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The classic "Asteroids" game is one of the first and best known games in the history of video games and arcades. As such, it has received a variety of clones and imitations on a variety of platforms. This time, it is a computer game similar to "Asteroids" with a light educational bent - learning words and phrases in Hebrew. In the original Asteroids game, you control a spaceship that is floating somewhere in the depths of outer space, and has to protect itself from countless stray asteroids, big and small, that are floating next to it in space. The spacecraft is able to shoot asteroids, thus splitting them into smaller asteroids, until at a certain point they are small enough to be destroyed with a single shot. Thus, you have to survive as long as possible, and blow up as many asteroids as possible. Our game, Astro-Letters, is not very different conceptually. However, nevertheless there is one fundamental difference that jumps out immediately: this time, the striking difference between the various asteroids is not their size or speed of movement, but rather the Hebrew letter they carry. Which brings us to the goal of the game, beyond dodging asteroids and exploding them: at the bottom of the screen some phrase in Hebrew is displayed, and the player must explode the asteroids bearing the letters that make up this phrase. When he manages to locate the appropriate asteroids and destroy them, he can move straight to the next word. The game itself was distributed with only one word in the list of phrases to be found: Mike, named after the creator of the game, Mike Medved. And if this name sounds familiar to you, it's because "Astro-Letters" is not Mike Medved's only game, and certainly not the most famous of them. The aforementioned Mike is none other than the creator of the mythical game " Intifada " which was very popular in our regions in the late eighties. However, the game contains instructions that explain how to add additional phrases and even an animation that will be shown once any phrase is perfect. So if exploding asteroids is not an educational enough activity for you, maybe exploding asteroids while learning Hebrew letters is the direction you should turn to... |
