H Is For Horse And Other Hodge Podge

When we were recording our podcast this week, Blake Grundman described our grab bag of topics as a hodge podge. That phrase knocked loose an old childhood memory of a Commodore 64 game called, fittingly enough, Hodge Podge. A quick Internet search found that it's been archived and you can play it online in a browser. Hodge Podge is a primitive educational vocabulary game created by Leonard Bertoni & Rich Scocchera for preschool children that maps each key on the keyboard to a specific related animation and, sometimes, music. Press H and you'll be greeted with art of a horse....