He has no mouth, yet I must scream: Hidden Gems for the Switch brings the horrors of Horace to American gamers

This just in from Nintendo Everything... after decades of blissful ignorance, Americans will learn all about Horace, the hollow-eyed specter which starred in a handful of games for British computers.

The Hidden Gems collection by Pixel UK features four Commodore 64 titles, including Gilligan's Gold (essentially a home port of the French arcade title Bagman), NOMAD (a colorful shooter with a focus on exploration), and Mutant Monty (scoop up gold in an action title with an overhead view).

However, the headliner is Horace Goes Skiing, where the spooky blue title character first crosses a busy highway to buy skis, then uses them to steer down a mountain littered with trees and slalom flags. Yes, this was a video game mascot in Britain back in the 1980s. He makes Dizzy the egg and James Pond look pretty appealing by comparison, doesn't he?

Anyway, the Hidden Gems collection is a reasonable $6.99, and that comes with free nightmares about Horace sneaking up on you in the middle of the night, a knife clutched in his... well, wherever a creature without arms would keep a knife. (No, that's not an arm on the back of his head; that's supposed to be his hair.)