Underplayed Gems

Wordmate (1980)

Wordmate cover

Platforms: Atari 8-bit
Where to get it: My Abandonware

How it feels

A slow, dry, text-based vocabulary game that feels like a basic classroom exercise.

educationalsimpletext-basedslowdry

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