SoftKey (1986)

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SoftKey played a major role in the dissolution of the edutainment industry by the turn of the millennium.^[2] Contributing factors include its reduction of the market price by releasing shovelware discs of freeware and shareware,^[3] hostile takeovers of major edutainment software companies, reduction of these acquisitions to a skeleton staff, and questionable financial practices to maintain its stock price.^[2]