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Randy Hale created soundtracks for multiple JumpStart games in the 90s, including JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain, JumpStart Kindergarten (1997), JumpStart 1st Grade (1999), and JumpStart Reading for Second Graders, amongst others. He mainly composed background music for these games, though in multiple instances he composed vocal songs as well.
In JumpStart 3D Virtual World kindergarten, Kisha can sometimes enter an idle animation where, upon stopping, she seemingly freezes in a pose rather than returning to her normal state. Whether this is some kind of bug or not is unclear.
JumpStart 1st Grade (1995) mostly features a relatively simple cartoon art style. However, the Serving Up Fractions minigame features extremely realistic graphics for several foods, which appear to be actual photos. This is the only instance in the entire game where such realistic imagery is used.
The final mission in AdventureLand from the JumpStart MMO involved placing a statue that was stated to keep Punk-Punks calm (top). The 3D model of this statue actually originated in JumpStart 3D Virtual World: Quest for the Color Meister (middle), and its appearance is directly based on the titular character the Color Meister (bottom).
(Top screenshot is from gameplay footage by chantolove on YouTube)
Lawrence Marvit created some concept paintings for JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective. The paintings differ from the final game in some ways, such as depicting characters not seen in the game, which were perhaps stand-ins for the game's eventual protagonist. However, many aspects of the paintings influenced the game's art style, such as the use of highly contrasting colors and frequent slanted lines.
JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade contains a reading comprehension minigame in which the player must read a story and then make sentences summarizing it. One of the stories, Mr. Popularity, will occasionally present a set of words meant to create the sentence "Frankie is popular", but can optionally be used to create the sentence "Godzilla is popular", due to Godzilla being included in the word choices. (The game will not accept this as a correct answer.)
A small detail of Eleanor's 3D models from around the JumpStart 3D Virtual World series onwards is that she has faint freckles, which are usually not noticeable from a distance due to being colored similar to her skin, but are more visible from close up, as seen in the top two images here. They are not included in 2D artwork of Eleanor from this era, as seen in the bottom two images.
In the JumpStart MMO, player profiles had a "Favorites" section, where players could specify their favorite color, food, music, animal, movie type, and sport. For the favorite food category, several options were "not (something)". This set includes "not anchovies", "not cow tongue", "not fried Twinkies", "not frog legs", "not liver", "not sauerkraut", "not toe jam", and "not vegetables".
Hopsalot and CJ are somewhat unique in that they were portrayed as adults in earlier media, but were retconned to be kids later on. Hopsalot was originally called "Mr. Hopsalot" and was depicted as a schoolteacher in the 90s, and CJ was an uncle to several much younger nieces and nephews in the early 2000s. However, both of them ended up being aged down to be in the same age range as characters like Kisha and Pierre, starting in 2000 (for Hopsalot) and 2005 (for CJ).
In 2008, the official JumpStart Facebook account created an album titled "JumpStart3D Characters go Western!", which contains these renders of the 3D Virtual World series' main cast (minus Frankie) wearing "wild west" hats. These same models were used in the demo version of Ghost Town Grab, a minigame that was initially added to the main JumpStart website before becoming part of the JumpStart MMO. The demo featured the characters above as playable, whereas the MMO version used Jumpeez instead.
Kisha's kindergartner design in the JumpStart 3D Virtual World series, MMO, and related media has pigtails. However, these aren't visible in many 3D renders and 2D illustrations, due to being entirely obscured by her head. (This isn't as much the case with her first and second grade designs, due to her having longer pigtails that are less likely to be entirely obscured).
Pierre has been associated with music for much of the JumpStart series. This began with the Advanced series in 2002, and later carried over to the JumpStart 3D Virtual World series and the JumpStart MMO. Each of these eras also tended to depict Pierre with a particular instrument. In the Advanced series, his signature instrument was a drum, while in the 3D Virtual World series and MMO, his signature instrument was a flute.
Ivy the fairy debuted in the JumpStart 3D Virtual World series. When she was reintroduced in the JumpStart MMO, her appearance was slightly modified. Her dress was changed to be slightly more complex and have more gold trim, and the designs on her wings were changed. In her original appearance, she also had pale blue markings on her left leg and left side of her face, which were removed. She is the only character carried over from the 3D Virtual World series to the MMO to be redesigned, as every other character originating from the 3D Virtual World series (such as Cappy, Isabella, and ZuZu Petals) retained their original designs.
JumpStart 2nd Grade contains an unused image which is a closeup of the state of Idaho (top). Presumably, this was linked to a feature in the game where the player can recieve pen pal letters from different states in the US, during which a map of the country is shown (bottom). The prescence of the unused Idaho closeup seemingly indicates that closeups of each state were initally planned to show up in this part of the game. It isn't clear if the staff only got as far as creating one closeup for Idaho, or if the Idaho image is simply the only closeup that was kept in the game's files.
In JumpStart 1st Grade (1995), the Painting minigame allows the player to create scenes using backgrounds and stickers. The town scene comes with a set of stickers for various buildings, one of which says "Fanfare" on it (top). This is a reference to "Fanfare Software", the name of the studio that developed JumpStart Kindergarten (1994) and JumpStart 1st Grade (1995), which was acquired by Knowledge Adventure in 1995.
The JumpStart series has many instances of games being re-released. In some cases, the same game has been re-released under a completely different sounding title. The examples which are shown here include:
JumpStart Pre-K (1996) / JumpStart Preschool Year 2 Trucks N' Things (1998)
JumpStart Around the World (2000) / JumpStart Field Trip Adventure (2003)
JumpStart Reading with Karaoke (2005) / JumpStart Phonics Read & Rhyme
JumpStart World Kindergarten (2007) / JumpStart 3D Virtual World: The Legend of Grizzly McGuffin (2008)
From around 1999-2001, JumpStart had a group of characters which consisted of the mascots of four games: Botley from JumpStart 3rd Grade, TJ Adams and Sally Chu from JumpStart 4th Grade: Sapphire Falls, Jo Hammet from JumpStart 5th Grade, and Zack and Jess from JumpStart 6th Grade. Although these characters originated from games with completely seperate storylines, they would cross over in JumpStart Adventure Challenge in 2000, and then once more in the JumpStart Spy Masters series in 2001. These characters were all completely dropped from the JumpStart series after this, except for Botley.