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Avish is a pretty nice old puzzler for PC/DOS gamers with a rather interesting history. Being distributed by BUG Multisystem Ltd. and being one of the few games ever developed in Isreal, the game was originally in Hebrew and popular among the few Israelis who played the game back in the early 90s (1993 to be precise), but the previously unreleased English version was released and distributed years later, allowing the game to be enjoyed by a greater audience. In the game, you play as "Professor Avish", a top university instructor who is invited to a certain town to give an important lecture to a large audience. While in town, he stays at a hotel for the night and ends up being transported to a strange castle full of locked doors and with nothing but his Pajamas and camera to comfort him. He somehow escapes while taking pictures and, come lecture time, decides to instead talk about his wild ordeal and how he made it out alive. However, he forgot how to get through the rooms, so your job is to view his slides and "demonstrate" how he got from one weird predicament to the next.

The game is kind of like Lemmings as you must traverse levels using a variety of tools you find and methods you develop, but you have direct control over your character and must carefully plan how to progress, otherwise you'll get stuck. There are a number of tools with different uses and you can also jump up one space and fall down four (before dieing from falling too far). As you progress, you'll find more devious traps, more perplexing puzzles, and even monsters who add to the frustration, but the game is also quite addictive. With over seventy levels and the ability to continue, okay visuals with smooth scrolling and character animations, and decent audio, the game is a good brain teaser which was mostly overlooked in its heyday but now enjoys a small cult following.

This is a video of the game in action. Enjoy.