Rover, you dog, has been kidnapped. As you like your dog very much you try to save him. Use the mirrors in the levels to get the laser beem into another direction. You can kill the robots with this. Once you killed the robot, you can walk to your dog and get him. Then, you'll go to the next level and everything starts again.
Rescue Rover has a good gameplay.
The graphics aren't very great, but if you played this games in the days when it was just released, it might be fun to play for a while.
Reviewer: robstuart Rescue Rover is a remarkable game; good, fun but also highly educational. I am a secondary (high) school teacher of Mathematics and ICT and I first introduced this amazing game to a class of 15 year olds in the mid-eighties. It has genuine algorithmic properties and teaches children to think carefully about the order in which operations are carried out and how important that is. In order to rescue the dog, Rover, the player has to negotiate a grid which contains numerous obstacles but only one solution is possible; all tasks are possible but they all have to be carried out in the correct order or Rover will be zapped! This is quite scary when it happens but only if you are under 5. To explain the game a little, Rover gets zapped by one of the lasers but you can negate the lasers by pushing obstacles in their way or by pushing an angled mirror in front of them.
Understanding that Rover could be a great teaching tool, I introduced Rover to my children from an early age. This game can be played from the age of about three or four with, perhaps, some input from a parent. The first few levels are fairly straightforward but by Level 5 or 6 it starts to become more demanding. Originally I had the floppy disc Rescue Rover 1 from Softdisk Publishing (I still have it in fact) that is Levels 1-10, I then purchased Rescue Rover 2 which is another 20 levels. I am a Mathematics graduate and a good chess player but I can honestly tell you that some of the difficulties presented by the later levels are quite extraordinary. I have been up half the night trying to solve them and, on some occasions, needed a pen and paper to draw the grid as it is not possible to see the whole grid at a time. I seem to recall that there was at least one level that I never managed to solve. Even for the earlier levels, that you can solve more easily, dexterity, speed and good reflexes are also required and as soon as Rover is zapped by a laser you have to start from level 1 all over again and work your way through the levels remembering all the techniques that you have learned previously. It is a very demanding experience but very addictive.
Well all three of my sons developed a tremendous interest in computing and, more particularly, about how things worked. My oldest boy, who started playing the game when he was only three years old, has just started studying at university where he is studying Digital Media and in his first year he is studying to, wait for it, write games. But one thing’s for sure he’ll never ever write a game as good as Rescue Rover.
