YMMV / JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island

• Anti-Climax Boss: 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 We Will Meet Again.
• Awesome Music:
  • The music for the Vampire Maze is a delightfully haunting waltz.
  • There's also this track, which plays during the game's ending credits.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • 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.
• That One Puzzle:
  • 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 Trial-and-Error Gameplay compared to the more legitimately educational minigames.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • Flap's comment that it was "a long time ago" that anyone was in the Mummy's Tomb rings a lot truer nowadays:
    • Neil Armstrong, Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Cousteau, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, 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. Pocahontas and Martha Washington both appeared on U.S. paper money during the nineteenth century.
    • Pablo Picasso is described as being active in "this century," meaning the twentieth century.
  • On the map in the Pirate Ship game, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is still Zaire, and there's no South Sudan. 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 South Africa 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 Elizabeth II as the current ruler of the United Kingdom.
  • One of Laura's missing items is a Status Cell Phone. 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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