Horace Games on the T/S 2068
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Participants: Adam Trionfo
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1. Horace Games on the T/S 2068
Adam Trionfo · Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:28
Last night my friend and I were playing the homebrew game Ladybug on the Atari 2600. I pointed out that one of the baddies in Ladybug looks like the character Horace on the Spectrum. My friend had never heard of this series of games. To show him the character, we proceeded to play the following three Horace games on the T/S 2068:
1) Hungry Horace
2) Horace Goes Skiing
3) Horace and the Spiders
All three of these games are pretty good, with the third section of Horace and the Spiders probably being our favorite (that's the level that is a copy of Universal's arcade game Space Panic) and the first two sections of Horace and the Spiders being our least favorites. The Horace games aren't known for being terribly original, but they're interesting and somewhat fun.
What really turned us off to these games was how loud the music and sound effects are that blasts from the 2068's tiny internal speaker. We both wondered how people put up with not being able to control the volume of the sound on this computer without modifying it. I can't wait to read how to do this-- I can put up with a fuzzy RF picture, but I can't see myself tolerating the sometimes quite grating sound.
Adam