History YMMV / JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Most of the music counts, really, but especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW4qnxQkYs generator theme]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePWktuHCjaA kitchen theme]], [[https://youtu.be/INQ6TuTqgFY Pollywood Squares]][[https://youtu.be/pxV-Eu_tjOA?t=16 theme]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxewNYhaKI observatory theme]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Most of the music counts, really, but especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW4qnxQkYs generator theme]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePWktuHCjaA kitchen theme]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxV-Eu_tjOA Pollywood Squares theme]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxewNYhaKI observatory theme]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Most of the music counts, really, but especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbW4qnxQkYs generator theme]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePWktuHCjaA kitchen theme]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrxewNYhaKI observatory theme]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Most of the music counts, really, but especially the generator theme, kitchen theme, and observatory theme.

* BreatherLevel: Whenever the Painting Gallery ends up as one of the clue objectives. The gallery is so easy that it usually only requires the player to pick a background, copy-and-paste one of the object choices or quickly draw something, and choose one of the background music. In the end, this task is usually always completed in under 30 seconds.

*** When you're asked how many countries compete in the Olympics, the correct answer is 120, with 200 offered as an incorrect answer. This is outdated even for the time when the game was made. The game was released in 1996, and the Olympics that year featured 197 countries. And prior to '96, the number of countries in the Olympics had hovered around 150 for about a decade. 120 is more in line with the number of countries that competed in the Olympics during the '60s and '70s.

** At the Wheel of Invention, you're informed that trampolines were "invented over five decades ago," and asked to select the earliest year you could use a trampoline out of 1946, 1956, or 1995. The game wants you to subtract fifty from circa 1996 and get 1946. As of 2007, the arithmetic no longer gives you the correct answer.
** At another point, 2010 is offered as an incorrect answer to a question asking what year an archaeologist might be interested in. If you select it, you'll be told that "archaeologists don't study the future."

* NightmareFuel:
** The earlier drafts had some considerably darker elements compared to the final product. Polly's behavior was the [[FreudianExcuse result]] of [[AbusiveParents child abuse from her father]], who struck her in a deleted scene when she couldn't fight back due to not having her inventions on her. Polly would also get an implied [[DeathOfAChild death scene]] in which she's trapped in her lab as an unspecified gas fills the entire room. [[CensoredChildDeath The scene cuts out as she collapses]] with Botley unable to save her. Pretty nasty for an edutainment game.
** The idea that [[spoiler:Polly is so mad about her failing a test that she will command Botley to ''kill himself in a humongous explosion'' for her explanation of the Big Bang is frightening.]]

** One of the outcomes from the timeline Polly created is an orangutan being elected President of the United States. In [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama 2008]], this gag became racist.

* BreatherLevel: Whenever the Painting Gallery ends up as one of the clue objectives. The gallery is so easy that it usually only requires the player to pick a background, copy-and-paste one of the object choices or quickly draw something, and choose one of the background musics. In the end, this task is usually always completed in under 30 seconds.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Most of Polly's joke answers (while disastrous if they were real) are funny, things like breakfast cereal being made with frozen fish, da Vinci not being able to make a helicopter because of spaghetti sauce... Ms. Winkle's responses are also quite funny when she states the flat-out ridiculous things are correct whereas Botley himself gets increasingly exasperated with Polly's nonsense.
** Botley also has some remarks to mny of Polly's joke answers. For example, he's horrified at the idea of the Ancient Greeks having to run marathons in ''high heels''.

* NightmareFuel: The earlier drafts had some considerably darker elements compared to the final product. Polly's behavior was the [[FreudianExcuse result]] of [[AbusiveParents child abuse from her father]], who struck her in a deleted scene when she couldn't fight back due to not having her inventions on her. Polly would also get an implied [[DeathOfAChild death scene]] in which she's trapped in her lab as an unspecified gas fills the entire room. [[CensoredChildDeath The scene cuts out as she collapses]] with Botley unable to save her. Pretty nasty for an edutainment game.

* ThatOnePuzzle: While the biosphere is the most hated minigame, the constellation portion of the observatory gets a fair amount of hate as well. You're supposed to use the hint you get from the sentence unscrambling puzzle and match it with the proper constellation. Should be simple, right? Too bad there's a ridiculous amount of constellations to wade through! The way you're supposed to go about it is to listen to each description until you find the proper match, but thanks to the sheer excess of them making it a needle in the haystack puzzle, you quickly realize it's better to just keep double-clicking on constellations until you find the right one. It uses up mountain energy, yes, but it's a whole lot more convenient and [[AntiFrustrationFeatures Botley just flat out gives away the answer if you guess wrong enough times anyway]].

* UnderusedGameMechanic: The Simon Says door. You play it once at the start of the game to enter Mystery Mountain, and is then completely forgotten about.
** You actually ''can'' return, but [[GuideDangIt you have to know to click a specific spot on the first floor]]. It does however [[BrickJoke get a funny scene]] where Botley's rocket reappears.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Most of Polly's joke answers (while disastrous if they were real) are ActuallyPrettyFunny, things like breakfast cereal being made with frozen fish, da Vinci not being able to make a helicopter because of spaghetti sauce... Ms. Winkle's responses are also quite funny when she states the flat-out ridiculous things are correct whereas Botley himself gets increasingly exasperated with Polly's nonsense.

* NightmareFuel: The earlier drafts had some considerably darker elements compared to the final product. Polly's behavior was the [[FreudianExcuse result]] of [[AbusiveParents child abuse from her father]], who struck her in a deleted scene when she couldn't fight back due to not having her inventions on her. Polly would also get an implied [[DeathOfAChild death scene]] in which she's trapped in her lab as an unspecified gas fills the entire room. [[CensoredChildDeath The scene cuts out as she collapses]] with Botley unable to save her. Pretty nasty for an edutainment game.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Most of Polly's joke answers (while disastrous if they were real) are ActuallyPrettyFunny, things like breakfast cereal being made with frozen fish, da Vinci not being able to make a helicopter because of spaghetti sauce...
** Ms. Winkle's responses are also quite funny when she states the flat-out ridiculous things are correct.
** Botley himself gets increasingly exasperated with Polly's nonsensical answers.

** Ms. Winkle's responses are also quite funny when she states the flat out ridiculous things are correct.

* MagnificentBitch: Polly, for the vast majority of the game, seems to have always thought out in advance how to make things extra challenging for you and Botley, stacking the deck in her favor but not without giving you your best fighting chance. Rarely does she ever seem to lose her cool, even after you've rescued another one of the robots she sent back in time to mess up something's history, and sometimes even compliments you like a GracefulLoser and WorthyOpponent. Of course she could just be so sure of her chances because [[spoiler: she was always planning on sending Botley back to the beginning of time to ''bring her own universe into existence'', so she'd win in the end no matter how many times you'd thwarted her. If her father hadn't come back when he did...]]

* SlowPacedBeginning: As explained in ProlongedPrologue on the main page, the game's introductory sequence lasts nearly a ''half hour long.'' There is a huge amount of exposition and extremely little player interaction, with only a total of ''six clicks'' and a Simon game across that entire span before the actual game begins. Even its cut down version only slices off a few minutes at most.

** One for Bottley at the end; when Polly orders him to go to the beginning of the universe to help her answer the extra-credit question, he refuses. Polly presses that he's programmed to follow her commands as her "babysitter" robot. Yet despite being terrified and knowing his programming will kick in eventually, Bottley stands his ground because his self-preservation and OnlySaneMan tendencies fuel his HeroicWillpower. Not to mention that he'd need the player to unlock the time machine and power it again, and the player is obviously wouldn't hurt their guide.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: When Professor Spark appears, he manages to diffuse Polly in under a minute without needing to raise his voice or threaten her. That's a father who commands respect.

* ThatOnePuzzle: While the biosphere is the most hated minigame, the constellation portion of the observatory gets a fair amount of hate as well. You're supposed to use the hint you get from the sentence unscrambling puzzle and match it with the proper constellation. Should be simple, right? Too bad there's a ridiculous amount of constellations to wade through! The way you're supposed to go about it is listen to each description until you find the proper match, but thanks to the sheer excess of them making it a needle in the haystack puzzle, you quickly realize it's better to just keep double-clicking on constellations until you find the right one. It uses up mountain energy, yes, but it's a whole lot more convenient and [[AntiFrustrationFeatures Botley just flat out gives away the answer if you guess wrong enough times anyway]].