Editing Spellevator

{{short description|1988 educational video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title = Spellevator
|image = 
|caption = 
|developer = [[MECC]]
|publisher = 
|designer = 
|released = 1988
|genre = [[Educational game|Educational]]
|modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]], multiplayer
|platforms = [[Apple II]]
}}

'''''Spellevator''''' is an [[educational video game]] for the [[Apple II]] published by [[MECC]] in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home {{!}} Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium |url=https://www.mecc.co/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=www.mecc.co}}</ref>

==Gameplay==
[[Image:SpellevatorScreenshotAppleII.png|thumb|left|Screenshot]]

The player controls a [[dust bunny]], which is chased by several [[vacuum cleaner]]s with different movement patterns. The objective of the level is to grab all the letters and exit through the upper left corner. The player can pass through an unoccupied elevator (some vacuum cleaners use elevators also) by correctly answering a spelling or vocabulary question. Once one completes a level, the player can receive a bonus by correctly unscrambling the letters one grabbed into a word.<ref>{{Citation |title=Spellevator v1.3 800K (woz-a-day collection) |date=2022-02-03 |url=https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Spellevator_800K |access-date=2024-09-30}}</ref>

''Spellevator'' has a utility on the disk's flipside that let a user create a word list and save it to any [[Apple ProDOS|ProDOS]] formatted floppy disk. This way, teachers could customize the game to fit their own particular vocabulary lists.

==Legacy==
''Spellevator'' was followed by ''Spellevator Plus'' for additional platforms.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spellevator Plus {{!}} Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium |url=https://www.mecc.co/mac--pc-products/language-arts/spellevator-plus.html |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=www.mecc.co}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://crucialclassics_14.1up.com/ Educational game article at 1up.com]

[[Category:1988 video games]]
[[Category:Children's educational video games]]
[[Category:Apple II games]]
[[Category:Apple II-only games]]
[[Category:Video games developed in the United States]]
[[Category:The Learning Company games]]
[[Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games]]
[[Category:MECC games]]

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