Avish!
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The university instructor Professor Avish has been asked to give an important lecture, and was invited to stay in a hotel the night before. When he woke up in the morning, while still in his pajamas, he discovered to his amazement that he is not in the hotel, but in a mysterious castle with many rooms. Eventually the professor was able to escape from the castle and make it to the lecture. He then decided to change the original subject and instead narrated to the audience what happened to him in the castle. He has taken pictures of every room, but unfortunately forgot how he managed to get out of any of them, so that remains for the player to figure out.
Avish! is an Israeli-made puzzle game with action and platforming elements. Each room in the the castle is built like a puzzle area, and the player's goal is to leave it, proceeding to the next one. The professor must avoid obstructions in order to find the key that will open the door to lead him out of the room.
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- אביש! - Hebrew spelling
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Average score: 80% (based on 1 ratings)
Players
Average score: 2.4 out of 5 (based on 7 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
After my last review I was contacted by one of the game's authors, Amit Ameli, who had some good points to make regarding it. I revised it, so here is what I have to say:
Basically Avish! is just not a good game. It has some merit for being one of the very few Israeli games to have ever been written, but it doesn't matter since basically even for 1993 it just isn't much good. I suppose you could say that some of the puzzles were challenging, but that's about it.
The Bad
According to Amit the entire plot is a joke on their "astronaut" history teacher, so I'll refrain from making any comments about that.
The graphics are just plain bad. The sound effects are absolutely horrible, and the music wasn't much good either. According to Amit the really difficult puzzles begin at about level 40, but I was so fed up with the game I didn't even bother to go that high. The Hebrew version is good for a laugh.
The Bottom Line
In short, not a good game at all, and as my brother just put it - "no point playing it." I couldn't agree more.
DOS · by Tomer Gabel (4536) · 2000
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The original game comes with a 5 shekel (~$1 US) discount for other BUG games as well as a leaflet with a Super Nintendo Entertainment System advertisement.
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Game added by Tomer Gabel.
Additional contributors: Trixter, Crawly, Patrick Bregger.
Game added March 19, 2000. Last modified February 22, 2023.