Reader Rabbit (video game)

Reader Rabbit
Developer(s)The Learning Company
The Connelley Group (Atari 8-bit)[1]
Publisher(s)The Learning Company
SeriesReader Rabbit
Platform(s)Original
Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Macintosh

Talking
Apple IIGS
Reader Rabbit 1
MS-DOS
Deluxe
MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Mac

Reader Rabbit's Reading 1
Windows, Classic Mac OS
Release1984 (Original)
1989 (Talking)
1991 (Reader Rabbit 1)
1994 (Deluxe)
1997 (Reading 1)
Genre(s)Educational
Mode(s)Single-player

Reader Rabbit (fully titled "Reader Rabbit and the Fabulous Word Factory" or alternatively known as "Reader Rabbit Builds Early Learning & Thinking"[2]) is a 1984 educational video game and the first of the long-running Reader Rabbit edutainment series. It was made by The Learning Company for Apple II and later for other computers. It supports the KoalaPad graphics tablet.[3] The Connelley Group helped with the Atari 8-bit computers conversion in 1984.[1] A Talking version was developed for the Apple IIGS in 1989. An enhanced version was released for MS-DOS -n 1991. A Deluxe version was released in 1994 for Mac and Windows 3.x. In 1997, the game was remade for Windows and Macintosh under the title "Reader Rabbit's Reading 1".

  1. ^ a b "Atari Mania - Reader Rabbit". Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  2. ^ Brett Alan Weiss. "Reader Rabbit - Review - allgame". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  3. ^ "Reader Rabbit and the Fabulous Word Factory" Manual. The Learning Company. 1984. p. 11. Retrieved March 5, 2017.