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Reader Rabbit

aka: Reader Rabbit 1, Reader Rabbit and the Fabulous Word Factory
Moby ID: 6818
Commodore 64 Specs
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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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Average score: 90% (based on 1 ratings)

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Average score: 3.0 out of 5 (based on 13 ratings with 1 reviews)

One of the first games I've ever played.

The Good
When I was 2 years old (that'd be 1989) my dad got this game for his old Commadore 64.

THAT'S 64 KILOBYTES OF PURE COMPUTING POWER, BABY!!!!

Anyway... this was one helluva fun educational game for a kid, and it had alot of fun activities, like organizing words, and memory games, etc.

The Bad
Well the game is just terrible for graphics by todays, but the CGA is really nostalgic for me.

The Bottom Line
I can't really recommend this game for anybody's kids nowadays, because the controls are a little clumsy, and the graphics and sound would sound pathetic on most modern computers...

Not like you could actually get the game working, except maybe with DosBox.

DOS · by bombad_jedi (4) · 2005

Trivia

In the short toon "Peasant's Quest Preview" on Homestarrunner.com, the creators show a made-up game of theirs called "Rabbit Algebra" featuring graphics used in most games during the eighties and like Reader Rabbit is meant to be educational.

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Game added by Servo.

Apple II added by The Game Boy. Atari 8-bit added by Highretrogamelord89. Commodore 64 added by Karsa Orlong. Apple IIgs added by Kabushi. Macintosh added by ZenicReverie.

Additional contributors: Andrew Shepard, formercontrib, Karsa Orlong.

Game added June 28, 2002. Last modified August 30, 2023.