1993 · The Learning Company · Point-and-click adventure

Reader Rabbit 3

Reader Rabbit 3 is part of Reader Rabbit series, that is aimed at older children. When the Daily Skywriter News Company of World-ville needs some help, Reader Rabbit goes their to volunteer. In four different activities you try to match a word, or a sentence with seven word types who, where, what, why, how, did what and does what. In the activity Sneak peak you try to find a sentence that goes in a word type order and after finishing an entire story you get to see a cartoon based on it.

Released: 1993
Platforms: MS-DOS Windows macOS
Genres: Point-and-click adventure
Developers: The Learning Company
Publishers: —
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Educational Kids
Country: United States

About

Reader Rabbit 3 is an educational video game which is part of the Reader Rabbit series. It was released for MS-DOS in 1993, then in 1994 for Windows and Mac as Reader Rabbit 3 Deluxe!.

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

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?

Story

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. The game was designed to build critical reading skills, by applying speech rules to a real-world scenario.

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. The game was regarded as a winner in the book "Only the Best: The Annual Guide to the Highest-Rated Educational Software/Multimedia".