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Incomplete listing.

I came here searching for all the Oregon Trail games, and found none. I know there are at least 5 of them, plus a number of other "Trail" games that are not listed here. Someone who knows should spend the time updating this so that the list is more comprehensive. The Oregon Trail 1 and 2 games were some of the most popular games from my childhood, and Im sure many of yours. Iluziat (talk) 19:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Oregon Trail games were made by MECC, not The Learning Company.Sesame honey tart 18:49, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Super Seekers?

It's been ages since I played these games, but I distinctly recall the "Treasure" games as being part of a separate game line called "Super Seekers". Can anybody confirm this? Maetch (talk) 18:43, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. However, Treasure Mountain! was developed as the third Super Solvers game. It wasn't until Treasure MathStorm! that they split the series up, and I'm not sure if the rerelease of Treasure Mountain! made the changes as well. The Super Solver and the Super Seeker are probably the same person, though. Despatche (talk) 03:38, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistency

This page says Mettle bought from Kevin O'Leary's The Learning Company for 3.8 Bil The Kevin O'Leary page says it was aquired for 3.7 Bil. Small discrepancy, or large. It's all relative. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.66.94.112 (talk) 23:25, 25 March 2011 (UTC) A recent Globe and Mail Report on Business article (September 2012) states that Bain Capital made all the money, and Kevin O'Leary had only a small ownership stake. I would tag the article but can't remember how; appears to be an outright error.209.90.166.195 (talk) 13:12, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

https://archive.org/stream/E32001Guide#page/n91

Deltasim (talk) 14:50, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lead paragraph needs rewriting

The company's press releases describe themselves as:

The Learning Company is a consumer-focused division of HMH that develops fun, educational products that engage parents and students. By combining HMH’s award-winning instructional content with its beloved children’s characters (like Curious George, Martha Speaks and Carmen Sandiego), The Learning Company creates entertaining social games, mobile apps and other offerings that build upon essential classroom lessons and themes.[1]

Senator2029 “Talk” 10:23, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More "Just Trust Us" Wikipedia content

Skim the article for entire paragraphs without a single citation. And no hint, via flags, that the content is untrustworthy, and violating Wikipedia's own policies about tying content to published sources. Why not call this what it is, a communal blog? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:246:CA80:3CB5:388C:CA3A:2D7B:C936 (talk) 05:41, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And skim the edits for Igsbinc contributions, which appear pretty clearly to be be from an investment party to the business at the time of the writing. (An early one was caught by an IP editor, but not the later one(s). Leads me to ask: Are there any WP policies that are actually followed in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:246:CA80:3CB5:388C:CA3A:2D7B:C936 (talk) 05:53, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A citation that could serve as basis for an encyclopedic rewriting

For an article that provides history that can be traced and cited, see [2]]. Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:246:CA80:3CB5:388C:CA3A:2D7B:C936 (talk) 05:56, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Naming conventions

As they are now, my understanding is that this article should be titled The Learning Company (1980-1995), and the other one The Learning Company (1995-1999), not "(formerly SoftKey)."

That being said, I would put forward that The Learning Company is a brand - one still used today, under HMH/Riverdeep, which bought it from Mattel, which bought SoftKey - more than a company, and that this article should be rewritten with that perspective, with information about its time as an independent company, and its history under other owners - cf. Broderbund as well as Sierra Entertainment, Humongous Entertainment, MicroProse, ... HarashoEli (talk) 02:17, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Software: Fisher Price Series

This article lists Fisher Price titles that may have been re-released by TLC, but were developed and released by Davidson and Associates, their competitor, before TLC was bought by Mattel (who owned Fisher-Price). Similar to the note about Carmen Sandiego and Trail, they should not be included as TLC-developed software ("When The Learning Company purchased Broderbund Software and MECC, they gained the rights to the long-running Carmen Sandiego and Trail series, respectively. Only those games created during the ownership of The Learning Company are included here."). Even a quick scan of these titles with the Learning Company label on the internet can also be found with the KA label from previous years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.180.210.166 (talk) 23:26, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If all TLC software is to be listed, it ought to be complete. I worked at The Learning Company in Cambridge, MA at the time most of us were laid off at the very end of TLC/Softkey. Four of us engineers worked on a project for a simplified map program for children, including maps of USA and a number of other countries. I can't remember the product name. Just after the layoff, management discovered that several projects had not quite been completed, so they were forced to hire back some engineers, including myself, on an hourly basis at a rate we chose, to finish the work for a couple of months. I still have prototype CDs and packaging around somewhere from our successful finish and product release. It was clear that the layoff was a business decision, as our software process was actually very good (a large Quality Assurance department helped to find bugs before products were released, and we engineers fixed those bugs). David Spector (talk) 23:59, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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