A strange little side quest
World of Alice: Animal Sounds belongs to a much longer story of play than a browser tab might suggest. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. That long chain of experiments is part of why learning games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
