A strange little side quest
A little context makes Princess Slime Factory more fun to place on the gaming map. Barbie Fashion Designer became a major software hit in 1996, selling more than 500,000 copies in two months and proving there was a large audience for fashion-focused computer play. And the history keeps stacking up: Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.