Alpha Pairs (NES)
A downloadable game
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Dr. Atoz has fired up his amazing letter machine, and Alphy is hungry for letters!
Flip the cubes. Find the pairs. Win the letters! In Alpha Pairs, every matching pair you find drops a letter onto your rack. Use those letters to spell words and rack up big points!
Every level is a brand new board with its own shape, and each one is bigger and trickier than the last. How far can your memory take you?
HOW TO PLAY
Spell words from the letters on your rack and press PLAY. Longer words and rare letters score more points. Match pairs without a miss to build your multiplier all the way up to 20X!
But watch out for Alphy! Your rack only holds six letters. Win one more and Alphy gobbles up your oldest letter. Spell fast and keep your letters out of his mouth!
Keep an eye on your energy meter. It drains when you take too long, when you guess a word that isn't real, and when you forget a cube you've already seen. Spell words and clear boards to fill it back up. If it runs dry, it's GAME OVER!
SPECIALS
Earn tokens and spend them on powerful specials! REVEAL shows you the whole board for a few seconds. BOMB deals a brand new board when you're stuck. SUGGEST finds the best word your rack can spell. Use them wisely!
WORD RUSH
Clear five boards to unlock the WORD RUSH bonus round! You have 60 seconds to spell as many words as you can while new letters keep coming. Every word earns you tokens for the road ahead!
FEATURES
- Over 30,000 words to discover!
- 29 different board shapes!
- Hand-drawn pixel art and an original chiptune soundtrack
- A built-in tutorial that shows you every rule
- A high score table that saves your best runs, even after you switch off
CONTROLS
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| D-pad | Move the marker |
| A | Flip a cube, take a letter, press a button |
| B | Step back, or hand a letter back to the rack |
| SELECT | Open the specials box |
| START | Start, pause |
WHEN IT'S OUT
Play it in any NES emulator, such as Mesen, FCEUX or Nestopia, or on a real NES with a flash cartridge like the EverDrive N8 Pro!
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Match the pairs. Spell the words. Feed the meter. Just don't feed Alphy.
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