LGR - Reader Rabbit - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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planescaped
I _learned_ more playing FF6, Age of Empires and Chrono Trigger as a kid than I -ever- learned playing a single edutainment game.
Nearly all are utterly worthless, POS time wasters designed less to impart knowledge and more to make money off contracts with schools. The Logical Journey of the Zoombini's is the only one I ever played that I'd say was worthwhile for what it was, and it was deleted from the computer lab after a week by one of the teachers because it was 'too gamey'.
Case in point.
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I _learned_ more playing FF6, Age of Empires and Chrono Trigger as a kid than I -ever- learned playing a single edutainment game.
Nearly all are utterly worthless, POS time wasters designed less to impart knowledge and more to make money off contracts with schools. The Logical Journey of the Zoombini's is the only one I ever played that I'd say was worthwhile for what it was, and it was deleted from the computer lab after a week by one of the teachers because it was 'too gamey'.
Case in point.
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grassulo
I played this as a kid back in 1991 in first grade, on a Commodore 64, the original 1984 version, also Number Munchers, and Oregon trail too, good times dying of dysentery!
In Third grade the school switched all the computers over to Macintosh and I was able to get that exact Commodore, still have it, and it still works all these years later.
On a side note, a Compact Flash card adapter is a great thing to have for loading software on one of these, saves a lot of wear on the disc drive.
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I played this as a kid back in 1991 in first grade, on a Commodore 64, the original 1984 version, also Number Munchers, and Oregon trail too, good times dying of dysentery!
In Third grade the school switched all the computers over to Macintosh and I was able to get that exact Commodore, still have it, and it still works all these years later.
On a side note, a Compact Flash card adapter is a great thing to have for loading software on one of these, saves a lot of wear on the disc drive.
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Mireille
I had a newer version of Reader Rabbit: 1st Grade on a CD, that came with another game called Mission: T. H. I. N. K. Both games followed an actual storyline, the Reader Rabbit one being some porcupine guy stole the stuff (scripts, props, costumes, posters, musical scores) for the play that they were going to hold that same night, so playing as the rabbit, you had to go on missions to recreate all the lost stuff. It taught language, math, art, and music.
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I had a newer version of Reader Rabbit: 1st Grade on a CD, that came with another game called Mission: T. H. I. N. K. Both games followed an actual storyline, the Reader Rabbit one being some porcupine guy stole the stuff (scripts, props, costumes, posters, musical scores) for the play that they were going to hold that same night, so playing as the rabbit, you had to go on missions to recreate all the lost stuff. It taught language, math, art, and music.
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Dea
I'm too young to know if my parents got this for me originally or my slightly older brother but I played this a lot as a kid as well as similar learning games. When I eventually went to school were using Microtype: The Wonderful World of Paws. My parents claimed I learned to type before I wrote by hand and while I've no clue if they mean that literally I was definitely using programs like this as soon as I was physically able to.
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I'm too young to know if my parents got this for me originally or my slightly older brother but I played this a lot as a kid as well as similar learning games. When I eventually went to school were using Microtype: The Wonderful World of Paws. My parents claimed I learned to type before I wrote by hand and while I've no clue if they mean that literally I was definitely using programs like this as soon as I was physically able to.
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Yu
If you like funny LGR Plays: Neo Aquarium: King of the Crustaceans, -Minecraft and Choose the next LGR results-, Slender, Train Simulator 2012, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause 2 Multiplayer, Duke Nukem 3D. If reviews: Donkey Kong Country, Cho Aniki, Extreme Rock Climbing, Depth Dwellers, Top 17 Worst PC games. Personally I'm a fan of the hardware reviews.
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If you like funny LGR Plays: Neo Aquarium: King of the Crustaceans, -Minecraft and Choose the next LGR results-, Slender, Train Simulator 2012, Surgeon Simulator 2013, Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause 2 Multiplayer, Duke Nukem 3D. If reviews: Donkey Kong Country, Cho Aniki, Extreme Rock Climbing, Depth Dwellers, Top 17 Worst PC games. Personally I'm a fan of the hardware reviews.
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GFG
Why did I watch this? Why do I like this stuff? Some questions just complicate processes so I'm going to ignore them and like this oddly intriguing video while at the same time asking you to stop this as it put my video production on hold. lol
-Smitten
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Why did I watch this? Why do I like this stuff? Some questions just complicate processes so I'm going to ignore them and like this oddly intriguing video while at the same time asking you to stop this as it put my video production on hold. lol
-Smitten
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EB
Reader Rabbit, my first edutainment programs were from the nineties CD series and its sister series for older kids the Cluefinders. Reader Rabbit is the reason I have an edutainment software collection of more than 100 titles, so I can't wait for April
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Reader Rabbit, my first edutainment programs were from the nineties CD series and its sister series for older kids the Cluefinders. Reader Rabbit is the reason I have an edutainment software collection of more than 100 titles, so I can't wait for April
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wilkie
Watched the first few seconds. Paused. Played Goblins Quest 3 for an hour. Learned nothing about reading but learned a lot about how to cheat death as a werewolf with disembodied hands and that warrior women will do anything for a shiny stone.
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Watched the first few seconds. Paused. Played Goblins Quest 3 for an hour. Learned nothing about reading but learned a lot about how to cheat death as a werewolf with disembodied hands and that warrior women will do anything for a shiny stone.
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Viehzerrer
So, that's the origin of the sad gas pump, I saw a while ago.
I find the game's obsession with three letter words rather questionable. It strikes me as a little too basic, even for a game intended to teach basic reading skills.
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So, that's the origin of the sad gas pump, I saw a while ago.
I find the game's obsession with three letter words rather questionable. It strikes me as a little too basic, even for a game intended to teach basic reading skills.
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StephyDee
OMG, I didn't realize THE Sir Sebastian was watching this video around the same time as me! Your presence is starting to follow me everywhere! You're like a plague. a plague of awesome. a plague of awesome taste in videos. :D
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OMG, I didn't realize THE Sir Sebastian was watching this video around the same time as me! Your presence is starting to follow me everywhere! You're like a plague. a plague of awesome. a plague of awesome taste in videos. :D
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