Ahmed
BrentonWord and Math Rescue
October 25th 2006 10:34
Available on: PC
It has always been my firm belief that educational game will never be worth their salt if they focused first on education, then the game. So far from what I can see this theory holds true, any game that asks you to give the sum of three and three which will fail you if you don’t get it hasn’t met any success.
The more educational games focus on making the game fun and adding the education on top of that the better the end product is. I don’t understand why no one has come to that conclusion, and why this untapped reserve of money making potential hasn’t been, like violent games, been milked for all its worth?
Well that’s another topic all together I suppose, why gaming is so narrowly focused. There have been two games, related games, that have been created that simply defy the convention of ‘education first, game second’. They are called ‘Word Rescue’ and ‘Math Rescue’.
If you think this is another dull and drab ‘educational’ game for kids, well your thinking wrong. While the games are both very old they are still very fun. Easy to pick up and play and very entertaining. Think an early version of ‘Super Mario’ with education thrown in for good measure.
In Word Rescue you are tasked with finding pictures and then finding the correct word to match up. For instance if you get a picture of a cop you have find the word ‘cop’. If you make a mistake a bad guy pops up and you have to either dump pink gooey substance on them or avoid them. Other things you can do is hunt down the letters that make up the word for the level your on to get a bonus.
Math Rescue came after word rescue so it has some extra gameplay elements involved. While I found Word Rescue to be a lot more fun because of its more colourful atmosphere (and the fact I enjoy English more than maths oddly enough) that doesn’t mean math rescue is any less of a game. You have to in Math Rescue find the numbers from 0 to in that order 10 and every time you touch one of them it takes you into a room where you are asked a math question, be it purely numerical or worded. I found the levels to be quite a bit harder than Word Rescue, it is unfortunate but I don’t see how its intended audience could play Math Rescue for its game elements alone, though tis mathematical questions are well tailored for age.
They were both released years ago, before your little tyke was even born, is it a problem? No, as far as I’m concerned either of these games are better than the best available educational games on the market.
Both games allow you to choose the age, and ask for names to personalize settings per player. Math Rescue is best for ages 6 and up, Word Rescue is best for ages 4 and up, even pre-readers will have a ball with it.
Screenshots:
Download or Purchase Math Rescue
Download or Purchase Word Rescue
One final note, if you download the games you will need to extract them from the zip file as they are compressed. To do so simply download and install WinRAR, after which you can simply right click on the Zip file for either Math or Word rescue and click on ‘extract here’, after which you can click on the install executable and install it normally. Be sure to read the instructions when installing too, you’ll find it’s quite retro.
Word Rescue
Math Rescue
Well that’s another topic all together I suppose, why gaming is so narrowly focused. There have been two games, related games, that have been created that simply defy the convention of ‘education first, game second’. They are called ‘Word Rescue’ and ‘Math Rescue’.
If you think this is another dull and drab ‘educational’ game for kids, well your thinking wrong. While the games are both very old they are still very fun. Easy to pick up and play and very entertaining. Think an early version of ‘Super Mario’ with education thrown in for good measure.
In Word Rescue you are tasked with finding pictures and then finding the correct word to match up. For instance if you get a picture of a cop you have find the word ‘cop’. If you make a mistake a bad guy pops up and you have to either dump pink gooey substance on them or avoid them. Other things you can do is hunt down the letters that make up the word for the level your on to get a bonus.
In game screenshot of the room
They were both released years ago, before your little tyke was even born, is it a problem? No, as far as I’m concerned either of these games are better than the best available educational games on the market.
Both games allow you to choose the age, and ask for names to personalize settings per player. Math Rescue is best for ages 6 and up, Word Rescue is best for ages 4 and up, even pre-readers will have a ball with it.
Screenshots:
Download or Purchase Math Rescue
Download or Purchase Word Rescue
One final note, if you download the games you will need to extract them from the zip file as they are compressed. To do so simply download and install WinRAR, after which you can simply right click on the Zip file for either Math or Word rescue and click on ‘extract here’, after which you can click on the install executable and install it normally. Be sure to read the instructions when installing too, you’ll find it’s quite retro.
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