Reader Rabbit's 2nd Grade Walkthrough
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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I will be perfectly honest with you -- I was never partial to Reader Rabbit as a kid. I found most of the games to bland, generic edutainment games of little substance. This stood out as an exception to me though. I thought it was a genuinely clever game, and while it was educational, it didn't forget it was a game. Sure, some parts may just be glorified quizzes (Like Read and Reflect Hallways and Castle Journals), but I think the Skillways make up for most of that. It's quite sad I haven't seen too much footage of this game on UA-cam, because I think it actually deserves more than it gets credited for. The videos of it that exist do have a lot of views, so I decided why not go get another copy? And that's how this walkthrough came to be. I probably won't be walkthroughing another RR game because, simply put, I don't find any of the others to be that good.
Now, as for the walkthrough, I should mention I used Virtual PC 2007 for this, which is why the sound hiccups are a little frequent. I tried VMware, but it breaks the platforming controls to the point of near unplayability. I tried recording this off my main computer, but it's a 256-color game, and it didn't record right, even with HyperCam. So Virtual PC was left as my only choice. Thankfully I'd say it worked pretty well, which is great because I would have had to pull out my OmniBook if otherwise! I think I should also say this is the initial release of the game. There's also the personalized version (which has footage on YT), and Learning Creations' reissue. I grew up on the initial version, so that's why I went for it.
In this game, you control Sam the lion and traverse through three towers in Sir Drayson Dragon's castle, in attempt to rescue Reader Rabbit. You go through several different activities in order to earn widgets, which are a way of tracking your progress. Here are the activities you go through...
Skillway: Everyone's favorite, for good reason. They're loosely platformers, with several words and pictures scattered over the walls. There are 10 per tower, making it the most common activity. You're told only to look for a certain type of thing though. Occasionally, bonuses appear, but not until Tower 2. I think I should confess something -- I don't know how to read more complicated Roman numerals. I actually pulled out my iPod off-screen to check the numeral form before I went in.
Read and Reflect Hallway: Let's be honest -- nobody liked these. You almost always get the same questions, sometimes ending up with the example questions! You're given 3 sentence, and you have to choose whether each of them or their underlined portions are one or the other (There's Fact/Opinion, Fact/Fantasy, Cause/Effect, and Main Idea/Detail). There are 4 per tower.
Science Factway: A glorfied R&RH. You get pictures here, and you get a widget for completing it. Not much else to it. Due to the widget, though, there are only two per tower.
Runway: The first tower for this is a joke. Sam doesn't even run, he merely WALKS. Anyway, you basically have to run through the shapes they tell you, because, you know, SECOND GRADERS DON'T KNOW THEIR SHAPES. Well, to be fair, it actually does get pretty fast by the third tower, but the controls can be a little too sensitive. You can only make three mistakes, and they don't cost you points if you make one. There are 4 per tower.
Castle Journal: A once-a-tower deal. You're given a scenario, and you write about it. Or not, given nothing prohibits you from writing what you want to. You do get extra points for spelling right though, so typing in gibberish isn't going to do you much good. You can record your voice, but I'm using a VM, so I couldn't. As you can imagine, I had some fun with these, though I didn't go over-the-top to keep it kid-friendly. As an added bonus, you even get a widget!
Enchanted E-Mail: Another once-a-tower activity. It's basically like mad libs. You can choose to make your letter stupid, or you can make it logical (Reader has reactions for both cases). I decided to show the "correct" ones for all three. You also get a widget for doing this.
That's basically what I have to say. I hope you enjoy this walkthrough, and have a nice look down memory lane.
I'm 23 and I need to play this again
Who says your too old for classics like this? 😊
glad to see im not the only one in that boat
Allie Jayne me too
hell yea
22 but close enough
Shit was so intense as a kid.
This is so dope
30 years old and I finally found this game. I played it in 2nd grade… takes me back
Ikr I was thinking about it and couldn't remember if it was real or not lol like oh ya I remember this! Lol
28 year old here. cant believe my eyes when I saw it again it was like time traveling
Has it really been that long? How the time flies
@@ChristGriphahahaha this was the best frigging game! Got me thru school! :) lol jk.
I was looking for this game for ages, used to love this game.
Omg I finally found it, took me ages to remember! Man I loved this game so much, the nostalgia is really kicking in ;)
+GMD Azure Me too, I only remember the lion (and reading rabbit) and the fact it was in a mansion...finally found it! :D
+GMD Azure Same here, I can't believe I was finally able to find this game. I loved this game when I was in kindergarten.
So true
omg were old
@@Diamond1234 lol I'm out here typing 'computer learning game castle lion'
The music in this game is very memorable. I appreciate you allowing each section of the game to play out instead of speed running through it.
Agreed
did the ending scare the shit out of anyone else as a kid? i don't remember why but it was really unsettling when i beat the game
matter of fact many parts of this game were very creepy to me
Seriously.. I dont know why but the nostalgia associated with this game gives me some really weird creepy vibes
I was just disappointed I wanted to see Sam rescue Reader.
The sound effect in Skillway when you pick a wrong answer scared me when I was a kid. Some other bizarre things about this game scared me too. I really thought I was the only one lol
Yes! It freaked me out!
No!
i never got far in this game...it always stressed me out and i was always paranoid that something scary would pop out in the hallways or the knight armor lmao
Same tbh
yes this game was weirdly scary!
Im glad im not the only one that felt that way Omg
You know what's really funny....
My brother and I were talking about this just now and I found it for him, forgetting I found this years ago. Then I saw my previous comment from 4 years ago on here hahahahaha!
You know you don't have a love when you spend two hours of your Saturday night watching a reader rabbit game.
FML.
The perfect girl doesnt exi-
Who needs love when youve got the corageous sam the lion there for you? More than i need imo
It's Saturday night again
This game used to scare me when I was little... It still sort of gives me the creeps, especially the Lab Skillways...
I use to play this game when I was a kid! It's just like meeting a old friend!
My brother and I played it, too.
There's actually a lot of good music in this game.
that's actually why I remembered about this game, the awesome music popped into my head
A good reason to come back to it!!!
Just like sonic heroes 2004
I would literally play this game every day, i love the 90s
I liked stories that were scary as a kid, and when I first played this game, I was disappointed at the end when the dragon turned out to be a good guy. I thought we were going to get an epic fight. But my disappointment didn't last long, because the ending was hilarious. I haven't played this game in years.
40:15
I KNEW ALL THE LYRICS TO THAT SONG AS A KID! I'd sing it around the house constantly and my mom would be like "wtf..."
thank goodness I'm not the onlt one
SAME
That song sounds so beautiful and sad at the same time
I was in 3rd grade when this game came out, and I would play it with my cousin, who was in 2nd grade. We used to tear up when this song would come on. There was something wrong with us lol, but it might be a testament to how good the music was in this game.
I remember going through this game thinking "when does it end?!?!"
the nostalgia is way too real for this game :)
This game was disturbing when I was a kid for some reason.
Oh my gosh yes
I got scared of the flying things when the castle seemed to be empty
This game was kind of scary for me when I was little lol. It felt lonely and the parts where Sam is running down the hallway gave me so much stress
@@justsupershiny So much anxiety 😐the music didn’t help either
The Dragon is also: The Mirror, Mario and Luigi, Alistar Loveless on Cluefinders 4th grade, The Cat in the Hat and Yertle in all three Dr. Seuss games, Shakespeare and Beethoven in Carmen Sandiego's great chase through time, Jack Ramone on Cluefinders Search and Solve, Ice Breaker on Cluefinders reading adventures
Sam the lion is also: The professor in Cluefinders 4th grade, Spike the porcupine in Reader Rabbit, Stone head in Cluefinders Reading adventures, Mojo JoJo and Butch on the powerpuff girls.
this haunted me for years! thank you for putting this up so I know I remembered correctly😂😂 can't believe I found this because all I remember from this game was a lion running through an neverending hallway😅
I always loved the character of Riddle/Rhyme. She was such a unique character in my eyes, that I would actually look forward to doing the Skillway just for her.
The nostalgia hammer just hit me right in the face, I can't believe I found this game again
I liked this game, until about halfway through tower 2. At that point, despair set in for my little 2nd grade heart, and I began...HATING this game. Really, truly hating it with a burning fire inside me that filled me with rage at the very notion of ever playing it. But I knew that I had started it, I had made it halfway through the game, and I would FINISH IT.
And that's the story of how that twisted little second-grader turned into an extremely twisted adult that I am now.
Same here, but I could never beat it. The castle just scared me to death!
@conzuh... dude same lol
Yess finally found this game!! Searched for a total of about 3 hours to find it.. for some reason this game creeped me out as a kid. I remember the hallways being darker.
The amount of dopamine this is giving me from the nostalgia holy moly
I hated the essay or summary parts. I always get lazy when I was little.
+GamingDude888 Don't worry, you're not alone. My essays basically amounted to me hitting random keys on the keyboard. Something like:
kljhad jhalkfhdaklj wuieroap qoi u ajdflkajsdlk fioauopeuwroakjd fal;kj dals;kfj a;iuwoea;jdkha fjkah fjskahgfuwa jkah fuawyherla
But since I'm older and can articulate thoughts better now...I tend to be a little more creative with it :)
so did i
LaurySeas Otter Lol yeah ^^
Saaaaaame. My least favorite part.
I liked them because nobody else could read them I got shy easily
holy shit i was looking for this!!! i had to call my mom to ask her what this game was called!! i was like "mom what was that game i used to play when i was really little with the lion and the fractions??" and she remembered!!! same with The ClueFinders!!!! damn i used to replay the ending all the time because i loved watching reader rabbit and sam go on the rocket, it drove me wild.
where did the time go
I remember the Reader Rabbit games. I played Reader Rabbit Toddler, Reader Rabbit: Learn to Read with Phonics, etc. Did you know that there's another game series made by the same company called "The ClueFinders," which is a counterpart to this series for older children? I think you'd like its games since they're pretty much like the Junior Adventure games made by Humongous Entertainment.
CEO100able I loved cluefinders!!! Ahhhh brings me back
Finally he knows the learning company
I lowkey remember having nightmares about being trapped in the castle as a kid
Oh my god, that rabbit(?) with the split personality. Memories.
This takes me back
Randomly remembered this from my childhood. Sitting down at the kicthen bench with my chunky ass laptop trying this shit to load up. The nostalgia is real. 😭😩
Man this brings me back. So many memories.
Is it me, or does Sam the Lion's voice sound different in this game?
CEO100able yes as he was voiced by roger l Jackson, the voice of butch (the voice he was making in the game) mojo in the powerpuff girls, and ghosface from scream.
Fun fact: the dragon is voiced by Mario himself; Charles Martinet :D
+jetlifejd So is Monstrous Mirror!
So Mario voice acted to dragons in his lifetime. A wacky dragon and a powerful Dragon who betrayed his brother
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS..... OH MY!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
20 years. 20 years I’ve been searching for this
I loved this game when I was about 6 and watching it now is honestly surreal.
Dude this game was an absolute trip. It somehow was one of the best games I have ever played as a kid
1:19:07 Btw was that Bowser’s Head mounted on the wall?! 😳
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS GAME OMG THANK YOU
When I was young, this game was the scariest thing Ive seen. Idk why I was scared of this game
This videos gives me so many memories. I totally forgot about this game until I recently found the game laying around my parents house.
Oh man, this brings back memories... though for some reason this game scared me when I was little, lol.
Edit: Also a big fan of the southern belle knight, who I completely forgot about til now. :P
I'm from England and I had this game and it was in British English with different voices for the characters. I had quite a few of the learning company's programmes. Good Memories from my childhood. Thanks for uploading the game!
Do you think different UK Voices were needed Sarah? The original ones here don't seem like they'd turn off British fans
I'm not saying that they're needed in any sense of the word. When I played the game, it wasn't in American English was all I was saying.
The song at 1:15:34 has gotten randomly stuck in my head for the last 18 years. Oh man the nostalgia.
I played this when I was 8, im 30 now and have FINALLY found this game! Ive had snippets of it in my memory for years!!
Monstrous Mirror is still my spirit-thing.
This was my fave reader rabbit game ever
Mine too man!
this game was freaking legit.
Thank you so much for uploading this. I feel like I'm reliving my childhood. The stories you wrote got a good chuckle out of me. 😄 And who knew how much personality could show through cursor movements? 🤣 And thanks for letting us bask in the soundtrack, it's much appreciated.
40:15 MY FAVORITE SONG
The first time through on most of the activities I decided to let you listen to the music, since a certain uploader forgot a few. Every other time I just let the dialog finish.
Brings back memories
The nostalgia is soooo real right now wow.
I imagine if this was a Mario crossover, because the Magic Mirror's voice is ACTUALLY Mario!
The moment the perfect run ended: 1:00:39 lol
I have been trying to find the game with "a lion, a dragon, and a demented jester creature" from when I was a kid...for *years*! Thanks to wikipedia and Google (and you) my search is at an end! Yes!
Actually I think I played the "personalized" one you mentioned in the description. Either way though, this was an awesome nostalgia trip and confirmation that the game I remembered *did* exist!
I KNEW THIS MEMORY WAS LOCKED AWAY SOMEWHERE IN MY BRAIN. i literally searched "lion learning game pc" and found this. Amazing!
Gosh, so much nostalgia! This was mine and my sister's favorite game. We used to reenact it all the time with toys. XD
I would have sworn on my mama this was a fever dream. I'm so glad I played this and the kindergarten game growing up.
I hated this one at first cause I wasn't reader rabbit but by the end of the game I fucking loved it.
This game messed me up as a kid. I had terrible nightmares. It's reassuring to find this again almost 20 years later, see all the comments, and know that I wasn't the only one.
I find it hilarious now that the dragon I was so afraid of as a young kid was voiced by the same person who voiced Mario in the Nintendo games I enjoyed around the same time.
Another thing - as a kid I literally thought this was a slender man or FNAF type game where I would need to avoid the dragon and sleuth around the castle while completing puzzles, or risk getting jump scared and the lion dying. I had no context as young kid to know that kind of this was never going to happen in an educational game like this. I have no idea how I had these preconceptions in my mind well before games with these sorts of mechanics ever existed.
oh my god I'm 21 this was my childhood I couldn't find this anywhere
After 21 years i still remember that two-headed jester
"Allright students, go ahead and close the game and log off. Class is almost over."
Wait, Charles Martinet played Sir Drayson and Monsterous Mirror?! Man this man more of my childhood than i thought
Omg all these sounds! The nostalgia!!!
I remember playing this when I was 4 or 5 at my babysitter's house. I'm almost 30. 😂. So much nostalgia here.
20 years later I find it THANK YOU!!!!!!
I get Harry Potter & ‘Labyrinth’ vibes from this. I missed this game so much from growing up .
Man I played this game so many times as a kid. Such fond memories. Thanks for posting this, it took me a bit to remember what the game was called.
I remember thinking that this game was creepy and that the ending sucked. Did I still play it over and over again? Heck yes.
Now this is what I call a trip down memory lane.
Damn from putting on a play to saving your “kidnapped” friend. 2nd grade was rough, man. Bring me back to 1st!
THIS BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES! EVEN THOUGH IM 20 AND IN COLLEGE I REALLY WANT TO PLAY THESE GAMES!
Holy sht I finally found it. I've been looking for this for 5 years.
thank you so much for uploading this….the sounds throw me back
That little court jester Riddles and Rhymes creeped me out so much as a kid lol
Wow. Sam has a really annoying voice.
Totally remember this game btw.
Also the logic at around 10:37 is hilarious. Both are actually facts. It is a fact that "reader rabbit thinks [etc.]" If it were stated "sam is the bravest lion in the world," it wouldn't be, but as soon as you add someone else's perspective like that it's instantly a fact since it's telling what they're thinking, saying, etc.
Surprisingly his voice actor is Roger Jackson who you may know as Mojo Jojo from The Powerpuff Girls. Not bad for a guy who I grew up with who voices a deep stern monkey bad guy on a cartoon about 3 little girl superheroes beating the crud out of villains.
***** Oh, that's pretty cool! The more you know. :D
wow. this one was hard to remember. i could only vaguely remember something about a castle. made researching it not particularly easy
I'm 31 I played this in 2nd grade crazy how I remember this it just popped into my head years later great game great memories
Sir Drayson Dragon 1:15:41
Sam the Lion Singing 40:17
Same here! I loved Sir Drayson Dragon's song!
I’m so amazed that not only is Drayson voiced by Mario voice actor Charles Martinet, but I’m amazed Martinet can also sing, as he performed the whole dragon song himself.
42:38 Looks like Mario finally defeated Bowser for good. It explains how he got this castle.
Butch, mojo jo jo, and Mario. Never thought of that.
The Magic Mirror is Charles Martinet aka the voice of Mario....
Looks like Charles fit right in. After all, Mario did have a floating head on the Super Mario 64 menu screen!
ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?!
Yes, that is Mario.
wow wow wow , nostalgia really hittin me, thank you for uploading!!
This game taught me subject more better than School.
i had completely forgotten about this series of games. along with scamp and one other game i still cant remember these were the best memories of my childhood.
I missed my whole childhood when I played this and I need to play that again
What?! Charles Martinet was involved in this game?? Damn, now we got Super Mario involved.
This is one game i remember playing so much of. It was tough but i loved it
One of my fondest memories of this game is 6:39
Same with 41:23 and 17:01
3:50 Mario's laugh! Charles Martinet voices Monstrous Mirror and the dragon.
54:29 that's the sort of stuff I would write when my teacher (2nd or 3rd grade) wanted me to put multi-sentence answers when I could sum everything up in one sentence.
Roger Jackson who voiced Sam The Lion also voiced Mojo Jojo
Roger Jackson as Sam the Lion. Also the same man that voiced both Mojo Jojo and Hol Horse from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
I remember watching my brother play this as a smalle child and finding it really unsettling especially the animation of him falling into the void
I never played this one, it's definitely the final test for all those kids who played reader rabbit up from toddler to 2nd grade! More intense and challenging than the previous entries, even Mat the mouse is nowhere to guide kids.
Believe it or not, Charles Martinet, the one and only voice of Mario, plays a few characters in this game!
At 38:13 you were like: "this is terriblegame design"
I remember getting this game with my mum very soon after it came out. Played it soo much, Really wanna play it again haha
I remember this game. It was so fun
Sam the Lion and Campbell:"HELP!, WE'RE FALLING" 2:15