Reviewed by Yuri Storchak
Educational game. This newest game includes four different parts. The first disc, named Fundamentals, gives you the opportunity to travel back in time and build math, history and science skills as you solve puzzles. The second, Far-Out Field Trips- helps you to use history, science and art skills to earn point in the action packed adventure game. The third Mystery Club Vol. 2 provides you to use gadgets to investigate crime scenes, unravel mysteries and crack cases. The fourth called Language Arts Challenge tests your knowledge of history and language arts in this mind-bending quiz game. The game is very unpredictable and consists of variety of activities, goal-oriented story lines, and large content.As the title suggests, the game is intended to teach a third grade curriculum. Set in a retro-futuristic universe, the game concerns Polly Spark, the bratty daughter of an apparently very wealthy inventor, and her attempt to alter history so that her inane answers to a history quiz she failed will be correct. Ages 7-9There's No Stopping a Kid with a JumpStart!Use your 3rd Grade problem-solving skills to outsmart the mischievous Polly! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning as you solve puzzles, unlock secret codes, and thwart Polly's time-meddling plan. Master skills in Math, Science, Reading, History, and mo.
JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade (Mac abandonware from 1996). JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain is a video game released in 1996 by Knowledge Adventure. Sound Effects Used. This game mainly uses Hanna-Barbera (heavily) and Premiere Edition Volume 1 sound effects, alongside minor selections from Edge Edition Volume 1, Series 6000, Series 4000, and the Foley Sound Library.
Can you imagine test of your knowledge in the form of game? No, because it is very important and difficult thing! If you really think in such way, you are not right. This package presents the great example of playing, studying and testing learned things. The greatest feature of the game is its educational value. On different levels children can study Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, Art and Music and Science. Each of these issues includes a few other inside. Besides a nice variety of academic subjects, this set of programs features plenty of opportunities to exercise problem-solving and deductive reasoning skills. Although academic topics are not covered in an intensive manner, the programs bring together plenty of useful content and offer educational value through play. Excellent design offers adaptive learning technology that keeps children at a comfortable level of challenge, and players can adjust levels manually as well. All in during exciting entertainment you can learn over 50 skills.
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The current (2007) cover of JumpStart Advanced 3rd Grade | |
| Developer(s) | Knowledge Adventure |
| Publisher(s) | Knowledge Adventure |
| Producer(s) | David Fratto |
| Designer(s) | David Fratto Bernadette Gonzalez Barton Listick Rob Wrubel |
| Programmer(s) | Miguel Canales |
| Artist(s) | Bonnie Williams |
| Writer(s) | Doria Briddle Robert Nashak David Fratto |
| Composer(s) | HaleSong Music Productions Randy Hale |
| Series | JumpStart |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Macintosh |
| Release | December 2, 1996 |
| Genre(s) | Educational/adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain is a personal computer game in Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart series of educational software. As the title suggests, the game is intended to teach a third grade curriculum. This is the only version of this game created and, unusually for Knowledge Adventure, was still being sold over fifteen years after its initial release in 1996. In 2003, it was included as the 'Fundamentals' disc of JumpStart Advanced 3rd Grade.
Plot[edit]
Set in a retro-futuristicuniverse, the game concerns Polly Spark, the bratty daughter of an apparently very wealthy inventor, and her attempt to alter history so that her inane answers to a history quiz she failed will be correct. To do this, she sends twenty-five reprogrammed robotsback in time and, with her father conveniently away on a business trip, she takes over Mystery Mountain, the literal 'mountain mansion' where she and her father live. The goal of the game is to help Botley, the robot assigned to keep Polly under control, save the world by retrieving each of the twenty-five robots and bringing them back to the present.
Gameplay[edit]
Each of the game's twenty-five missions (one for each robot that must be rescued) begin with the user selecting one of Polly's questions from the TransQuizzer. On the TransQuizzer, Polly's teacher Ms. Winkle poses a historical question, and Polly gives a surreally humorous answer. Polly then appears on a monitor to state which robot she has sent back in time for the question and to list the four Mission Clues that need to be found for the mission.
Botley, using his powerful sensory device, then determines which games need to be played in order to retrieve the needed Mission Clues. Once all the Mission Clues have been collected, the user will still need to collect an increasing amount of Invention Points in order to be allowed to enter the Time Machine Mission Control. The amount of Invention Points required to enter the Time Machine gradually increases over time.
Once inside the Time Machine Mission Control, the user has to get past the Wheel of Invention in order to acquire a Time Key and enter the Time Machine itself, though Polly has apparently reprogrammed the Wheel so it's not just a quiz, but rather a quiz show called 'Pollywood Squares.' Here, Monty Monitor quizzes the user with questions that provide the point in time where Polly has sent the missing robot and which eventually reveal the correct answer to Polly's original test question.
After this activity is completed, the user enters the Time Machine and travels back in time to retrieve the robot and bring it back to the present, where the rescued robots are deposited in an area called the 'robot roost.' After the robot has been rescued, the user begins a new mission by selecting another question from the TransQuizzer. The game continues in this manner until all twenty-five robots are returned to the present.
Cast and characters[edit]
- Jeannie Elias as Botley the Robot, Polly Spark, and Ms. Winkle
- Tony Pope as Professor Spark, Mort, Bothoven, Maestro Trombot, Egbert, Monty Monitor, Biosphere Probe, and Observatory Narrator #1
- Patricia Lentz as Mrs. Beasley and Observatory Narrator #2
- Lathan Crowe as Frankie
- Buster
Activities[edit]
- The Front Door
The First Floor[edit]
- The Kitchen
- The Art Gallery
- The Professor's Virtual Collection
- The Painting Gallery
- The Music Hall (A.K.A. Concert Hall)
- The Jumbo Electro Generator Room
The Second Floor[edit]
- The Biosphere
- The Shrinking Machine Room (A.K.A. Shrink-O-Matic)
The Third Floor[edit]
- The Observatory
- The Robot Maze (A.K.A. Robot Obstacle Course)
The Time Machine Room[edit]
- The Wheel of Invention (A.K.A. Pollywood Squares)
- Professor Sparks's Time Machine
- The Robot Roost
Reception[edit]
References[edit]
Jumpstart 3rd Grade Online
External links[edit]
| Wikiquote has quotations related to: JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain |
- Review from Epinions which includes summaries of the game's activities
- JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain at MobyGames