A strange little side quest
Put Candy Stacker next to the history of learning games and a few unexpected connections appear. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That gives Candy Stacker a little more company than it first appears to have.
