Davidson Product Sampler 1997

Описание: Here's a lil' sampler I've been meaning to show you, this is from the Fisher-Price Great Adventures Castle (1998) CD-ROM. Here we get to play with a professor's sampler machine and have a look at many products that were once available from Davidson & Associates. For those who don't know, Davidson was a educational software company based in Torrence, California. They first started around the early 80's with the Math Blaster series of educational software (And in later years, brought us the cult-classic Fisher-Price Read & Play Puddle Book Library). They continued well into the late 1990's, until when Knowledge Adventure bought them out.

From Wikipedia:
Davidson & Associates (or simply Davidson) was an educational software company headquartered in Torrance, California and published the Blaster series, including Math Blaster and Reading Blaster. In 1995, Davidson released 3D Jungle Train for Windows 95 based on new 3D software in which the player had to find a lost diamond and would be rewarded with a video adventure to other parts of the jungle. Bob and Jan Davidson sold the company in the early 1990s and founded the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

In 1989, Bob Davidson became Chairman and CEO of Davidson and Associates, Inc. Jan Davidson continued her role as President focusing on building the product development side of the business. In the next few years, Bob formed strategic partnerships with Fisher Price, Simon & Schuster, Kaplan, Inc. and made several strategic acquisitions, including Blizzard Entertainment in 1994. In 1996, the company was acquired by CUC International and merged with another large educational software company, Knowledge Adventure which published the JumpStart series of educational games.