one of Edu-Ware's best-selling titles: it proved too outside the mainstream to be considered a true hit. Interactive simulations In 1982 Edu-Ware introduced a third brand, Interactive Simulations, when it released Rendezvous: A Space Shuttle Simulation, developed by NASA scientist Wesley Huntress. Accompanied by a thick "Spacecraft Operations" manual with a chapter on use in the classroom, this flight simulator was marketed as being as educational as it was fun to play but still was able to have been used in an educational setting. Dragonware While the typical Edu-Ware educational product adopted a very serious tone in its instruction, developer John Conrad had created a series of educational products such as Introduction to Counting and Spelling and Reading Primer for Edu-Ware that was designed for the younger learner and thus more playful than the typical Edu-Ware product. However, two of Conrad's later products, Spelling Bee Games and Webster’s Numbers, fell so far into the realm of edutainment that Edu-Ware created a fourth product line for them in 1983. The Dragonware line featured a dragon mascot named Webster, who was to be the child's companion in this series of educational games. Peachtree software Edu-Ware's final products – the comprehensive Learning to Read literacy series, the final chapter in the Empire role-playing video game saga, a Tranquility Base lunar lander simulator, and a children's game called Merry Canned Nightmare’s and Dreams – would each have fit well into its Science of Learning, Interactive Fantasies, Interactive Simulations, and Dragonware brands, respectively. However, Edu-Ware's new owner, MSA, decided to strip Edu-Ware of all its brands and marketed the entire software line in identical packaging, bearing the logo of its Peachtree Software accounting software division. All of the products were promoted as being educational software – even such games as Prisoner 2 – until the product line was sold to Encyclopædia Britannica in 1985. Published titles References External links Edu-Ware Services, Inc. title list — on the Internet Movie Database. 01 01 Defunct educational software companies Defunct software companies of the United States Defunct video game companies of the United States Software companies based in California Video game companies based in California Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles Companies based in Agoura Hills, California American companies established in 1979 Software companies established in 1979 Software companies disestablished in 1985 Video game companies established in 1979 Video game companies disestablished in 1985 1979 establishments in