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{{Infobox video game

| title = Learning with Leeper

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| image = Learning with Leeper cover.jpg

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| developer = [[Sierra Entertainment|Sierra On-Line]]

| publisher = [[Sierra Entertainment|Sierra On-Line]]

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| platforms = [[Apple II]], [[ColecoVision]], [[Commodore 64]], [[Atari 8-bit family|Atari 8-bit]], [[ZX Spectrum]], [[Tandy 1000]]

| released = {{Video game release|1983}}

| genre = [[Educational video game|Educational]]

| modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]

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'''''Learning with Leeper''''' is a 1983 [[educational video game]] developed and published by [[Sierra Entertainment|Sierra On-Line]]. Similar to ''[[Learning with FuzzyWOMP]]'' (1984), it teaches [[color|colours]], [[number]]s, and the [[Latin alphabet|alphabet]] to players.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vF8EAAAAMBAJ|title = Black Enterprise|last = Ltd|first = Earl G. Graves|date = 1984-09-01|publisher = Earl G. Graves, Ltd.|language = en}}</ref> It reuses the character from the Sierra On-Line game ''[[Lunar Leepers]]''

== Development ==

"A Brighter Future For Early Learning Through High Tech" asserted that, in 1984, several commercial software developers had decided that "there is a market for children as young as three" in the gaming space. ''Learning With Leeper'' is one such game that attempted to appeal to this segment.<ref>{{Cite journal|last = Behrmann|first = Michael M.|date = 1984-01-01|title = A Brighter Future For Early Learning Through High Tech|journal = The Pointer|volume = 28|issue = 2|pages = 23–26|doi = 10.1080/05544246.1984.9943002|issn = 0554-4246}}</ref>

== Gameplay ==

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