Reader Rabbit 3
{{Short description|1993 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Reader Rabbit 3
| image = Reader_Rabbit_3_Cover_art.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Cover art for Reader Rabbit 3 Deluxe!
| developer = The Learning Company
| publisher = The Learning Company
| platforms = Original:
DOS
Deluxe:
Windows, Macintosh
| released = 1993 (Original)
September 1994 (Deluxe){{cite web |url=http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/article_totoro.txt |title=INC-TOTO.DOC (6 INCIDENTAL mentions of TOTORO in long[er] articles) |website=www.nausicaa.net}}
| genre = Educational
| modes = Single-player
}}
Reader Rabbit 3 is a 1993 educational video game, part of the Reader Rabbit franchise. It was released for DOS that year, but was released for Windows and Macintosh in 1994 under the title Reader Rabbit 3 Deluxe!.
Plot
The game sees series protagonist Reader Rabbit join the Daily Skywriter, the daily newspaper for his home town Wordville. He has to identify the right information to put into his stories.{{Cite web|url = https://www.thefreelibrary.com/READER+RABBIT+TRIO+NOW+AVAILABLE+ON+CD-ROM!-a015869946|title = READER RABBIT TRIO NOW AVAILABLE ON CD-ROM! – Free Online Library|website = www.thefreelibrary.com|access-date = 2017-03-03}} The game was designed to build critical reading skills,{{Cite web|url = https://www.thefreelibrary.com/New+Version+of+The+Learning+Company's+'Reader+Rabbit+1'+Hopping+Onto...-a019018221|title = New Version of The Learning Company's 'Reader Rabbit 1' Hopping Onto Store Shelves Now – Free Online Library|website = www.thefreelibrary.com|access-date = 2017-03-03}} by applying speech rules to a real-world scenario.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5CmroQQZxTsC&q=%22Reader+Rabbit+3%22&pg=PA54|title = Working Mother|date = 1995-03-01|publisher = Working Mother Media|language = en}}
Gameplay
Reader Rabbit 3 is made up of five different activities that teach player's the structure of the English language. The following activities are:
- 1. What's the Scoop? / Who? What? When? – the player must determine correctly whether the topic of a sentence is a what, a where, a when or a who.
- 2. Clue Hounds / Get the Scoop + Crack the Case – the player must locate the what, where, when and who parts of story sentences. After completing the sentences the player must pick a character associated with the story.
- 3. Sneak Peek / Rave Reviews – the player has to choose a sentence that contains the three elements who/what, did what and where.
- 4. Ed Words / Write Right – the player must fill in the blanks of a paragraph with the three elements do what, where and when.
- 5. Printing Press – the player is given the option to physically print out the news story.
The game contains over 200 different news stories to work from.{{cite journal |date=June 12, 2000 |title=Annotated Bibliography of Computer Software for Teaching Early Reading and Spelling |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/ERIC-ED463618/pdf/ERIC-ED463618.pdf |publisher=Project Rimes 2000 |page=19 |access-date=March 3, 2017}} The Deluxe version contains 20 different digitized voices that add to the dramatization to the game.
Critical reception
PC Mag reviewer Charles Taft wrote that the game was "fun to play", while praising its replayability (four levels of difficulty and multiple stories), as well as its "delightful" animations.{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=G0SCDRC-VPQC&q=%22Reader+Rabbit+3%22&pg=PA415|title = PC Mag|last = Inc|first = Ziff Davis|date = 1994-04-26|publisher = Ziff Davis, Inc.|language = en}} The game was regarded as a winner in the book "Only the Best: The Annual Guide to the Highest-Rated Educational Software/Multimedia".{{cite web |title=History of the Learning Company |url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/the-learning-company-inc-history/ |date=1999 |access-date=March 3, 2017}}
References
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External links
- {{moby game|id=/reader-rabbit-3}}
{{Reader Rabbit}}
Category:Children's educational video games
Category:The Learning Company games
Category:Single-player video games
Category:Video games about rabbits and hares