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Living Books: Arthur's Reading Race

Arthur's Reading Race is the number fifteenth Living Books and the third Arthur Living Books game PC CD-Rom Game from 1997 based on the 1996 book written by Marc Brown and the CD-Rom was released in February…

17 February 1997

Living Books: Arthur's Reading Race is a point-and-click developed by Living Books, released 17 February 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Living Books: Arthur's Reading Race is

Living Books: Arthur's Reading Race is a point-and-click game developed by Living Books and released in 1997. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Arthur's Reading Race is the number fifteenth Living Books and the third Arthur Living Books game PC CD-Rom Game from 1997 based on the 1996 book written by Marc Brown and the CD-Rom was released in February 17, 1997.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are educational and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Arthur series

Living Books: Arthur's Reading Race is the fourth of 28 entries we hold in the Arthur series. It arrived 2 years after Arthur's Birthday. The next entry was Living Books: Arthur's Computer Adventure in 1997.

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What it launched against

Living Books: Arthur's Reading Race launched on 17 February 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Rally Cross.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Rally Cross.

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When did Living Books: Arthur's Reading Race come out?
Living Books: Arthur's Reading Race was released on 17 February 1997 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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