1983 Melbourne House
Platform: Commodore Vic 20
This came as a bit of a shock when Chris Poacher first highlighted on the Vic 20 Facebook group that Melbourne House had advertised a Vic 20 version of Hungry Horace in Personal Computer Weekly back in 1983.
Sure enough, within the set of small inlay covers advertising the different Horace games, there is a green + yellow variation of the cover advertising a Vic 20 edition. Just underneath the platform, it suggests that the game needed an 8K memory expansion.
Oddly though, although the cover is shown – on the order form there is no option to actually pick the Vic 20 version. So was this a mistake, and had Melbourne House decided early on to drop the title?
It would be amazing if a conversion was found to have been started, and we will try to get in touch with a few ex-Melbourne House developers to see if they know anything about it. Chances of finding something are slim, but who knows!
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I have a copy of this game from 1982 by Beam Software.
Thanks Paul, and sorry this turned out in the end to be the 2021 tribute game Horace: https://sleepingelephant.com/~sleeping/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=10094
Thanks
This may change. I’m currently working on a Vic version of the game. Not sure how well that will go down, with Horace’s recent history. But it is a fun project to work on even for personal reasons. See link for details.
That is amazing! Hopefully it will all be ok, and good luck with it – its looking great!
Hey, im married to him!