A strange little side quest
The next time Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go Musical Tracks asks for one more try, remember that game ideas rarely appear from nowhere. 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: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
