A strange little side quest
Grombi trivia break for Music Match: Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. And the history keeps stacking up: Arthur Wynne published a diamond-shaped 'Word-Cross' in the New York World on December 21, 1913; the name later shifted to 'Cross-Word' and then 'crossword'. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.