History VideoGame / JumpStartAdventures4thGradeHauntedIsland

* UpdatedRerelease: Two years after its initial release, the game was rereleased with an onscreen leveling feature (previously leveling was activated by pressing "Ctrl-L") and an in-game map (previously the island map was only included in the user's guide)

* SceneryPorn: Haunted Island is one of Jumpstart's most beautifully detailed settings, looking like something out of ''Film/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.

* MadLibsDialogue: Occurs in, what else, the Cemetery minigame, which is essentially MadLibs.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Flap the bat sounds rather like Creator/PeterLorre, while the friendly ghost in the speech game that thanks the player for saving his soul is based on Creator/RodneyDangerfield (on another plane, he also sounds like Creator/WCFields, with a big nose to match).

* TakeYourTime: While some minigames are timed, some non-timed minigames like the Frog Potion minigame will try to make you hurry by saying Ms. Grunkle will jump you if you take too long.

* BagOfSpilling: Inverted. In the opening cutscene, Grunkel is flying with a witch's hat full of keys to her house, but she drops them all and her magic wand on the way to her house. The Player ends up picking them all up.

* BondVillainStupidity: Grunkle repeatedly taunts you - and why doesn't she turn you into a monster right there?

* ClosedCircle: It's greatly implied that no one is allowed to leave Grunkel's island.

* TheDragon: Repsac with Ms. Grunkle as the BigBad

* ExpositionFairy: Flap, a giant purple bat

* GuideDangIt: Early releases of the game only include the island map in the user's guide. Thus, if you don't have the user's guide, you can't navigate the island effectively and are pretty much screwed. (Clever form of CopyProtection, though.) Later releases dropped the user's guide and included the map in-game.

* LockedDoor: Grunkel's house is linear, and the only way to progress through it is to open doors that contain five locks on each. They can only be opened with [[SkeletonKey skeleton keys]] earned [[EveryTenThousandPoints every 5000 points]].

* MediumBlending: The game constantly flips between CGI animation and 2-D animation. For the most part, the main game is pre-rendered CGI while the mini games are 2-D. The main characters (Flap, Ms. Grunkle, etc.) are always CGI. Your classmates look CGI in the opening sequence, but they are 2-D animated in the yearbook and Madame Pomreeda's CrystalBall.

* PunnyName: Madame Pomreeda (Palm Reader?)

* FetchQuest: The game is mostly a series of these. You have thirteen classmates to save and four items are required to save one. You have to play three mini-games to get just one item. So in all, you have to play 156 mini-games to save all your classmates. On top of this, you have to play three rounds of all the mini-games, except for the pirate activity, to count as having played it once. So unless you get the pirate activity, you have to play nine rounds (three rounds for three mini-games) to get one item. Also, the game keeps track of which mini-games you're bad at and assigns those ones to you repeatedly. Yeah, it's a long game. The UpdatedRerelease changes it so you only have to play two mini-games to get one item, reducing the total number of mini-games who have to play from 156 to 104.

* FetchQuest: The game is mostly a series of these. You have thirteen classmates to save and four items are required to save one. You have to play three mini-games to get just one item. So in all, you have to play 156 mini-games to save all your classmates. On top of this, you have to play three rounds of all the mini-games, except for the pirate activity, to count as having played it once. So unless you get the pirate activity, you have to play nine rounds (three rounds for three mini-games) to get one item. Also, the game keeps track of which mini-games you're bad at and assigns those ones to you repeatedly. Yeah, it's a long game.

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* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Flap the bat, the game's ExpositionFairy and the closest thing it has to a main character, is a somewhat ugly/creepy looking bat.

** A blink-and-you'll-miss it mistake in this sequence: the boy named Joe turns into a silhouette that doesn't match his monster form. He's supposed to become a giant angry gorilla, but transforms into Stanley's form, a Frankenstein's monster instead.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Surprisingly averted in this game. The leading protagonist and antagonist, Pomreeda and Grunkel are both women, and out of the thirteen children you have to rescue seven of them are girls: [[GorgeousGorgon Violet]], [[BeautyToBeast Tiffany]], [[AlphaBitch Laura]], [[JekyllAndHyde Zev Cosmo]], [[CreepyDoll Jane]], [[WrenchWench Debbie]], and [[DeadlyDoctor Penny]].

** {{Pirate}}: Type 1. The pirates are your enemies, and if you run into one of their ships, you'll have to sink it in a cannon battle mini-mini game.

* NoSwastikas: Averted. The history activity features a number of historical photographs, including one of a Nazi flag.

As its subtitle might suggest, this game is remembered for its NightmareFuel, which was presumably a factor in its discontinuation. Okay, the plot: You are a fourth-grade student who has missed one day of school. While you were absent, the substitute teacher was a WickedWitch named Ms. Grunkle who [[BalefulPolymorph turned all your classmates into monsters]] and imprisoned them on a creepy island where everything looks like it was designed by TimBurton. So now ItsUpToYou to rescue them, wandering through the [[TheLostWoods spooky woods]] of the island to find the {{Mini Game}}s which provide you with {{Plot Coupon}}s. Occasionally, an evil ghost named Repsac will pop out of nowhere and force you to answer a question. Answering a question wrong will cost you [[HitPoints health points]] and losing all your health points will land in [[TheMaze the Labyrinth]].

Essentially, it's a DefangedHorrors version of a SurvivalHorror game. You can see a {{Walkthrough}} starting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upx8ZCALzR4 here]] and a review noting its scariness [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vUh_PZ5SK4 here]].

* MissingEpisode: This version of ''Jump Start 4th Grade'' has not been officially available since TheNineties...at least until [[https://archive.org/details/Jumpstart_4th_Grade the Internet Archive got their hands on it]].

* MissingEpisode: This version of ''Jump Start 4th Grade'' has not been officially available since TheNineties. If you want a copy, [[EBay eBay]] is probably your best bet.

* FetchQuest: The game is mostly a series of these. You have thirteen classmates to save and four items are required to save one. You have to play three mini-games to get just one item. So in all, you have to play 156 mini-games to save all your classmates. On top of this, you have to be play three rounds of all the mini-games, except for the pirate activity, to count as having played it once. So unless you get the pirate activity, you have to play nine rounds (three rounds for three mini-games) to get one item. Also, the game keeps track of which mini-games you're bad at and assigns those ones to you repeatedly. Yeah, it's a long game.

* StatusCellPhone: One of Laura's items is a (now fairly outdated) cell phone, which the game considers reflective of her ClassRepresentative personality. When the game was made in the mid-1990s, prepubescent children owning cell phones was very rare indeed.

** GarnishingTheStory: Well, pirates make at least as much sense as the Egyptian pyramid.

* TalkingToHerself: Pomreeda and Grunkel don't meet face-to-face, but they are both voiced by the same person, Jeannie Elias.

** InstantPlunderJustAddPirates: Well, pirates make at least as much sense as the Egyptian pyramid.

* TheDragon: Repsac with Ms. Grunkle as the BigBad

* DefangedHorrors: You don't actually ''die'', and the monsters won't actually ''hurt'' you...however they try to scare you.

A discontinued though somewhat infamous entry in the ''JumpStart'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s. Four years after its release, it was replaced by a new version which was about [[UndergroundLevel mining]]... or something. In any case, it was not as memorable as this one.