---
title: "Horace And The Spiders"
id: 51728
type: "computer_media"
slug: "horace-and-the-spiders-2"
url: "http://localhost/computer_media/horace-and-the-spiders-2/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/computer_media/horace-and-the-spiders-2.md"
published_at: "2023-08-13T23:14:29+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-31T12:18:12+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Horace-and-the-Spiders-1.png"
excerpt: "A three-stage Horace platformer spanning a spider-dodging run, a thread-hopping ravine crossing, and an offensive web-stomping finale."
category:
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    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/archived-media/"
post_tag:
  - name: "Downloadable"
    slug: "downloadable"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/downloadable/"
  - name: "Timex Computer Corporation"
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  - name: "TS 2068"
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  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
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  - name: "Arcade"
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    taxonomy: "genre"
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media_type: "Cartridge"
download_url: "https://archive.org/download/timex-sinclair-software-archive/Horace And The Spiders (1984)(Timex)(US)(TS2068)(Cartridge).zip"
mediadate: "1984"
producer_company:
  - id: 11401
    title: "Timex Computer Corporation"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/timex-computer-corporation/"
images:
  - url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Horace-and-the-Spiders-1.png"
  - url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Horace-and-the-Spiders-2.png"
  - url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Timex-Horace-and-the-Spiders-box-front.jpg"
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    title: "Horace & the Spiders"
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    url: "http://localhost/product/horace-the-spiders/"
media_type_tags: "Arcade, Game"
---

A three-stage platformer following Horace through a spider-themed gauntlet. In the first stage, Horace runs forward and must jump over oncoming spiders to reach a hill leading to the next area. The second stage requires crossing a ravine by leaping between threads spun by spiders overhead, with mistimed jumps resulting in being reeled in. The final stage shifts to offense: Horace stomps holes in a spider web to draw spiders out for repairs, then stomps them while they are vulnerable.