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NIGHT MATH ATTACK
      by
Chris Evans
44 Shady Lane - RR7
St. Thomas, ON
Canada  N5P 3T2

Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

NIGHT MATH ATTACK.DOCS
     Want a game for the kids that's educational and constructive?  Tired
of them blasting aliens?  Night Math Attack is a motivational game for
practicing all 4 math operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division), created with help from an educational consultant.  Faster speed
and accuracy at these skills result in better problem-solving math ability
and higher test scores.
     The program has up-beat music, quality graphics, and no requirement
for fast hand control.  Following the title screen and instructioins, the
player chooses which math operation to practice.  The game screen has a
question at the top, 4 answers down the left side, a helicopter in the
middle, and a choice of sound on/off at the bottom.  The player uses
the joystick or cursor keys to fly the chopper up or down so it is level with
the correct answer, and then uses the joystick or space bar to fire a missle
at the answer.  A message then reports whether the choice was right or
wrong.  The wrong messages are followed by the question with the correct
answer to reinforce learning.  Wrong choices are generated randomly so that
students will not become used to the same choices after repeated plays.
After 20 questions a "report card" gives the accuracy rate.  There is a
printout option which prints wrong questions and out-of-time questions for
further study, which requires the printer driver to be in the devs directory
of the boot disk.  Practicing math facts as little as 5 minutes a day usually
results in a grade score improvement.

NOTES:
     Night Math Attack works on all systems tested to date:  the stock
A500 (512K), A500 (1 MB), stock A2000, A2000-030, A3000, and A4000.  Letters
from users are welcome.

December 1994