JumpStart

JumpStart is a franchise of educational games developed by JumpStart Games (formerly Knowledge Adventure) for pre-school and elementary school children.

Why It Used to Rock

 * 1) Many great activities and games that help children learn different things.
 * 2) Memorable characters, such as Frankie the Dog, Casey Cat, Hopsalot, Pierre the Polar Bear, and Eleanor the Elephant.
 * 3) Many of the JumpStart Adventures games have great and well written storylines, such as JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet: Kid Detective, and JumpStart Adventures 6th Grade: Mission Earthquest.
 * 4) Fun songs such as "Who Left the Juice in the Caboose?" and the Train Adventures songs in the 1999 edition of JumpStart Preschool.
 * 5) Great villains such as the self-aware computer ART, a spoof of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Polly Sparks, a mischievous girl who travels in time to change history so her test answers will be correct.
 * 6) The SpyMasters sub-series, which brings every character from JumpStart Adventures together and with great story and levels.
 * 7) Later games such as the 3D Virtual World sub-series let children create their own avatars and explore different worlds, and play educational levels and games.
 * 8) The franchise is most-known for World of JumpStart, a massive multiplayer online game with many different zones to explore.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) There are some terrible games such as JumpStart Adventure Challenge, which is sports-themed and has no sort of education.
 * 2) In one part of the opening song of JumpStart ABC's, Kisha twerks at the camera, which may be gross for children.
 * 3) JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island, can be scary for some and probably was a factor in its discontinuation.

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