* AntiClimaxBoss: The player confronts Ms. Grunkle in her house, and she's ready to turn the children, including the player, back into monsters... only once she notices her wand is now in the player's possession, she simply flees after saying WeWillMeetAgain.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The music for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P216-qABRg Vampire Maze]] is a delightfully haunting waltz.
** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPrsVRU3Q2M this track]], which plays during the game's ending credits.
* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeHauntedIsland Has its own page.]]
* ParanoiaFuel:
** Repsac can jump out at ''any'' time... even in the Labyrinth.
** A few challenges try to scare you and say that Ms. Grunkle will jump you if you're too slow.
* ThatOnePuzzle:
** The Toad Well is one of the most hated minigames, thanks to its awkward controls, required multitasking, and the fact that it's got one of the longest individual rounds of any timed minigame, with no on-screen timer to indicate when you're nearing the end of it.
** The Mummy's Crypt is essentially mahjong solitaire, but in later levels, the tiles are arranged in such a way that forces you to match the tiles a certain order. If you choose a wrong one, get ready to hear a annoying cat's yowling and if you don't clear it out in the proper order, you have to start over again. Get ready to ''really'' hate that cat's yowling.
** The Mutant Swamp can end up being very frustrating for players on account of it being majorly TrialAndErrorGameplay compared to the more legitimately educational minigames.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Flap's comment that it was "a long time ago" that anyone was in the Mummy's Tomb rings a lot truer nowadays:
*** UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong, UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, Creator/JacquesCousteau, UsefulNotes/NelsonMandela, UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev, and Mother Teresa are all identified as still being alive. Although Jacques Cousteau and Mother Teresa both died in 1997, their tablets were not updated to reflect this in the 1998 re-release.
*** Denali is referred to by its former name of Mount [=McKinley.=]
*** Susan B. Anthony's tablet mentions that she's the only female historical figure who has appeared on U.S. coins, which ceased to be true when the Sacagawea dollar coin was introduced in 2000.[[note]]Good thing they specified coins. UsefulNotes/{{Pocahontas}} and Martha Washington both appeared on U.S. paper money during the nineteenth century.[[/note]]
*** Creator/PabloPicasso is described as being active in "this century," meaning the twentieth century.
** On the map in the Pirate Ship game, the UsefulNotes/DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo is still Zaire, and there's no UsefulNotes/SouthSudan. Even though it was in 1997 that Zaire became the DRC, this isn't updated in the 1998 re-release. Also, one of the clues for UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica identifies Nelson Mandela as the country's current president because that could never possibly become dated. A similar clue that took much longer to become dated identifies UsefulNotes/ElizabethII as the current ruler of the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom.
** One of Laura's missing items is a StatusCellPhone. Sure, it was normal for an adult to own a cell phone when the game was released in 1996, but it was still almost unheard-of for a preteen child to have one, hence the old trope still applying.
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