Word Rescue Dos Game5/2/2021
While Word Rescue isnt really the most educational of games, young children who somehow happen to be into DOS platformers will probably enjoy it.After all, people play games to avoid learning, not to get more of it.
Still, there are a few games that mix both gameplay and learning pretty well. Pretty much anybody with a grade school education in the 80s will remember Oregon Trail. ![]() The monsters known as the Gruzzles have stolen the words out of the worlds books because they cant read, and they dont want anybody else to, either. As a child of either male or female gender, you must help Benny Bookworm find the missing words and put them back into his magic book. Of course, these are words such as dog and cat, since something like say, establishmentarianism would be hard to fit into a little EGA icon. The basic game structure is similar to other Apogee platformers of the time, such as Duke Nukem. Since its a kids game, however, theres a lot less firepower involved, and the game focuses more on exploring. Each level has a bunch of Mario-esque blocks scattered around, and touching one of these will give you a certain word, while revealing pictures hidden under the rest of the block. After you reveal a word, you touch its matching icon, and theyll disappear. Once you match every wordpicture pair on a level, Benny will give you the key to the level exit. The Gruzzles will occasionally try to stop you, however, either showing up somewhere in the level or if you make a wrong match. If you hit the space bar while standing near one, Benny will appear and dump a bucket of slime over it. You only have so much slime, though, and if you run out, youll have to avoid the enemies until you collect some more. You can get more slime either through finding more buckets or by spelling the levels bonus word out with letters you find in the levels. The game is actually a little unforgiving for its target demographic. You can only take one hit, and if a Gruzzle touches you or if you fall into a pit, youll be sent back to the start of the level. Sure, the levels are short and dont have any real hazards or gimmicks besides the pits, but thats a little harsh for a game made for kindergartners. Of course, while there are multiple difficulty levels, the hardest of which is apparently meant for children ten and up, the fact is that if your ten year old is still learning words like dog, they may need a lot more than an educational platformer. ![]() Theres a good amount of variety in the level themes, ranging from castles, caves, and haunted houses. Some of the icons that go with the words might be a little ambiguous, but you can see which icons go with which words by hitting the W key. While the sounds are only PC speaker bleeps, theres actually a pleasant, almost jazzy Adlib soundtrack, although theres only a few tracks, which eventually starts to get repetitive.
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