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Hungry Horace Revisited Reviews
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.
| App ID | 1408630 |
| App Type | GAME |
| Developers | Pixel Games UK |
| Publishers | Pixel Games UK |
| Categories | Single-player, Full controller support, Includes level editor |
| Genres | Action |
| Release Date | 17 Sep, 2020 |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Supported Languages | English |
8 Total Reviews
5 Positive Reviews
3 Negative Reviews
Mixed Score
Hungry Horace Revisited has garnered a total of 8 reviews, with 5 positive reviews and 3 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mixed’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
15 minutes
A superb throwback to a simpler era of gaming, this is a wonderful updating of a classic game.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
12 minutes
this is sorta like pacman but much more simple and with horace i really love horace he is cute hehe
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
14 minutes
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 response I've found that good old QAOP works as well. This is of course authentic, but I'm finding it difficult to readjust to. Control remapping would still be good.) Achievements, to increase the long term appeal, wouldn't go amiss. Got to admit I have better memories of Horace Goes Skiing; hope that one is on the way as well, and more 8-bit games of this vintage.
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
9 minutes
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.
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
31 minutes
This port was produced by [b]Subvert Ltd.[/b], 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 [i]Pac-Man[/i]. If you're going to do a conversion, go the whole hog and either make it as retro as possible, with the character-based movement and 4:3 aspect ratio of the original, or modernise it with new graphics and sound; don't leave in this halfway house, where smooth animation and alpha-blended pickup animations are jammed into the 1982 visuals like a square peg into a round hole. If you're really desperate to play this game, don't part ways with your cash - just download the original 16K tape version from the internet (don't worry, it's legal, Melbourne House have consented to its distribution). P.S: The game listing mentions the inclusion of a level editor, which I have been unable to locate. I would love to be corrected on this, not that it would help my opinions of the game-play.
👍 : 37 |
😃 : 0
Negative
