Horace Goes Skiing
A downloadable game for Windows
Horace Goes Skiing
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Before Horace can get to the ski-slopes he must fetch his skis from a hut on the other side of a VERY busy road! Ski-Hire costs £10, as does a ride in an ambulance, so value to money is paramount!
After Horace has crossed the road and hired some skis (by walking in through the door of the hut) he must return across the busy road, and off up to the ski slopes. In the second part of the game, Horace must ski down the slope while avoiding the trees (which cause you to crash, thus damaging your skis) and rocks (which cause you to skid in random directions), slaloming between flags for extra points and (hopefully) crossing the Finish line for a bonus!
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Version 1.00
Remake Coding and SFX by Steve Watson
Graphics by Sunteam_Paul
Additional artwork by Richard Watson
This game was written using Multimedia Fusion 2 by Clickteam
Based on "Horace Goes Skiing" for the ZX Spectrum 16/48K.
Copyright (c) 1982 Beam Software/Melbourne House/Psion Computers
This game Copyright (c) Space-Time Productions Ltd 2009
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This game was the very first game I ever loaded when I first got my ZX Spectrum when I was young and this remake, I was sceptical at first.
Most remakes of old computer games are, to be honest, poor. Either the controls are not like they used to be, the graphics don't look like they're similar to the original game or the sounds aren't like it.
This one, however, is brilliant in every way apart from one. If you keep left or right pressed when you are skiing, Horace goes up on the skis but in this one, he doesn't go all the way, and as such, doesn't have the feeling that he's trying to turn sharp to nearly stop, like he did in the original, just carrying on going down.
Aside from that though, I have to applaud everyone involved in this game for making a fantastic version of this excellent Spectrum game.
9.9 out of 10 for me :D
Many, many thanks :)
Thank you for your lovely comments. My remakes have been somewhat hit and miss over the years (I'm trying to rectify this!) but I'm glad to see you enjoyed one of the better ones!
Many thanks 🙂
My pleasure. Many thanks for the game :D