A strange little side quest
If Simon Memorize Online sends you down a curiosity rabbit hole, start here. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. The same trail leads to another fact: Alexey Pajitnov created Tetris in 1984 after drawing inspiration from pentomino puzzles, then simplified the idea around shapes made from four squares. That gives Simon Memorize Online a little more company than it first appears to have.
