![]() After nearly a decade and a half however, the aforementioned MMO was set to shut down on June 30, 2023, and Neopets will be transferred over to Fluffy Dog Studios after the MMO's closure.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. (Sometimes, ads for it appear on this very page!) They bought Neopets from Viacom in 2014 (although the PS2 and PSP versions of Neopets are still available online on the official PlayStation webpage through Sony Computer Entertainment, the publishers of rain (2013), Lair, Warhawk and their PSP adaption of Cars 2). Ever since 2009, they have focused almost solely on a massively multiplayer online game located at that was released in that year. JumpStart has branched out considerably over the years, spinning off into a series of workbooks, a couple of "Readers" kiddie books, a handful of games for other consoles, a handful of VHS tapes and DVDs, and apps for mobile devices. ![]() (There have been changes in character design other than these major reboots, also.)Ī canon featuring characters from the 3rd - 6th Grade games has been used occasionally for example, in the JumpStart Spy Masters games ( Unmask the Prankster and Max Strikes Back) and the bonus CD JumpStart Adventure Challenge. 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. 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. The below logo won't be familiar to older tropers. ![]()
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