Back to School Spell Factory

A strange little side quest

There is a neat bit of history hiding behind the kind of play you find in Back to School Spell Factory. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. A second detail makes the picture even better: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. Not bad for a few facts hiding behind a Play button.