In October 1985, Wausau, Wisconsin-based company Connor Forest Industries, Inc decided to branch out into the edutainment area of the videogame market. In order to facilitate this new arm of their business, they created the Connor Toy Corporation and Connor Electronics. Between the years 1986 and 1990, these two subsidiaries produced at least three different edutainment game consoles.
Connor Toy Company and Connor Electronics are believed to have collapsed somewhere between 1988 and 1990, with poor sales of the ComputerSmarts console considered the main culprit. A commercial has surfaced from 1990, revealing that Video Technology Inc (VTech) later distributed the VideoSmarts, but it is unclear what their relationship with Connor was at that point.
