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For the fans of and those who remember The Learning Company's Reader Rabbit CD-ROM games.

I've been looking through some very old CD-ROM games I had in a little case from when I was kid. I got to test them out on an old computer I have (it still runs Windows XP). I booted up some of the Reader Rabbit games and they still work!

I was inspired by them so I ended up making this thing. Here we have Reader Rabbit and Mat the The Mouse standing amongst a background random educational symbols. I was trying to recreate the background of the opening animation of the game when it boots up.

The first Reader Rabbit game was released in 1983 for the Apple II home computer. Reader Rabbit had so many releases throughout the 90's and a part of the 2000's. Some games have been released to the Nintendo Wii. However, games like: "Reader Rabbit 1st Grade: Capers on Cloud Nine", "Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade: Mis-Cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures, and "Reader Rabbit Preschool: Sparkle Star Rescue" were all planned to have port for the Nintendo DS; but unfortunately they were all cancelled. The only Reader Rabbit game that has a port for both the Wii and the DS is "Reader Rabbit Kindergarten: Bounce Down in Balloon Town". The most recent Reader Rabbit game ever released was back in 2018. It was called "Reader Rabbit: Jumpsmarter", it was only an iOS / Apple TV exclusive.

Sometimes I come across games like these from sites that archive abandonware like this and I just play them for the hell of it. It's just one of those things that remind of simpler times.

Reader Rabbit (C) The Learning Company / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Description
For the fans of and those who remember The Learning Company's Reader Rabbit CD-ROM games.

I've been looking through some very old CD-ROM games I had in a little case from when I was kid. I got to test them out on an old computer I have (it still runs Windows XP). I booted up some of the Reader Rabbit games and they still work!

I was inspired by them so I ended up making this thing. Here we have Reader Rabbit and Mat the The Mouse standing amongst a background random educational symbols. I was trying to recreate the background of the opening animation of the game when it boots up.

The first Reader Rabbit game was released in 1983 for the Apple II home computer. Reader Rabbit had so many releases throughout the 90's and a part of the 2000's. Some games have been released to the Nintendo Wii. However, games like: "Reader Rabbit 1st Grade: Capers on Cloud Nine", "Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade: Mis-Cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures, and "Reader Rabbit Preschool: Sparkle Star Rescue" were all planned to have port for the Nintendo DS; but unfortunately they were all cancelled. The only Reader Rabbit game that has a port for both the Wii and the DS is "Reader Rabbit Kindergarten: Bounce Down in Balloon Town". The most recent Reader Rabbit game ever released was back in 2018. It was called "Reader Rabbit: Jumpsmarter", it was only an iOS / Apple TV exclusive.

Sometimes I come across games like these from sites that archive abandonware like this and I just play them for the hell of it. It's just one of those things that remind of simpler times.

Reader Rabbit (C) The Learning Company / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt