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Horace is back, this time with a three stage game.

In stage one, Horace must climb the hills whilst jumping over the spiders. Stage two requires Horace to swing across a gorge on threads spun by the spiders. Unfortunately, if he remains on a thread too long a spider will hoist him up and inject him with its sometimes deadly venom.

If he survives this far, he has to face a 'monster' situation, as in Mikro-Gen's Panic, reviewed in the last issue. The spiders have spun their webs over the screen with connecting ladders. Horace must dig a hole in the web so that a spider will come and repair it. Whilst the spider is in the gap repairing it, Horace must jump on it repeatedly before it falls through and dies. My only complaint about this section is the fact that the spiders are too clever, and take a great deal of persuasion to repair a hole. The other stages could also have been extended slightly, but this might have taken the game to over 16K.

The Horace idea is novel and fun, which sums up this game, whilst adding that it is highly addictive.