“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.
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Screenshots
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- Loading Screen
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- Title Page
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- Screenshot, ZX Spectrum
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- Title Screen, ZX Spectrum
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- Screenshot, Colour cycling, ZX Spectrum
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- Ready to cross the road, ZX Spectrum
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- Horace Goes Skiing Game
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- Did not make it, ZX Spectrum
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- Screenshot, Skiing, ZX Spectrum
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- Screenshot, Skiing, ZX Spectrum
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- Screenshot, Skiing, ZX Spectrum
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- Screenshot, Skiing, ZX Spectrum
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- Start Skiing Again, ZX Spectrum
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- Title Screen, C64
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- Screenshot, C64
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- Courtesy of Lemon64.com
Box Art
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- Cassette Sleeve, ZX Spectrum
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- Tape Inlay, ZX Spectrum
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- Box and Inlay, C64
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- Commodore 64 Box Art with Pavloada
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- Box Art Dragon 32 Horace Goes Skiing
Media
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- Issue 16 , p 19, courtesy of World of Spectrum
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- Review on p23, courtesy of World of Spectrum
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- Horace Advertisement, p.29
Manuals & Walkthroughs
Video
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
Your Commodore
Issue 1 (Oct 84)
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