Rocky's Boots

Rocky's Boots is an educational logic puzzle game by Warren Robinett and Leslie Grimm, published by The Learning Company in 1982.

It was one of the first educational software products for personal computers to successfully use an interactive graphical simulation as a learning environment.

Robinett experienced constraints due to The Learning Company being a start-up, forcing Rocky's Boots to be less ambitious than he would have liked.

The magazine approved of the game's lack of "nerve-wracking time limits or invading aliens" and encouragement of "exploratory learning" while teaching "nothing less than the fundamentals of digital computer logic from the ground up".

[6] InfoWorld commented positively on the game combining play with educational value and conveying circuit design and Boolean logic to children.

A screenshot from the Rocky's Boots game (DOS version) showing a message directing the player to build a machine that kicks only blue-colored crosses. — *Rocky's Boots* directing the player to build a machine that kicks only blue-colored crosses (DOS version)