Today′s generation missed out on it alot and went straight from game machines to phones which DIDN′T and don′t have much if any educational value. Lot of them were old and getting ready to retire or a young women in their 20s who couldn′t/wouldn′t even turn them on.
The only problem with this and others that made *Edutainment* a cuss word in the eyes of the corporate lingo was a lot of school faculty at the time didn′t know diddly squat about computers so just used them as reward time plus Reader Rabbit gave these software titles a bad taste as schools had discounts if they used it as a mascot.