SOFTWARE REVIEW: ASTRO-QUOTES

by Jerry White

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Program Design Inc.
11 Idar Court
Greenwich, CT 06830

Astro Quotes by Dr. Dean Victor is a package of two programs on cassette. The programs will run on any 16K Atari 400/800. They loaded flawlessly and came with adequate documentation.

I found Astro Quotes to be educational and fun. The screen displays are very professional looking and the sound effects blended well. The object is to fill in a famous quotation by finding the words to go with the four definitions supplied. When a correct answer is given, that word is filled in. The letters of that word are also filled in wherever they appear in the other words and in the quotation. A score of 100% is given when each word and the quotation are filled in correctly.

If you can't finish any given puzzle, you can give up by typing a question mark. The remaining letters will then be filled in for you and the percentage based on the number of letters you had correct at that time.

As a bonus, you are given the author of the quotation and the dates of the author's life span. No you don't have to know dates or authors. You just play the word game and hopefully learn something along the way. A typical quotation would be, "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729."

Each program contains dozens of quotations making the package well worth the $14.95 price tag.