History VideoGame / JumpStartAdventures4thGradeHauntedIsland

* TheCameo: Hidden in the backgrounds in certain areas of Haunted Island are characters from previous [=JumpStart=] games. Pierre, Casey, Kisha and Eleanor from ''[=JumpStart=] Preschool'' can be found in the woods, while CJ from ''VideoGame/JumpStart2ndGrade'' can be found near the Mutant Swamp activity. Each of them sport a frightened or concerned look on their face. The cast of ''Preschool'' also make visual cameos on the "Cirque du Jumpstart" cart seen next to Pomreeda's caravan.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: On her tablet in the Mummy's Tomb, Rosa Parks is erroneously identified as having died in 1996 (the year of the game's release) when actually she would live to 2005.

** The re-release has 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).

** Each treasure chest in the Pirate Ship activity used to be worth 200 points, meaning that five treasures had to be collected in order to win. The re-release reduces it to four treasures by changing the point value to 250.

* TheCameo: Hidden in the trees in certain areas of the woods are characters from previous [=JumpStart=] games, consisting of the cast from ''[=JumpStart=] Preschool'' and CJ the frog from ''VideoGame/JumpStart2ndGrade'', each sporting a frightened or concerned look on their face.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Flap sounds rather like Creator/PeterLorre, while the friendly ghost in the Mad Libs game you're trying to save is based on Creator/RodneyDangerfield (from a visual perspective, he also sounds like Creator/WCFields, with a big nose to match).

* ExpositionFairy: Flap, a giant purple bat that sounds like Creator/PeterLorre.

** Each treasure chest in the Pirate Ship activity used to be worth 200 points, meaning that five treasures have to be collected in order to win. The re-release reduces it to four treasures by changing the point value to 250.

* ToothyBird: James is turned into [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins a penguin]] with teeth.

To rescue your classmates, you have to complete a series of {{Fetch Quest}}s for a fortune teller named Madame Pomreeda. These consist of you wandering through the [[TheLostWoods spooky woods]] of the island to find the {{Mini Game}}s that provide you with your classmates' personal belongings, which are needed to turn them back to normal. You're also helped by a purple bat named Flap, who serves as your ExpositionFairy. 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 you in [[TheMaze the Labyrinth]].

Can be downloaded from [[https://archive.org/details/Jumpstart_4th_Grade the Internet Archive]]. Essentially, it's a DefangedHorrors version of a SurvivalHorror game. You can see a {{Walkthrough}} starting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upx8ZCALzR4 here]] and a review/retrospective discussing the game's scariness [[https://youtu.be/UadQCtAehEY here]].

To rescue your classmates, you have to complete a series of {{Fetch Quest}}s for a fortune teller named Madame Pomreeda. These consist of you wandering through the [[TheLostWoods spooky woods]] of the island to find the {{Mini Game}}s that provide you with your classmates' personal belongings, which are needed to turn them back to normal. You're also helped by a purple bat named Flap, who plays a similar role as [[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain Botley]] as your companion. 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 you in [[TheMaze the Labyrinth]].

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 personal belongings of the classmates needed to turn them back to normal. Helping you out is a purple bat named Flap, who plays a similar roll as [[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain Botley]] as your companion, and a fortune teller named Madame Pomreeda, who can turn your classmates back to normal with said personal belongings. 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 you in [[TheMaze the Labyrinth]].

A discontinued, though somewhat infamous, entry in the ''VideoGame/JumpStart'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s. Three years after its release, it was replaced by a new version, subtitled ''[[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeSapphireFalls Sapphire Falls]]''.

You are a fourth-grade student who has missed one day of school. Not only were ''you'' absent, but the teacher was as well. The substitute teacher just happened to be a WickedWitch named Ms. Grunkle, who [[ForcedTransformation turned all your classmates into monsters]] and imprisoned them on a creepy island where everything looks like it was designed by Creator/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 personal belongings of the classmates needed to turn them back to normal. Helping you out is a purple bat named Flap, who plays a similar roll as [[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain Botley]] as your companion, and a fortune teller named Madame Pomreeda, who can turn your classmates back to normal with said personal belongings. 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 you in [[TheMaze the Labyrinth]].

A discontinued, though somewhat infamous, entry in the ''VideoGame/JumpStart'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s. As its subtitle might suggest, this game is remembered for its creepy atmosphere and a notable instance of NightmareFuel. Three years after its release, it was replaced by a new version, subtitled ''[[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeSapphireFalls Sapphire Falls]]''.

* BagOfSpilling: Inverted. In the opening cutscene, Ms. Grunkle 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.

You are a fourth-grade student who has missed one day of school. Not only were ''you'' absent, but the teacher was as well. The substitute teacher just happened to be 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 Creator/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 personal belongings of the classmates needed to turn them back to normal. Helping you out is a purple bat named Flap, who plays a similar roll as [[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain Botley]] as your companion, and a fortune teller named Madame Pomreeda, who can turn your classmates back to normal with said personal belongings. 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 you in [[TheMaze the Labyrinth]].

* BondVillainStupidity: Ms. Grunkle repeatedly taunts you, yet doesn't really do anything to prevent the player from continuing.

* MonsterClown: Calvin becomes this.

** Laura becomes a vampire, except with ''two heads'', one of them is her normal head and the other is a purple-skinned vampire head. When she transforms back to normal, her normal head turns around and [[JustEatHim EATS the vampire head]].

** PirateBooty: You have to identity the countries with this, based on the geography clues.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Not in the game proper, but all the songs you have to play in the music activity are conveniently out of copyright. They run the gambit from classical music to folk songs to spirituals and so on. After you perform a song successfully, Semimoto tells you what you just played.

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

Can be downloaded from [[https://archive.org/details/Jumpstart_4th_Grade the Internet Archive]]. Essentially, it's a DefangedHorrors version of a SurvivalHorror game. You can see a {{Walkthrough}} starting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upx8ZCALzR4 here]] and a review noting its scariness [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vUh_PZ5SK4 here]].

A discontinued, though somewhat infamous, entry in the ''VideoGame/JumpStart'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s. As its subtitle might suggest, this game is remembered for its NightmareFuel, which was presumably a factor in its discontinuation. Three years after its release, it was replaced by a new version, subtitled ''[[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeSapphireFalls Sapphire Falls]]''.

A discontinued, though somewhat infamous, entry in the ''VideoGame/JumpStart'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s. As its subtitle might suggest, this game is remembered for its NightmareFuel, which was presumably a factor in its discontinuation. Four years after its release, it was replaced by a new version, subtitled ''[[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures4thGradeSapphireFalls Sapphire Falls]]''.

You are a fourth-grade student who has missed one day of school. Not only were ''you'' absent, but the teacher was as well, with the substitute teacher being 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 Creator/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 personal belongings of the classmates needed to turn them back to normal. Helping you out is a purple bat named Flap, who plays a similar roll as [[VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain Botley]] as your companion, and a fortune teller named Madame Pomreeda, who can turn your classmates back to normal with said personal belongings. 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 you in [[TheMaze the Labyrinth]].