Ludography
Math Rabbit cover

1986 · Remake · Point-and-click adventure

Math Rabbit

Remake

Math Rabbit Deluxe is a DOS remake of the successful Apple II educational game.

Released
1986
Platforms
MS-DOSWindowsmacOS
Genres
Point-and-click adventure
Developers
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Publishers
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Perspective
Side view
Themes
Educational
Country
United States

About

Math Rabbit is a spin-off of the Reader Rabbit educational video game series. It was published by The Learning Company in 1986 for MS-DOS and Apple II. A Deluxe version was released in 1993 for MS-DOS, Mac, and Windows 3.x. In 1997, a remake was released for Windows and Mac as Reader Rabbit's Math 1. The final remake for Windows and Macintosh was published in 1998 as Reader Rabbit's Math Ages 4–6, with a personalized version released in 1999.

Keywords

  • math
  • math games

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The game takes place in a circus and teaches addition, subtraction, and counting in four different games, each of which with multiple difficulty settings. The game is for ages 4–8. The four games are:

Clown's Counting Games – the player is required to count with a number as a guide to pitch the tone of the musical instrument.

Development

The game was originally designed by Teri Perl and programmed by Aaron Weiss. Upon the release of the Deluxe edition, Bill Dinsmore, The Learning Company president and chief executive officer, said: "With the release of Reader Rabbit 1 and Math Rabbit for Windows, we now offer five Windows educational software products that help to develop important learning skills".

The original art of Math Rabbit was done by Analee Nunan. For Math Rabbit Deluxe 256 color VGA graphics were applied. The original music and sound composition were done by Teri Perl and Aaron Weiss. For Math Rabbit Deluxe, AdLib soundtracks were composed.

Reception

The program received highly positive reviews from critics. In particular, the Chicago Sun-Times championed it in seven articles.

The Los Angeles Times said the game was "sweet", though Millie's Math House made it "look kind of buttoned-down". FOGG praised the easy-to-use gaming interface, and The Washington Post said it is "entertaining" while incorporating valuable lessons into "colorfully fun graphics". Superkids described the game as "excellent" and said it was a great first introduction to educational video gaming for the target audience. Don Crabb, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, recommended the "outstanding" software for the 1989 holiday season and noted it was among the "high-quality educational software sold", and that it was one of the best educational releases for offering a "solid instructional model" for teaching kids the fundamentals of mathematics through "smoothly" integrating the gaming and learning without "bogging them down in mindless mathematical trivia", such as by teaching geometry at a very early age.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows31 December 1993Worldwide
MS-DOS31 December 1993Worldwide
macOS31 December 1993Worldwide

Editions and related releases

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Math Rabbit
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Math Rabbit

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