Seeing my kid engaging with Reader Rabbit and Freddie Fish and the like, it is amazing that games programmed decades ago can hold up entirely for the demographic they were aimed at. It doesn't matter if they look like janky Windows 3.1 games, to kids they are just colorful interactive cartoons.
Its so wild to see my local library still running ancient Jumpstart games and stuff like that, and they are as relevant as ever to their audience. I wish other old games could have the same treatment, less disposable with age, held up along side their modern counterparts as just More Games To Play.
Our media doesn't have to be disposable, just look at my local library jammin Reader Rabbit, front and center in the kids section.
a surprising number of them (including Freddie Fish) are available on Steam
