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- ====== Hungry Harry in the Haunted House ======+ ====== Hungry Harry in Haunted House ======
 This game was published by [[qlwiki:Snowsoft]] in 1985 and is a variation of the Pacman theme This game was published by [[qlwiki:Snowsoft]] in 1985 and is a variation of the Pacman theme
  
 +It was advertised in QL User in March 1985 as:
  
-It was advertised in QL User (March 1985) as: +Duck from swooping bats, avoid the ghosts, eat the garlic then kill Dracular before the coffin closes (the typo is original)
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-"Duck from swooping bats, avoid the ghosts, eat the garlic then kill Dracular before the coffin closes" (the typo is not mine!) +
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   * Multilevel Pacman type arcade game   * Multilevel Pacman type arcade game
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   * Large multicoloured sprites   * Large multicoloured sprites
  
 +You move Harry around the colourful mazes and the aim is to eat up all of the garlic, while avoiding the four ghosts that are trying to catch you - unlike Pacman however, the ghosts move quite slowly but they can glide over the walls, so you need to use tactics (and the holes in the walls) to avoid them! Level 4 is night mode, where you do the same but cannot see the walls of the maze. Eventually you will reach the level with Dracula, who has to be killed with a stake. 
  
-We have now managed to preserve a copy of this game (which has meant we have had to fix some bugs to get it working).  You move Harry about the maze eating up all of the garlic, whilst 4 ghosts try to catch you - unlike Pacman however, the ghosts can glide over the walls, so you need to use more tactics to avoid them!  +The original cartridge is copy protected and includes a clone program to create a backup. This program makes one working copy of the original cartridge before deleting itself on both the original and the copy. So you only get one backup. High-scores are also saved to a separate file called names.
  
- +Compware also listed a program at the same time called [[qlwiki:Hungry Harry]] - it is unknown whether these were both the same game.
-We have only tried the first level and there are no power pills either, so it looks as though you can only run away from the ghosts. +
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-Compware were also listing a program at the same time [[qlwiki:Hungry Harry]] - it is unknown whether these were both the same game.+
  
  
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-Title: **Hungry Harry in the Haunted House**\\ +Title: **Hungry Harry in Haunted House**\\ 
 Language: SuperBASIC and 68000 Machine Code Sprites\\  Language: SuperBASIC and 68000 Machine Code Sprites\\ 
 Author: Richard Snowdon & John Goodwin\\  Author: Richard Snowdon & John Goodwin\\ 
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 Sources Available from: n/a\\  Sources Available from: n/a\\ 
 Latest Version available from: Unknown\\  Latest Version available from: Unknown\\ 
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