A strange little side quest
A quick detour while Roxie's Kitchen: Cheesecake waits for your next move: 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. The same trail leads to another fact: Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. Not bad for a few facts hiding behind a Play button.