Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
Math Rescue is an educational game similar to Apogee's other edu-game called Word Rescue. As always there's a nice story behind these games. All the numbers in the world are missing in Math Rescue. Road signs are blank, the numbers of the telephone are gone. All numbers have disapeared!
In Word Rescue the Gruzzles stole all letters out of books, so it must be the Grizzles who stole all the numbers. It's your task to take them back. You can get the key to the next level by solving small math questions like 5 - 3 = ?
As this game is ment for young children of 6 years and older, it might be fun to play for them but for older people it might be boring. Maybe you played this game when you were 6 yeard old. In that case, download it.
Math Rescue has good graphics, a nice gameplay and recognizable Apogee sounds. This will make that a lot of young children love to play this game.
Reviewer: Illusiveraven
As a home schooling mom of three children, I love the Apogee games for my kids, especially Math Rescue. I downloaded both of these games back in the mid nineties on my Windows 95 System. My kids loved them then, when my two oldest children were six and five. A year later, when the youngest was two, she already loved to move the mouse around, following the colourful images. As the kids grew up, amazingly they have still remembered both Math Rescue and Word Rescue by Apogee and have asked me to download it again, just for fun.
This Dos-based, rather simple game, makes it easy for kids to manoeuvre around and at the same time learn. However, they are having so much fun that they don't even realizes they are learning. If you don't let the kids on line at an early age, which I didn't, then the graphics are even more fun. However, I think it's the bright colours, the cute monsters, and the simple sounds that really keep their attention. At their young ages they really don't need the over-stimulation that some of the games give them, especially when they are trying to learn. These simple DOS-based games allow them the time they need to think while they are learning since there aren't too many things on the screen to bombard them.
As a home schooling mom, I recommend both Math Rescue and Word Rescue by Apogee. The simple, repetitive work of both of these programs is especially necessary at their age. Math Rescue especially meets the need of working on their math facts time and time again. There are several problems to solve and children to work through several levels in the old "Mario Brothers" sort of way. These games were originally written and given out completely as freeware. I'm not sure if Math Rescue has gone to shareware because it is more popular or just because Apogee is such a big company that it can now afford to charge, but if you have young children, it is worth paying for. If you have older children that need work on their math facts, it's worth paying for. And if you are a game aficionado that just loves to check out the classic games, especially the ones that were written in DOS, it's worth getting, just for fun. Frankly, once I download it for the kids, I'll get on and play it too.
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