History VideoGame / JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain

* DeadpanSnarker: Botley has his moments. Eggbert admits a couple times that he [[DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm has difficulty recognizing humor]], so many of his deadpan remarks are actually sincere.

* HardTruthAesop: As the backstory details, there is a time and place for jokes and fun; exams are not a place for them. Yes, Ms. Winkle loves Polly along with her creativity and genius, but she still gives Polly a 0 for having silly, but incorrect, answers. Sure it's not a nice thing, but it was necessary. Polly, being Polly, decided the solution was to change the timeline so all the answers would be correct.
* [[HaveIMentionedIAmADwarfToday Have I Mentioned I Am A Robot Today]]: The android cast won't let you [[ForgotHeWasARobot forget they're robots]], even with the exaggerated EatingMachine trope in effect.

* ICanExplain: Polly pulls one of these when [[spoiler:Professor Spark walks in on her at the end of the game. However, unlike most examples of this trope, it actually ''is'' what it looks like and Polly's excuse is a [[BlatantLies Blatant Lie]].]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Polly had this happen to her in the backstory, to her shock. She explains that she was taking a big history test, where she knew all the answers. Ms. Winkle knew that Polly would ace the test if we believe Polly. Polly, because she was bored, made up joke answers to make the teacher laugh, including the extra credit question. Even though Ms. Winkle ''does'' find some of them funny, she had to mark the entire exam as incorrect and give Polly a "big fat" 0. Sure you can be funny on your exams, but don't forget you're working for a grade and the teacher has to do his or her job. [[spoiler:While Professor Sparks and Ms. Winkle agree to retest Polly, they make sure it challenges her this time -- with all the questions and answers being in Latin, a subject she hates]].

* OhCrap: Polly when [[spoiler:her plot for an alternate history is thwarted]].

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Basically the entire plot is to retrieve all 25 robots stuk in time reprogrammed so that history aligns with all of Polly's answers.

* BigDamnHeroes: Justified. Professor Spark was trying to get home earlier, but due to Polly changing the timeline, she inadvertently impeded his journey. Once the player and Bottley fix things, he returns home in a matter of seconds to save Bottley and chide his daughter for trying to kill her robot babysitter.

* HeroicWillpower: Bottley in the end refuses to [[spoiler:obey Polly's order to jump in the time machine and commit suicide by going to the Big Bang. It's partly LovableCoward and self-preservation, since he points out that a robot going to the Big Bang would be spelling their death. Nevertheless, it is awesome that Bottley is the ''only'' robot that refused to obey her orders. He then stands his ground as Polly reminds him that Botley is programmed to do everything she says. Fortunately, Professor Spark walks in and saves him from his death]].

** Professor Spark programmed the robots so that they can't technically do the main puzzles -- aiming the laser blasters at asteroids and such -- or uses simple Simon and arithmetic questions to keep the doors locked to the kitchen and music room. But if another human were to navigate the puzzles, using Bottley for assistance, then they can give Bottley the access he needs.
** Bottley explains in the beginning that technically he's not supposed to be telling outsiders about Professor Spark's secret. Professor Spark, however, gave him an override in the case that Polly would go off-the-rails so he could get help from anyone in her school. Bottley uses this to explain to the player, ostensibly a new student to the school, that he needs their assistance.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Professor Spark is this, compared to his daughter, and he's a calming influence on her. [[spoiler:He figured out that she rewrote the timeline but couldn't get back home to fix things due to the changes she made, like transportation on pogo sticks. When Bottley and the player fix the timeline, he makes it home in record time and nullifies Polly's orders to Bottley to travel back to the Big Bang. Professor Spark gives her a moment to explain herself; when she lies, Professor Spark reveals that he already contacted her teacher and found out the whole story. Ms. Winkle and he agreed that a fair punishment to Polly would be she could retake her test, but since she failed the first one out of boredom, this one will be in Latin to challenge her. Polly goes AnythingButThat while Professor Spark commends Bottley for finding a loophole to recruit the player]].

* DubNameChange: In the Swedish version, Botley and Polly Spark are known as "Roybot" and "Klara Blixt" respectively. "Blixt" is the Swedish word for lightning and a real Swedish last name, so it's actually a very appropriate translation of "spark."

There are twenty-five robots Polly has sent back in time, one for each question on her botched history quiz. For each robot, you have to complete a FetchQuest, collecting {{Plot Coupon}}s from the various science-fiction-themed {{Mini Game}}s inside Mystery Mountain. Once you have all four items and enough points, you're permitted to enter the time machine room. There, you're given a quiz which links the items, in a six degrees sort of way, to the place in history where the robot was sent. You then bring that robot back to the present and begin work on the next one, until all of them have been rescued. You can see a {{Walkthrough}} starting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7CN7eXV4k here]].

The game was released as ''Flygande Start 3:e Klass'' ("Flying Start 3rd Class") in Sweden, as ''Alkupolku Kolmas Luokka - Vaarojen Vuori'' ("Starting Path Third Class - Mountain of Dangers") in Finland, as ''Lek & Lær Tredje Klasse: Det mystiske fjellet'' ("Play & Learn Third Class: The Mysterious Mountain") in Norway, and as ''Trampolin Educacion Primaria Quinto Curso: La Montaña Misteriosa'' ("Trampoline Primary Education Fifth Year: The Mysterious Mountain") in Spain. However, unlike earlier ''[=JumpStart=]'' games, it was never released in the United Kingdom as a ''Jump Ahead'' title.

--> '''Polly''': I felt faint and short of breath! No one has ever given me a zero before!
--> '''Botley''': Well, that's not quite true, Polly. I remember just two weeks ago...
--> '''Polly''': Be quiet, [[MaliciousMisnaming Plotley]], this is ''my'' story!

* OnlySaneMan: Botley.

** The "television" mission clue appears to be displaying the final scene from ''{{Film/Casablanca}}''.

* SpillStainSabotage: What Polly declares happened to Leonardo da Vinci so he could not build the helicopter he designed; she says someone spilled spaghetti sauce all over it.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Polly had this happen to her in the backstory, to her shock. She explains that she was taking a big history test, where she knew all the answers. Ms. Winkle knew that Polly would ace the test if we believe Polly. Polly, because she was bored, made up joke answers to make the teacher laugh, including the extra credit question. Even though Ms. Winkle does find some of them funny, she had to mark the entire exam as incorrect and give Polly a "big fat" 0. Sure you can be funny on your exams, but don't forget you're working for a grade and the teacher has to do his or her job. [[spoiler:While Professor Sparks and Ms. Winkle agree to retest Polly, they make sure it challenges her this time-- with all the questions and answers being in Latin, a subject she hates]].

** The game credits Ferdinand Magellan for discovering that the Earth is round. That is marginally better than crediting UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus, but it still repeats the 19th century myth that MedievalMorons thought the Earth was flat. The correct answer should be the Ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who in 240 BC compared shadows in two locations to calculate the circumference of the Earth with remarkable accuracy.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"You'll never get past the game of ''Simon'' I locked this door with!"]]

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* HardTruthAesop: As the backstory details, there is a time and place for jokes and fun; exams are not a place for them. Yes, Ms. Winkle loves Polly along with her creativity and genius, but she still has the fail the exam for having silly answers. Sure it's not a nice thing, but it was necessary. Polly, being Polly, decided the solution was to change the timeline so all the answers would be correct.

A game in the ''VideoGame/JumpStart'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s. Originally released in [[TheNineties 1996]], this game has never been [[VideoGameRemake remade]], though it has been given some [[UpdatedRerelease minor alterations]] over the years. By the time of its last re-release in 2003, it was the oldest product still in the ''[=JumpStart=]'' line. It was discontinued only when [[Creator/JumpStartGames Knowledge Adventure]] phased out the traditional ''[=JumpStart=]'' line in favor of a massively multiplayer online game located at jumpstart.com.

* AdultsAreUseless: Zigzagged; on the one hand, Polly has free reign of the mountain laboratories because her father went away on a business conference. When Professor Spark does return however, he puts Polly in her place and saves Bottley's robot life before Polly compels him to use the time machine. He explains to them that he was actually trying to get home sooner, but due to the changes she caused, including pogo sticks used as a mode of transportation, he was unable to do so until Bottley and the player fixed all the problems.

** Botley went into a summary of the BadFuture that Polly created, including that people are using pogo sticks to travel. Professor Spark at the end appears to stop Polly, and apologizes to Botley because apparently due to Polly's meddling, it took a long time to get home thanks to the new form of transportation.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Polly is given the chance to retake the test, but now the questions are in Latin, something not even Polly seems to know]].

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A game in the ''VideoGame/JumpStart'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s. Originally released in [[TheNineties 1996]], this game has never been [[VideoGameRemake remade]], though it has been given some [[UpdatedRerelease minor alterations]] over the years. By the time of its last re-release in 2003, it was the oldest product still in the ''[=JumpStart=]'' line. It was discontinued only when Knowledge Adventure phased out the traditional ''[=JumpStart=]'' line in favor of a massively multiplayer online game located at jumpstart.com.

The game was released as ''Flygande Start 3:e Klass'' ("Flying Start 3rd Class") in Sweden, as ''Alkupolku Kolmas Luokka - Vaarojen Vuori'' ("Starting Path Third Class - Mountain of Dangers") in Finland, and as ''Trampolin Educacion Primaria Quinto Curso: La Montaña Misteriosa'' ("Trampoline Primary Education Fifth Year: The Mysterious Mountain") in Spain. However, unlike earlier ''[=JumpStart=]'' games, it was never released in the U.K. as a ''Jump Ahead'' title.

The game was released as ''Flygande Start 3:e Klass'' ("Flying Start 3rd Class") in Sweden, as ''Alkupolku Kolmas Luokka - Vaarojen Vuori'' ("Starting Path Third Class - Mountain of Dangers") in Finland, and as ''La Montaña Misteriosa'' ("The Mysterious Mountain") in Spain. These appear to be the only releases it received outside of North America.

* {{Fembot}}: Six. Starting with Mrs. Beasley the art expert, the ones that have to be rescued are Rhonda, Amelia, Miss Battery Bot, Verna and Brunwella.

* HeroicWillpower: Bottley in the end refuses to [[spoiler:obey Polly's order to jump in the time machine and commit suicide by going to the Big Bang. It's partly LovableCoward and self-preservation, since he points out that a robot going to the Big Bang would be spelling their death. Nevertheless, it is awesome that Bottley is the ''only'' robot that refused to obey her orders. He then stands his ground as Polly reminds him that Bottley is programmed to do everything she says. Fortunately, Professor Spark walks in and saves Bottley]].

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: The Shrinking Machine Room, obviously.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Basically the entire plot.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of the robots Polly sent back in time is Russian robot Cosmobot. Botley remarks, "Cosmobot and I [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar never used to get along]], but [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp now we're pals]]."

* EnfantTerrible: Polly.

* ExpositionFairy: Botley.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt

* GirlishPigtails: Polly.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Some of Ms. Winkle's responses (when they are rigged, at least) depict her chuckling at the CoolButStupid answers, [[HaHaHaNo but she still marks Polly incorrect.]]

* HaHaHaNo: After you fix the correct answers on Polly's test, Ms. Winkle sometimes gives a brief chuckle before deeming Polly's answer incorrect.

--> '''Polly''': Be quiet, [[AccidentalMisnaming Plotley]], this is ''my'' story!