after school, my holy grail so2spk, telling my dad how stunning it was (oh how embarrassed am i now) which resulted me getting my first speccy which started off my entire gaming addiction.
The second game in the Horace series and the most famous, still great fun to play especially the road crossing stage (Frogger on speed!)
Paul Morrison at the “They were our Gods” recalls his passion for Horace’s Skiing adventure on the Spectrum. He points out the idiosyncrasy of the multi-lane free-way on a mountain top and the games similarity to David Crane’s “Freeway” (1981) for the Atari 2600 published by Activision.
http://theywereourgods.com/zx-spectrum/2013/4/4/horace-goes-skiing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPpPWE_vNA8
Attached image:
Your Commodore
Issue 1 (Oct 84)
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