The trait's most recent appearance was in JumpStart Artist, when C.J. In a few earlier games (most prominently in JumpStart 2nd Grade Math/ JumpStart Math for Second Graders), C.J.have also gone through the same kind of character evolution.
Then, he started wearing a shirt without a vest. In later games of the "classic era", he wore a vest without a shirt. In the 1995 version of JumpStart 1st Grade, his debut, all he wore was a collar. To accompany those changes, Frankie gradually wore more and more clothes. He gradually became more humanlike in behavior and circumstances, and in the JumpStart MMOG there is barely anything doggish about him. JumpStart Numbers, JumpStart Math for First Graders/ JumpStart 1st Grade Math) depicted him living in a doghouse in an unknown person's backyard. Frankie the dog was always anthropomorphic, but he originally had many doglike traits, such as passions for digging holes and playing with chew toys.One particularly egregious example is in JumpStart Spy Masters: Unmask the Prankster, where you shoot blobs of mustard into blenders from a distance (you don't actually make anything - you just put mustard into blenders) to solve math problems so that you can get.an ice weapon for your blaster. Alphabet Soup Cans: Like most Edutainment Game series, it would hardly be able to exist without it.Too bad Kisha was retconned into a tiger in 2005, ruining the Added Alliterative Appeal! Alliterative Name: The characters from JumpStart Preschool (and JumpStart Pre-K) were Casey Cat, Eleanor Elephant, Kisha Koala, and Pierre Polar Bear.Strangely, though, in JumpStart Spy Masters, Jess' hair is black - which is a bit odd, seeing as another character featured in that game (Sally from the 2000 version of JumpStart 4th Grade) also has black hair. This may be because her later appearances are often alongside Jo of JumpStart 5th Grade and Knowledge Adventure probably thought one redheaded girl was enough. Adaptation Dye-Job: Jess has red hair in JumpStart 6th Grade, but it's more brown in subsequent products.Neopets note Absorbed into canon March 2014.JumpStart Adventures 6th Grade: Mission Earthquest.
#JUMPSTART KINDERGARTEN SERIES#
(There have been changes in character design other than these major reboots, also.)Įven though the series is still going strong, this article will probably focus more on the JumpStart games released in The '90s since that's when we played them. A continuity featuring these characters is still in use today, but around 2005, it got a big reboot that changed the characters considerably, to the point that some became unrecognizable. Circa 2000, a Continuity Reboot fused the Preschool - 2nd Grade continuities into one new universe in which the various characters interacted together and had (sometimes vastly) different designs. JumpStart Typing used the JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain cast, JumpStart Reading for Second Graders used the JumpStart 2nd Grade cast, etc). The subject-based games, however, each reused a cast of characters (i.e.
#JUMPSTART KINDERGARTEN PC#
Originally, it consisted of PC CD-ROM games based on grade (or age level, since "baby" and "toddlers" aren't exactly grades), with some spin-off games based on subject.Īt first, each grade level had entirely different characters and settings from other grade levels. It made its debut in 1994 with the original JumpStart Kindergarten. JumpStart is an Edutainment Game series created by JumpStart Games (formerly named Knowledge Adventure, Inc.) for kids up to sixth grade.
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