World of Alice: Plant

A strange little side quest

Before the next round of World of Alice: Plant, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. It also connects to a different milestone: The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. Not bad for a few facts hiding behind a Play button.