JumpStart Games, Inc. was an educational video game company that existed from 1991 to 2023. Originally known as Knowledge Adventure, it was founded by Rick Gibson and brothers Larry and Bill Gross. It was based in Torrance, California.
The company is most notable for creating the JumpStart Edutainment Game series, a property which the company would rename itself after in 2012. It also became the owners of the Blaster Series after acquiring Davidson & Associates in 1998. In 2014, it bought Neopets from Viacom. After JumpStart was shuttered in 2023, Neopets was transferred over to Fluffy Dog Studios.
Video games by this company:
- Blaster Series (following the 1998 merger with Davidson & Associates)
- Blaster Mystery Series (Reading Blaster Vocabulary: Ages 9-12 was the only entry in this series released under the "Knowledge Adventure" banner)
- JumpStart
- JumpStart Preschool
- JumpStart Kindergarten
- JumpStart 1st Grade
- JumpStart 2nd Grade
- JumpStart Math for Second Graders
- JumpStart Reading for Second Graders
- JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain
- JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island
- JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Sapphire Falls
- JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective
- JumpStart Adventures 6th Grade: Mission Earthquest
- JumpStart 3D Virtual World Series
- Neopets (2014 - 23)
- Sabrina The Animated Series: Magical Adventure
- Sabrina: Zapped! (Developed by Wayforward Technologies; co-published with Simon & Schuster)
- Sabrina: Spooked! (Developed by Wayforward Technologies; co-published with Simon & Schuster)
- Sabrina The Teenage Witch: A Twitch In Time! (PlayStation (this was Knowledge Adventure's last licensed video game with Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spellman before moving to Ubisoft)
