LeapPad
The talking book that read along as you touched the page with a magic pen — and somehow made phonics feel like a toy. For a few Christmases in the early 2000s, the LeapPad was the present under every tree.
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V.Smile
VTech's chunky red-and-yellow "learning system" — the video game console parents actually said yes to. You jammed in a fat Smartridge, grabbed the joystick, and got Scooby-Doo or Dora teaching you letters while your older sibling smirked from behind a real controller.