McGee has the run of the house. It's early morning, Mommy is still asleep, and McGee can do pretty much as he pleases. Think of how your toddler will love that scenario.
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An adult will take only ten minutes to explore everything McGee can do. An adult will enjoy the quick tour and admire the excellent graphics, the sound, and the cleverness of the ideas involved. An adult will think McGee and Katie are as cute as their own toddlers. An adult will miss the point entirely.
Little tykes will see it with entirely different eyes. Remember how often your two-year-old wants you to read that favorite story? Remember endless repetitions of a favorite song or game? Toddlers don't do ring-around-the-rosey once or twice; they do it over and over again, even if nothing changes.
And so it is with these preschoolers' games. They go with McGee all over the house and play with the toys and make phone calls again and again, delighting in the actions each time. The little ones also find things you missed when you went through the house with all your grown-up wisdom. Did you think to look out the knothole in the fence more than once? If you had, you would have seen an apple fall out of the tree across the street the first time. The next time, you'd have seen the neighbor's dog run by.
The kids love the feeling of control. They decide what to do and make McGee do their bidding. They don't need adult help; they're in charge. There's great excitement for toddlers who can say, "I can do it myself!" They also like using the computer, doing their "work" with it just the way Mommy and Daddy do.
And they love to share their experience—as long as they remain in charge.
— Richard Mann, Compute! (November 1990)
Lawrence Productions
Games
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mcgee.zip
Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Mini vMac
