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Spellevator is a video game for the Apple II computer, published by MECC (now part of Mattel's The Learning Company). It was one of the first commercial games to use the ProDOS operating system.

A rough ASCII art depiction of the main playfield follows:

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The player controls a dust puppy (* on the screen shot), which is chased by several vacuum cleaners with different movement patterns. The goal 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, he or she can get a bonus by correctly unscrambling the letters one grabbed into a word (in this case, definitely).

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