Home Computing Weekly


Horace And The Spiders

Categories: Review: Software
Author: R.E.
Publisher: Sinclair Research
Machine: Spectrum 16K/48K

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #16

The Story so far: having satisfied his appetite and relaxed (!) by spending a few days skiing, our rotund hero is now about to attempt to fend off invasion of deadly spiders.

To do this he must first climb a mountain (also jumping over wandering spiders), do a Tarzan act across a valley using dangling spider web threads and, finally, climb up and along various levels of spider web, stamping to create holes into which the spiders pop to repair. This allows Horace to stamp on their heads until they fall to their death. (Some similarities. methinks, to a well-known arcade game.)

As you would expect from Psion excellent graphics and animation, good sound, careful use of colour, clear, simple instructions and a tape which loaded easily.

The control/keys are well set out, the game is fast and the difficulty level increases for each set of spiders stamped to death. Pressing S holds the game while you get your breath back. Addictive factor: 100 percent.

R.E.

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