LOOKING BACK: Jumpstart 3rd Grade Mystery Mountain
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- On this episode of Looking Back, we look at one of my all-time favorite educational video games, Jumpstart 3rd Grade. Is it still a super fun adventure all these years later?
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The first time I got put in the painting gallery, I didn't realise you had to use the clip art. So I drew a stick figure of a boy playing with his car. Polly kept asking where the boy was. I circled it, made arrows pointing to it, even wrote "LOOK HERE MORON" before I realised what it was supposed to be. So I laughed at how ridiculous it looked.
I remember doing this too now that you mention it, getting stuck in the painting gallery and frustrated, don't remember the exacts just getting stuck there and mad haha thanks for the flashback
@@BetterYouNowyep, me too. They weren’t very clear about that. Of all the times Polly is being a snot-head, that was probably the worst. I think the one I got stuck on was the space one. She kept asking where the flying saucer was, or a rocket, or something like that. I kept drawing one and she kept saying “where is it?”
"As with everything in 3rd grade, things quickly took a turn for the worse" your humour is on point!
I remember having to play this in 3rd grade. It was so fun I was the only kid in my class to finish this. There was also one with a frog in a medieval setting. Loved these games when I was younger.
What a greatest explain for this game
I think Botley is the most memorable character at jumpstart
Also when I was a child the best part of this game is an electric generator because of glowing rings and the sound effects, especially when you finish each ring
I dunno if the "Jumpstart" series has been ported to Steam, but if they haven't, they REALLY need to. That or make a collection of these titles for consoles.
It could be something that prevents a lot of cool games from coming back = Licensing.
@@Mezcon2 Isn't there a work around?
Zoombini's! one of my favorite edutainment games has been put on Steam
Too bad Knowledge Adventure got defunct last year
Google “Zoom Game Store”. The store is called Zoom-Platform and it’s a lesser known digital game store like GOG, but it has a lot of edutainment games. I feel like I have seen JumpStart games in there. As an aside, it also has all Duke Nukem games which GOG lost the license too.
Excellent review! 3rd Grade isn’t just my favourite JumpStart game, but one of my favourite childhood games period. It still amazes me that a collection of fairly simple mini-games could create such an imaginative and entertaining game-world (that’s also educational). Thanks for putting all my 8-year-old thoughts into words.
Pollt is probably most kid's earliest exposure to a tsundere.
I love this game, especially the bizarre, whimsical, retro-futuristic architecture and design of everything. The music is incredibly composed, I need to find a good method of playing the game with high-quality MIDI tracks.
Man, the Jumpstart series were my shit, I had the classic, the advance series, and the 3D virtual world series. It was either this or the Reader Rabbit series I would play the most in terms of education games.
The intro was one of the best parts of this game that I always found funny but now with recent context it becomes even funnier think about it, “An Orangutan has just been elected the President of The United States IN A LANDSLIDE!!!”
I’ll let you put 2 and 2 together.
OMG YES! I have SO MANY THOUGHTS & THEORIES about this game, including that one! Also, what happened to Polly's mother?! I am convinced they either divorced or Polly made her ....permanently disappear...
It took me FOREVER with the biosphere to figure out that you had to keep the UP arrow pressed at all times to keep the robot flying PLUS whatever arrow keys to move around! After that, my sister and I would tag-team the game and I'd always play the biosphere so we could finally beat the game. Good times!
My first ever video game and i love it. Wish they made more educational games
You definitely deserve more subscribers. 😊
Man, Jumpstart 3rd Grade was my favorite educational anything back then. I’ve been on a nostalgia binge as of late and this video helped satisfy me. Thank you.
Botley is my favorite Jumpstart host.
I used to play this one a LOT but I don't think I ever actually beat this game. I spent a lot of time in the painting game and being creeped out by the skeleton upstairs.
I've been binging your videos and something that I really like about them is that it feels like I'm listening to someone who really cares and connects with the things that they're talking about, and essentially that's what it is. It's the type of video that I'd like to make myself someday, good job.
this really be a classic 90s kid game.
it really is wild just how many minigames there is in this game, and how long it is. i never finished it, but damn is it a forever memory. all this effort and charm put into this game.... it is a shame that kids basically are stuck playing ios mtx ridden scams instead of something like this.
tho, when i think of a modern 'adult' equivalent of this game.... BBS Last Call by Zachtronic really be apt.
10:20 I’m aware this probably wasn’t intentional given the time this was made, but this actually sounds like the type of very basic coding lessons elementary school kids are often taught today. I think it’s neat that a probably random puzzle can actually teach a more specific skill all these years later
I like how throughout most of the review you called Botley that Polly rhymes his name with.
Honestly surprised Doctor Who never had an episode where the villain was a little girl like Polly.
I grew up with Jumpstart 2nd and 3rd grade, and I remember being totally hooked on 3rd grade! I feel like our education system should take advantage of the unique way video games teach us and actually use video games like these in curriculum as supplementary material or for homework.
randomly stumbled upon ur channel and it is such a gold mine! this game was one of my all time favorites as a kid
Honestly @5:44 is the reason why I never beat Jump Start 3rd grade. Never knew how to do this. Welp too little too late. At least now I know.
I never owned this game personally, but I remember renting it a lot from my local library that had a collection of CD adventure games to choose from. I never completed the game sadly, but gosh seeing the footage gave me huge nostalgia of my childhood.
Still probably my favorite JumpStart game. Of course, I loved CJ and Edison in 2nd Grade as well. This series was particularly brilliant.
I will say that I have slept on this game ever since when I was a kid, I didn't play it because this was for 3rd graders 😭 I always stick with playing the preschool and 1st grade ones
It was nowadays I finally got around playing it (now that I'm almost in college and playing old edutainment games is theraphutic to me) and damn I missed a lot of this game
I remember beating this game . And professor Sparks voice was not what I expected when he comes in at the end.
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After that the post game there’s. it much you can do
Botley is the goat!
I've never played this one before but it looks really fun. I love the aesthetic of these games with the 2D/3D mix. I had one of the JumpStart games but I'm pretty sure it was the Kindergarten or First Grade one and I remember finding it too simple to enjoy. I ended up just going back to SpongeBob 😂. I would've LOVED this one though. It's a shame I never had it.
Polly is pretty much an amalgamation of Dexter, DeeDee, and Angelica Pickles, except she's more of a spoiled know-it-all version of DeeDee.
you might like the cluefinders games, theres like six of them i think
Nine iirc - Ten if you include Mystery Mansion Arcade.
I didn't play this before, but I'm interested in the game's story. And I think Polly looks a lot like Penny Plutonium, one of the background characters from Mucha Lucha, just without the luchador aesthetic.
Damn I just found this channel and it's covered so many of my first PC games as a kid in elementary school, including specifically this game and Spongebob Squarepants: Operation Krabby Patty.
I truly love how you manage to include silly in the majority of your videos. 😆
Wasn’t there a baseball version of this? Polly locked the coach in the trophy room? Remember playing it in school.
It was about typing.
Great game but with all the science fiction aspects, time travel, conscious robots, etc, I think the most unrealistic part is that Polly never called Botley Buttley.
NGL Polly looks like if Johnny Test had a THIRD sister
"a robot named botley"
actually his name is "Android XL2". Botley is his nickname. 🤓
Kindergarten? The earliest? You completely forgot about Jumpstart Baby & Jumpstart Toddler.
Still my most memorable jumpstart game
I had this one too lol
Can you do looking backs on the other jumpstart games?
So polly was the one who Junpstarted the anti Luci club?
idk why but mystery mountain scared me so much 😂
The only jumpstart games I played were 1st grade/2end grade/3rd Grade/4th grade fifth grade and jumpstart typing and out of all the games 3rd grade was my favourite
you know for jumpstart i found the atsmophere in the game kind of dark your stuck in a moutain pretty much alone with the exception of a few other robots and i like that some kids like dark atmosphere what do you think
can you do a vid on zoombinis?
do you have jumpstart advanced 1st grade?
Did anyone else's dad yell at them for printing out too many diplomas?
Don't think we had this in Britain
You guys had DK games, those were great too haha
i had this game in spanish, but it always would freeze on a certain level and i could never finish the game, just do the first robot but i did that quadrillion times, i didnt remember this game till today lol i should get my hands on it
How did I go from this to red dead and COD 😅
botly? bruh.. thats roibot!
Polly Is A Spoiled Bratty Little Girl