Did Disney try developing educational PC games for children?

[DodgerGirl]

I noticed that in the 90's Disney tried to jump on the educational games bandwagon with a series of Disney educational PC games and the first one was Disney's Math Quest Featuring Aladdin and I once had a demo of that game and thought the graphics were cool and the gameplay was great. Soon after Disney Interactive launched Phonics Quest Featuring Aladdin as well and when I first saw these games I think Disney was trying to copy the popular Jumpstart educational game series and it was a success. Then they also had a series of Winnie The Pooh educational games for toddlers and Mickey Mouse oriented games also geared to the toddler audience as well. Did Disney think these types of PC games would sell well?

 

[DodgerGirl]

I think what Disney was trying to do was launch their own line of educational software PC games to compete with the popular Jumpstart educational game series and beginning with the Aladdin based Disney's Math Quest Disney knew how well educational learning games sold to market to kids and toddlers and by putting Disney characters in these educational games they knew that they could appeal to a strong audience of kids and toddlers

 

[Cuioposaero]

Yeah for sure, edutainment was huge back then. Parents ate that stuff up, and Disney slapping Aladdin or Pooh on learning games was basically guaranteed sales in the 90s.