Description of JumpStart Adventures: 3rd Grade - Mystery Mountain Released in 1996 on Windows, it's still available and playable with some tinkering. It's an adventure and educational game, set in an ecology / nature, geography, graphics / art, history, math / logic, music, reading / writing, sci-fi / futuristic, science and puzzle elements. JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain is a JumpStart game that was made by Knowledge Adventure in 1996. As the title suggests, the game is intended to teach a third grade curriculum. The original 1996 release of the game came with KnowledgeLand as a bonus disc. In 2000, it was released with JumpStart Adventure Challenge as a bonus disc. Well, it's finally done. Cara membuat antena sectoral 2 4 ghz. And I barely even feel accomplished for having finished this stupid game. Here we are with the final part which everyone has been whining and begging for me to do for the.
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Developer: Knowledge Adventure This game has unused graphics. |
Currently the oldest game in the JumpStart franchise that is still being sold, JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain is a rather interesting entry in the series. Bratty half-pint Polly Spark flunks a quiz after trying to get her teacher to laugh instead of doing it properly, and when she is appalled that she gets the exact grade she deserves as a result, she decides to take advantage of the secret mountain she lives in with her father, Professor Spark, and sends his numerous robots back in time to change the course of history and make her quiz answers correct. The robot who was programmed to watch after her, Botley, is none too pleased and asks the player to help out.
Driver toolkit 8.3-5 license key. Often a contender for the best JumpStart game for its bizarre plot, memorable characters, and being a rare instance of an edutainment game that manages to be fun enough to keep you playing. Let's just say there's a very good reason Knowledge Adventure has gone to great lengths to keep this game alive for so long.
| To do: Figure out how to open the files and see if any unused content remains of them. |
- 1Unused Graphics
- 2Unused Music
- 3Revisional Differences
- 3.1v1.1
- 3.1.1Dialogue
- 3.1v1.1
Unused Graphics
Mystery Mountain
An unused background of the exterior of Mystery Mountain appears in the game's files. It depicts a different design for the mountain from what is seen in-game.
Basement Landing
This graphic is located in the file BL001.RSC. While its intended purpose isn't clear, a similarly named file called BL001.BAL contains voice clips for the biosphere mini-game, possibly indicating a correlation.
Unused Music
General
This file, GE.mid, is never heard in-game despite being installed with the rest of the music. It was meant to be heard in the generator room, but in the finished game no music plays there at all. This was corrected in v1.2.
Music Hall
The MODULE.INI file details all the possible puzzles that can be found in each of the games. In the music hall section, three entries are skipped over - #6, #13, and #16. The first two still have their staves left over in the game, but no associated music files to actually hear them. Even though the last one has the timing data written in the INI file, it is missing its staves, so attempting to add it back into the game crashes it.
This one, #6, is the Bridal Chorus. Note that the music heard in this video is only a recreation and not actually in the game.
The other one, #13, is Mendelssohn's Wedding March. Again, the music in the video is only an interpretation.
Revisional Differences
| To do: Figure out how to get proper audio rips and check for more differences, especially with v1.2 onward. Also, there's probably more removed dialogue, but I've only checked the intro so far. |
Six known versions of this game exist: v1.0, v1.1, v1.2, v1.4, and v1.5. Additionally, the later updated 'Advanced' package oddly labels the game version as '1.1c', even though it came after v1.5.
v1.1
This version came out around 1998 and made a fair amount of changes, mostly affecting the length of the game.
Dialogue
The most noteworthy difference is the altering of the opening. The opening in v1.0 was insanely long and had a fair amount of information needlessly repeated and almost-nonexistent user interaction. Naturally, Knowledge Adventure got a lot of complaints about this, and edited it down in all subsequent versions. Below is a list of all the removed dialogue.
Classroom
| Line | Character | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Now where could it be? | Botley | Spoken just as Botley starts to look around after initially getting up from under the desk. |
| But wait!.. Nah.. Well, it's worth a try.. | Some random pondering that obviously didn't add too much. | |
| The professor created me as a prototype companion device. You see, he was having such trouble finding sitters for Polly, 'cause she scares them all away, so he invented me. I'm also programmed to be her friend, and believe me, it's tougher than it sounds. | Some extra backstory information that the developers must have seen unworthy enough to keep. Funnily enough, despite the fact that the next line ('I'm not getting to the point, am I?') pokes fun at this tangent, they still kept it in later releases! |
Front Door
| Line | Character | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Phew! Sorry about the landing. I wasn't programmed to fly. | Botley | Spoken after Botley crash lands to the front door. Probably cut for being redundant (he says nearly the exact same thing as his first line of dialogue in the game). |
| Umm.. As I was saying.. This is the professor's mountain. Polly should be inside, and I just bet she's watching us now. | Spoken after Botley's rocket detaches. Later releases cut straight to Polly watching from inside the mountain. Funnily enough, even though all the dialogue was cut, his gestures connected with them were still left intact, so he briefly raises his arm to introduce the mountain quite awkwardly. | |
| Oh, that was the easy part, since daddy just invented that handy-dandy time machine upstairs. Everyone should have one! I just marched those robots into the machine, pushed a few buttons, and voila! Unfortunately, there's still one more question, the extra credit question, and it's super hard. That's why I've been looking for you, Knotley. | Polly | A fair amount of arguing that was cut. They went a little overboard here, though, because the mentioning of the extra credit question sets up the ending of the game. This leads to a big plothole at the end where she demands that Botley still has to do the extra credit question, and it comes out of thin air as a result. |
| That's Botley! And I want nothing to do with your plan, Polly. Just bring those robots back! Don't you see? You could destroy us all! | Botley | |
| (mimicking) 'You could destroy us all!' | Polly | |
| But I'm warning you, if I don't get them all back soon, I'm sending you off to do the extra credit question. | Polly | Apparently setting things up is overrated. Pulling plot points out of thin air is the much better way to go, clearly. |
| On second thought, maybe it's safer with you. | Botley | Spoken while Botley's about to grab the utility belt. |
Mountain Entry
| Line | Character | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| I s'pose I should give you a two-cent tour of the place. | Botley | A line removed for not being very important. Thank goodness, those kids probably would have hated waiting another whole two seconds. |
| See? Everyone's impressed by the professor. | Another unnecessary line. | |
| Polly, you know I've been programmed to clean up your messes, and that includes bringing back my robot pals. I know you won't tell me where they are, but how about a little hint? | Yet another unnecessary line. | |
| You and your friend will have to find and collect them all. And even if you can find them all, which I highly doubt you can, you will still have to go to daddy's time machine and figure out where I sent the robot, if you expect to beat me. Oh, by the way, you know how daddy feels about amateurs going into the time machine room. It's a very sensitive piece of equipment, you know, so before a hunk of rusty bolts like you can get inside, you'll have to earn a bunch of invention points. A thousand of them should just about do it for starters. | Polly | A chunk of needless exposition that doesn't really tell you anything you need to know. If you don't know what the invention points are for anyway, you'll be told if you attempt to enter the time machine without enough. |
| Finding the clues should be a little less hopeless with my powerful sensoring device. Professor Spark cooked me up this way so I could better keep an eye on Polly. I can monitor every nook and cranny of the mountain. | Botley | An introduction to how Botley scans the area for mission clues. Obviously removed since the player can already figure it out for themselves. |
Other Changes
- The amount of invention points required used to gradually increase as more robots were rescued, starting at 1,000 and going up by 500 with every five robots (so the second batch would be 1,500, the third 2,000, and so on). This version locks the needed number at 1,000 through the whole game, greatly reducing the length.
- In v1.0, when completing the painting gallery, Botley would congratulate you and instruct you to pick up the clue before it appeared. In this version, the clue appears first, then Botley starts to talk.
- In v1.0, when moving onto the second ring of the generator, it would make the pumping noise even before you placed any batteries. This version alters it so it's silent until you place a battery.
- The fanfare heard when completing the robot maze was replaced with applause.
- The sound heard when rotating a piece in the virtual collection was altered.
- The sound heard when destroying a ball in the shrinking room was altered.
- The sound heard when a question disappears in the wheel of invention was removed.
v1.2
| To do: Pictures, videos, sound files, oh my! |
In addition to the above changes, v1.2 has a few more: Serial number proshow gold.
- The opening logo was updated to the then-current one of the company slogan sliding in from the right, and the figure climbing the stairs to reach the star.
- FD.mid, ironically enough, no longer plays at the front door. This seems to be the result of a programming error, though: you can briefly hear it start up before it stops, leading to a completely music-less opening. It is still played in the other areas of the game it originally played in, though, including the classroom and the time machine.
- GE.mid now correctly plays in the generator room, and one more digitized piece was added there on top of that.
The JumpStart series | |
|---|---|
| Windows | Baby (1998) • Preschool (1999) • Kindergarten (1994) • Kindergarten (1998) • 1st Grade (1995) • Math for First Graders • 2nd Grade • Advanced 2nd Grade • Math for Second Graders • Reading for Second Graders • 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain • 4th Grade: Haunted Island • 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective • 6th Grade: Mission EarthQuest • Spanish • Spelling • Music • Numbers • ABC's • Learning Games Phonics • Toddlers (2000) • Artist • Explorers • Animal Adventures |
| Mac OS Classic | Preschool (1999) • 1st Grade (1995) • 2nd Grade • Advanced 2nd Grade • Reading for Second Graders • 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain • 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective • 6th Grade: Mission EarthQuest • Artist • Advanced School Time Fundamentals |
| Mac OS X | Advanced 2nd Grade • Advanced School Time Fundamentals |
| JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain | |
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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 on December 2, 1996. On June 6, 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.
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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 Spark's Time Machine
- The Robot Roost
Reception[edit]
Jumpstart 3rd Grade Mystery Mountain Play Online
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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Knowledge Adventure
- Review from Epinions which includes summaries of the game's activities
- JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain at MobyGames