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.
@BetterYouNow Жыл бұрын
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
@brianbommarito3376 Жыл бұрын
@@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?”
@FoxFriedRice11 ай бұрын
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.
@tjsase9 ай бұрын
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.
@Lettuce-fl4wt Жыл бұрын
"As with everything in 3rd grade, things quickly took a turn for the worse" your humour is on point!
@asmaourad98892 жыл бұрын
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
@supermariof05212 жыл бұрын
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.
@Mezcon2 Жыл бұрын
It could be something that prevents a lot of cool games from coming back = Licensing.
@supermariof0521 Жыл бұрын
@@Mezcon2 Isn't there a work around?
@X3nophiliac9 ай бұрын
Zoombini's! one of my favorite edutainment games has been put on Steam
@chromedino78858 ай бұрын
Too bad Knowledge Adventure got defunct last year
@SereneSpaceShip5 ай бұрын
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.
@JeremyJenner2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ella_cupcake5 ай бұрын
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
@thesidneychan Жыл бұрын
Pollt is probably most kid's earliest exposure to a tsundere.
@ZecoaTheDiesel3 жыл бұрын
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.
@BardicProductions Жыл бұрын
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.
@monicahoger Жыл бұрын
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...
@portagasdace21117 Жыл бұрын
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.
@rod3266 Жыл бұрын
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.
@retroradkat Жыл бұрын
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.
@lalehiandeity16492 жыл бұрын
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.
@monicahoger Жыл бұрын
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!
@nickguitarfreak17 Жыл бұрын
My first ever video game and i love it. Wish they made more educational games
@brianbommarito3376 Жыл бұрын
Still probably my favorite JumpStart game. Of course, I loved CJ and Edison in 2nd Grade as well. This series was particularly brilliant.
@blee19973 ай бұрын
when i was a kid i did level 1 difficulty, but now im doing level 3. BY FAR the BEST JumpStart game of ALL TIME
@joslyntheneutralbard1878Ай бұрын
Omg I used to love this game. So much nostalgia! Only reason I knew about different constellations lol That was probably the most obscure educational content that I didn’t learn anywhere else.
@SolarFarle Жыл бұрын
I like how throughout most of the review you called Botley that Polly rhymes his name with.
@supermike12321 Жыл бұрын
randomly stumbled upon ur channel and it is such a gold mine! this game was one of my all time favorites as a kid
@Mezcon2 Жыл бұрын
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.
@vj72488 ай бұрын
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.
@kcclubkirby Жыл бұрын
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.
@blee19973 ай бұрын
Gamification ALWAYS WINS
@a.t.m8738 ай бұрын
Botley is my favorite Jumpstart host.
@mr.goodboi2780 Жыл бұрын
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.
@crimsondynamo6158 ай бұрын
Honestly surprised Doctor Who never had an episode where the villain was a little girl like Polly.
@the-nina-beans88 Жыл бұрын
I remember beating this game . And professor Sparks voice was not what I expected when he comes in at the end. … After that the post game there’s. it much you can do
@pikminfan6778 Жыл бұрын
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.
@MadLad-qb7ci2 ай бұрын
This was my favorite Jumpstart game but somehow I lost it. I also enjoyed a different series of educational games that taught about electricity. Anyone remembers that one where the characters were yellow and were in some kind of band. The discs were generally green. 🤔
@princkleminckle115910 ай бұрын
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
@chloe-stephlis6281 Жыл бұрын
Wasn’t there a baseball version of this? Polly locked the coach in the trophy room? Remember playing it in school.
@Terestrasz Жыл бұрын
It was about typing.
@alex_squeezebox Жыл бұрын
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.
@SpasticTyping2 жыл бұрын
you might like the cluefinders games, theres like six of them i think
@Terestrasz2 жыл бұрын
Nine iirc - Ten if you include Mystery Mansion Arcade.
@gregthomson10649 ай бұрын
Botley is the goat!
@captainmatt-asmr Жыл бұрын
I truly love how you manage to include silly in the majority of your videos. 😆
@kryptonianpowers5 ай бұрын
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.
@garveyneal16723 жыл бұрын
Can you do looking backs on the other jumpstart games?
@kelsey1467 Жыл бұрын
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
@AnonybotSS Жыл бұрын
Still my most memorable jumpstart game
@Solongsocialmedia6 ай бұрын
So polly was the one who Junpstarted the anti Luci club?
@megansutton9699 Жыл бұрын
NGL Polly looks like if Johnny Test had a THIRD sister
@princessamanda12342 жыл бұрын
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
@misti-step Жыл бұрын
idk why but mystery mountain scared me so much 😂
@SpasticTyping3 жыл бұрын
I had this one too lol
@anthonyboccia5303 Жыл бұрын
can you do a vid on zoombinis?
@pizettab61232 жыл бұрын
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
@spyrodragonlover97 Жыл бұрын
do you have jumpstart advanced 1st grade?
@penguinmaster79 ай бұрын
"a robot named botley" actually his name is "Android XL2". Botley is his nickname. 🤓
@aflhabalafhabab Жыл бұрын
Kindergarten? The earliest? You completely forgot about Jumpstart Baby & Jumpstart Toddler.
@dustix1087 Жыл бұрын
How did I go from this to red dead and COD 😅
@HenchmenNo616 Жыл бұрын
Don't think we had this in Britain
@forgetfulstranger Жыл бұрын
You guys had DK games, those were great too haha
@nict4343 Жыл бұрын
Did anyone else's dad yell at them for printing out too many diplomas?