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Reader Rabbit

Reader Rabbit is an educational game for children 3 through 7 designed to help reading and spelling skills. There are four different word games to play of increasing difficulty: a word sorter, a picture…

31 December 1984

Reader Rabbit is a point-and-click developed by The Learning Company, released 31 December 1984 on Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari 8-bit and Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What Reader Rabbit is

Reader Rabbit is a point-and-click game developed by The Learning Company and released in 1984. It is available on Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Reader Rabbit is an educational game for children 3 through 7 designed to help reading and spelling skills. There are four different word games to play of increasing difficulty: a word sorter, a picture labeler, the word train, and a variation of the game memory.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Reader Rabbit launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Bomb Jack.

Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Bomb Jack.

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When did Reader Rabbit come out?
Reader Rabbit was released on 31 December 1984 for Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.

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