I'm really sad that kids will no longer experience the amazing b-horror aesthetic of the original 4th grade, it got replaced by a significantly less spooky alternative.
This is the first LGR video to be translated into both Spanish and Italian! Check the closed captioning button below the video to try it out. Huge thank you to Diego and Luciano!!
As a Spanish speaker and teacher I approve this translation, however, maybe it should be a little condensed, so viewers can read it faster, I noticed that at some points there's too much to read and they go away too fast for most people. But still a nice work.
***** I played the one where you were the dog (Jump-Ahead UK) in Year 2 (first Grade) where you had been shrunk and you had to help the ants to win. AND I really got into that game!
I’ve always preferred the original Adventure Island on NES over the wii remake. And even then I prefer wonder boy over adventure island (both are the same game)
"Jump, jump, jump... please kill me, jump, jump, jump..." XD ...hey waitaminute... the choice of a rabbit mascot made more sense than a dog because the whole name of the program is "JUMP" Start, you know, jumping like a rabbit would? ...Meh, what do I know? My full time job programming educational software only lasted two years. :P
I was drawn to Jumpstart 1st grade in my day care days, as it was installed on the computers there. Eventually my mom bought me a copy, followed slowly by Spelling and a few other spin-off entries. But it was the "Adventures" series - Grades 3 and 5, that got me hooked, and I still like those entries today. Weirdly, after I got my copy of 1st grade, I didn't expect Frankie's voice to be higher than I thought it was, on the day care PCs. Oh, and when I was growing up in the 90's, I knew NOTHING about Pogs. Not even in school.
Oh my god, I'm overflowing with nostalgia. I can barely contain myself. I wouldn't mind you looking at Jumpstart 3rd grade, with the psychotic pig-tailed girl and a time traveling robot. I freaking loved that one.
I actually remember playing both versions of Kindergarten -- I had the classic version and my school had the late 90s version. I remember being confused out of my mind as to why they were so different from each other, but enjoyable in their own ways. Now I know... And knowing is half the battle!
The games at 2:28 and 2:34 literally snapped my brain into full nostalgia mode. I remember sitting at the library with my now best friend in kindergarten playing these games and i haven't had that memory until i saw this video. My head feels all tingly now.
Ah, yes...so many memories. We had a few of these games and others. Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd..then a few others. Like Spanish and the Writing and Creativity Center. ...I was homeschooled until 2nd grade.
i found out about it because of the 3d multiplayer virtual world jumpstart XD played that game since it came out.. they updated it though and everyone is quitting that game bc they made the characters look retarded.. just look up Jumpstart on youtube and watch their vids. they even had madagascar in it for a while. nice game
Man, I loved playing Jump-Start games when I was a kid. I know I used to have Pre-K, Kindergarten, Numbers, Spelling, Spanish, and Toddlers. There's a few missing since I don't exactly remember all of them. IMO it's kinda sad to see that JumpStart's more focused on some kiddie MMO game now. But I'll always remember them for their old glory days of the 90s.
These games actually started getting pretty fun and if I recall correctly 3rd grade and 5th Grade: Science Edition were the two best in the series! I believe one of em had an evil girl classmate who wanted to make the planets revolve around HER. I'm not even joking, but they were actually great for small fun learning on the side between kinder and 3rd grade. That's right, I was such a badass I was playing the 3rd grade level game in the 1st grade, just like my reading level was at a NINTH GRADE. Step back everyone, I almost forgot how hardcore I am.
Squall338 Cluefinders came MUUUUUUCH later than JumpStart. Two entirely different edutainment era's/decades. There's definitely some enjoyable CF games though.
Holy fuzz bucket! Watching this just opened some deep recessed crevice in my mind...I used to play these Jumpstart games as a kid! Specifically 3rd Grade. I was pretty shocked by it back then, it was actually genuinely GOOD! And it played like a Point'n'click adventure game! It had a retro sci-fi setting, a cool robot main character, surprisingly good voice acting, and the plot (Yes, it has one) involves using your master's time machine to travel through a borked up timeline in an attempt to fix it! So...If any of you guys/gals reading this have kids, I seriously recommend picking up Jumpstart 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain. One of the only edutainment games I can recall actually having fun whilst learning. Thanks for that shot of nostalgia, Clint! Would love to see a review of Jumpstart 3rd Grade, if you're doing more edutainment stuff. 4th, 5th, and 6th apparently are quite good as well, though I never played them.
I remember growing up with the Jump Start games, all the way up to the third grade one. I pretty much played these at home and sometimes at school, when I wasn't playing Pokemon. It's pretty neat to see this series covered on the show. Thanks for the childhood memories, Clint.
Well that was a nostalgic episode I remember playing the 1st grade one in computer class when i was a wee lad right when I heard the song It's FRAANNNKKKY MY mind exploded into a nostalgic overload.
WOAH!!! Jump Start First Grade! I haven't remembered that in years. I would play it for hours. It was a lot of fun. You better believe I collected every damn milk cap. I think my favorite games was giving the kids all those weird food combinations, but my dad always made me play the vending machine one because I was bad with change. I'd love to find it and play it again just for the nostalgia. Thank you LGR! I don't know if I would have remembered this without you. This is why you are my favorite youtuber, hands down FAVORITE!
I played First Grade for ages, that game is super addictive. Now all that music is stuck again in my head, I just know I'll be hearing it in my sleep DX
Oh man, I remember playing Jump Start Kindergarten when I was four! The nostalgia! Later on (around 7) I came across a copy of First Grade, but for whatever reason didn't like it as much. Mr. Hopsalot all the way! The other edutainment game I remember playing was this one Reader Rabbit game where you had to save a play of some sort. I don't remember the exact name, but I remember it being pretty good!
Ohhhh my gosh, Jumpstart First Grade was my JAM! I played it a little before, during, and welllll after first grade. Had both the 1995 and 2000 edition games, but I think the Classic ‘95 edition is most memorable. I used to always laugh during the coin change vending machine game when the machine would say “Error: You have too much money” because, especially out of context, that just seemed hilarious to little me. Another memory was of one of the story books that had this amazingly bad Aussie accent read the rhyme “Vegemite, Vegemite, we eat Vegemite. Come and I’ll sail ya/ down to Australia”, that gave me a chuckle too. And I loved the music throughout! I think during the pizza mini game there was a version of the overture to Barber of Seville, crazily enough I’m an opera singer now so it’s really cool to look back on the many ways opera music first came into my life!
My first nostalgic video of LGR, played the first grade game and i had alot of fun with them, thanks for putting me to alot more nostalgia which i love so much :D
I never had any of the main jumpstart games, but when i was a kid i had jumpstart animal adventure which from what i remember was all about what kinds of animals there were and where they lived and such. One of the things i remember about it was this one minigame about ants were you could cut the leaves into different shapes.
I had Jumpstart 1st Grade, 3rd grade, and Typing. I played the 4/5/6grade games at other kids houses, during play dates. I miss these games. Jumpstart a typing was the best one, that’s the one I miss the most!
OMG this game made me smart lmao. I only remember doing the cooking parts, but watching this video made all the memories come rushing back!! I was like 3 or 4 lol
A retrospective about Jumpstart like this video feels like it would've been made in the past few years. Was surprised to find that you made this in 2014
Ok, I'm legit tearing up right now. THIS!!! This was my childhood and I all but forgot about this until I came across this video! Thanks, LGR! Now this makes me want to find this game online and play it just for the nostaglia! P.S. I think that voice is hilarious, as well. Which, strangely enough reminds me of Bob Ross...
This is such a throwback for me, I used to play these all the time when I was younger. So even the game covers bring back memories. Seeing the games start up and especially seeing the cashier game and baking game.. The nostalgia is insane here.
On a side note, this reminds me of Millie's Math House or Sammy's Science House which also featured random things you can click on just for the fun of it.
I love this video simply because I have vague memories of Jump Start First Grade that are always stirred up. The cafeteria and metal detector scenes in particular just stir some vague recollections in me.
Yes LGR, as a person that would have been 3 years old around the time this game first came out, I enjoyed it significantly, it was the most popular game in the whole school. it is no exaggeration to say I have grown up with the series, playing each game every grade I graduated. I think one of the things that made it so appealing at first sight was that you could click everything. A staple in the franchise. please do more!
My entire childhood in video, this brings back so many memories. For some reason I skipped the kindergarten game, but I got the first grade CD-Rom just before I actually started kindergarten. Then every year I’d get the next one, but I’d be one year ahead of the curve! I’d also take the CDs into the car and bug my mom with the music, while I’m sure she was just trying to enjoy having a nice sports car she had to hear this cheesy stuff… oh well. Windows 95 was freakin cool.
I had both First grade and Second grade, in Swedish. In the Second grade the school mascot was a frog, so you know, the massacre clearly continued. Also he had a super sassy friend who was a... I want to say lightning bug? Some kind of insect.
Dude, thanks so much for this. The Jump Start games (1st through 3rd grade) and all of the Humongous Entertainment games were a MASSIVE part of my childhood, in fact, Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon was literally the first game I ever played on a PC. Would love to see a retrospective of the Humongous Entertainment games.
I remember playing a ton of edutainment games as a kid and jump start was probably the first of those games. I played the one where Frankie got shrunk down to the size of a bug and you'd collect either bones or badges from playing games with the other characters.
My children used the later version of Jumpstart. Now you can go to a webpage for extra activities too. Oh and they also will try to get your to buy the next grade up with on-line activities via email. I agree with you it is a excellent series and I didn't know they were around that long..wow. Thanks for the awesome review...
Oh my god, the 1st grade one was my first Jump Start game as a child and I remember all those things! Never realized how oddly shaped the dog's hands were at that vending machine tho...
I grew up playing those games as a kid. I really like that hamster who said the French fries line you enjoy and the crazy stuff that happens when you click on things. I mostly like the Jumpstart 2nd Grade soundtrack which included songs that ranged from very good to very cheesy, but they are really enjoyable and catchy to listen to.
WOW THE MEMORIES!! I grew up with both these games. I always had lots of fun with them. And i think these were the games that pretty much gave me english basics and helped me out a lot in school at the time (i live in Venezuela, we speak spanish here) Thank you LGR for reviewing these games :) loved this, keep it up!
I actualy remember the First Grade version! I would always ignore all the other games in favor of the sticker/art game. And I knew Frankie was up to something, so it's no suprise he killed that Rabbit, the creep. Also I remember two other edutainment games that I can't name. One was a 'haunted' theamed one, it ran on Mac, was realy pretty and atmospheric and the villian was this witch who looked like the sister of the one in Conker. The next one was actualy a series that also ran on mac. It was about this group of kids who went arround the world solving assorted educational puzzles in exotic areas. The two my school had were placed in the Amazon and in Egypt. I remember getting to the end of the amazon one, all the other kids gathered arround the computer and we all worked together to beat the last level! If anyone knows these games please say, I'd love to re-live this bit of nostalgia.
Oh my God. I had a nostalgia attack when you booted up Jump Start 1st Grade and that sound played. I loved that game as a kid, and I would even play it now just because of all the great memories I had with it. I also played Freddie Fish, but Jump Start was the series I played the most, up to Jump Start 3rd Grade.
I remember having a jump start game that was for grade 6+ history where you'd travel through time with a robot to save the world from a scientist's daughter by restoring history to its original form. I loved that game so much
OMG that black IBM CRT behind you brings back memories of high school!!! They set all systems to a low frame rate... It gave me such horrible eye pain!!!
Yet again I'm reminded why I subscribe to this channel! You seem to have an almost superhuman ability to find so many of my dearest childhood memories and bringing them forth. Had the first grade and third grade editions of these games as a kid and me and my siblings adored them! And yes that first grade jingle will stick with you for years, even in swedish! ("första första första klass, första för...GAAAH!"). Keep up the good work man your channel rocks!
That's the darndest thing - Jump Start Kindergarten seems a bit more technically advanced than I remember it. Then again, 4/5 year old me was understandably addled and relatively bad at forming memories, but I seem to remember it looking... worse than it did in this video. Also, I could apparently make the game crash into a DOS prompt where it would output colorful 80x25 garbage onto the screen... which might've been me figuring out how to alt-tab back into Windows 95. I was almost certainly overexposed to Jump Start back in the day, having played entries in the series up from Kindergarten to 6th grade!
3:23 THAT AUTOPLAY MENU SOUND THO. I immediately remembered like a bunch JumpStart games I had with that one noise alone. I never had these two games though, I had so many others for so many other grades and areas of study. It was amazing.
GOSH, I love your videos. This is my childhood, right here. Played them from kindergarten all the way to the 6th grade version, and I was homeschooled, so got plenty of playtime with them (sometimes I sing that 1st grade theme out of nowhere, hehe). I still own 3rd, 5th and 6th grade, I believe! My favorite was definitely 5th grade, which played a lot like a crime/mystery visual novel outside of the educational mini games. I really regret giving up the others, especially 3rd grade and the JS Typing one, which I owe so much to for my 40wpm skills. :D
For educational games, I had a couple Jump Start, a few Reader Rabbit and a few random ones like Zoombeanies Logical Adventure and some other one with a frog or cricket or something as the protagonist (obviously that one made an impression on me) But then I had a lot of the "Junior Adventures" games, like Freddy Fish and PuttPutt, as well as a couple Pajama Sam and Spy Fox. Then throughout late elementary school through Middle school I got into simulation games like Tropico, Anno 1602 (my favorite), Locomotion, and SimCity. Now I play mostly simulation games and RPGs, but I'm also branching out into FPSs and strategy games. I'm a weird kid (even though i'm 19, I'm definitely not an adult yet...)
Man I remember this. First grade, I had when I was a kid. I think I had kindergarden too, but first grade was so much more fun. The dog had such a doofy voice in Norwegian. I always loved the cantina minigame. Guess I was always set up for good math skills. Ah. The good old days. I wonder if the CD is in some obscure packing box. It was completely translated too. Like, the coins in the vending machine game was made into Norwegian coins. And pogs were super popular when I grew up too. Though I don't know if they were POG pogs, as much. Those more cardboard-y with the flap and the staple. I remember those. They were terrible to play with. So no one did!
The jump start series has a LOT of interesting games and some are still even fun today (yeah i know that sounds weird from a 21 year old but hey nostalgia attacks in interesting ways)
Holy shit. I've been watching all your vids lately, and for some reason your channel really made me wanna play that "Jump Start 1st Grade (+ 2nd and 3rd)". Haven't played em in years, even though I've kept googling for the norwegian version "Lek & Lær" for a while without even finding a single picture. And then after many months, I realize you've actually uploaded this. Thanks man.
I'm really sad that kids will no longer experience the amazing b-horror aesthetic of the original 4th grade, it got replaced by a significantly less spooky alternative.
I just wish the "JumpStart" series was ported to Steam. I mean the "Freddi Fish" series got digital Steam ports, why didn't this?
@@supermariof0521 GOG would be more a more likely candidate company to port them; rereleasing old games was kind of their thing early on.
I still have my CD of that! I also still have the nightmares!
I remember Jump Start 4th Grade being too scary for me as a 10-year-old, so I stuck with Jump Start 3rd Grade.
This is the first LGR video to be translated into both Spanish and Italian! Check the closed captioning button below the video to try it out.
Huge thank you to Diego and Luciano!!
holy burrito you are awesome congrats from Mexico
P.D You should rewiev Blood 2
Any chance of a Museum Madness review?
Someday yes, but not this month
Oh my God. I remember this series, my nostalgia levels are off the charts!
As a Spanish speaker and teacher I approve this translation, however, maybe it should be a little condensed, so viewers can read it faster, I noticed that at some points there's too much to read and they go away too fast for most people. But still a nice work.
YES! I used to play the Jump Start games as a kid.
Ah the memories.
***** I played the one where you were the dog (Jump-Ahead UK) in Year 2 (first Grade) where you had been shrunk and you had to help the ants to win. AND I really got into that game!
yea i remember playing them around 5
I’ve always preferred the original Adventure Island on NES over the wii remake.
And even then I prefer wonder boy over adventure island (both are the same game)
PaleoSteno same
I wasn't expecting a nostalgia rush from this, but when you reviewed Jump Start First Grade, childhood memories I didn't even know I had came up.
IKR
Alright guys it's summer of 1996 and the public library's got a one-hour time limit on the kids's PCs time to speedrun this shit
I lost it at the french fries. That voice.
Scarfulhu that guy always sounded weird to me
Was that voice in the game? I thought it was Clint's. He just decided to go camp on us.
I never had either of these games, but I did have Jumpstart 2nd Grade. It featured a talking frog, and a fly with a Scottish accent.
That one was actually really fun even though it was my little brother's.
That was the best one!
I think I had that version as well
Best one by a mile. And now THAT theme song was an ear worm. Anytime someone says/type's "Jumpstart 2nd Grade" I hear it in the song rofl.
I freaking loved Jumpstart 2nd grade! It was actually really good.
*jim sterling busts though the door*
POGS?!
DID SOMEONE SAY POGS?!
"Jump, jump, jump... please kill me, jump, jump, jump..." XD
...hey waitaminute... the choice of a rabbit mascot made more sense than a dog because the whole name of the program is "JUMP" Start, you know, jumping like a rabbit would? ...Meh, what do I know? My full time job programming educational software only lasted two years. :P
That makes entirely to much sense though. I'm convinced Frankie had mob connections and made Hopsalot an offer he couldn't refuse
I REMEMBER THIS AND I HAVE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR WHAT IT WAS CALLED THANK YOU SO MUCH
I was drawn to Jumpstart 1st grade in my day care days, as it was installed on the computers there. Eventually my mom bought me a copy, followed slowly by Spelling and a few other spin-off entries. But it was the "Adventures" series - Grades 3 and 5, that got me hooked, and I still like those entries today.
Weirdly, after I got my copy of 1st grade, I didn't expect Frankie's voice to be higher than I thought it was, on the day care PCs.
Oh, and when I was growing up in the 90's, I knew NOTHING about Pogs. Not even in school.
Jump Start First Grade was literally my childhood on computers. I can still recite all the lyrics to those songs at the beach and zoo or whatever.
Oh my god, I'm overflowing with nostalgia. I can barely contain myself.
I wouldn't mind you looking at Jumpstart 3rd grade, with the psychotic pig-tailed girl and a time traveling robot. I freaking loved that one.
looks like mr hopsalot became hopsolete
Or maybe he retired.
Jump jump jump start- please kill me
5:18 "The typical kid that takes pogs way too seriously" Jim Sterling?
Lol. The kid grows up to be jimsaw.
JUMP JUMP JUMP
START FIRST GRADE
I actually remember playing both versions of Kindergarten -- I had the classic version and my school had the late 90s version. I remember being confused out of my mind as to why they were so different from each other, but enjoyable in their own ways. Now I know... And knowing is half the battle!
...G-I JOOOOOE! :D
GET BACK TO HUMONGOUS ENTERTAINMENT LONGPLAYS MR!!!
Jk, awesome to see one of my favorite longplay channels on one of my favorite game review channels
“Knowing is half the battle”
GI Joooooooooeeee!!!!!
Damn you beat me to it 4 years ago.
The games at 2:28 and 2:34 literally snapped my brain into full nostalgia mode. I remember sitting at the library with my now best friend in kindergarten playing these games and i haven't had that memory until i saw this video. My head feels all tingly now.
That is awesome, happy to bring on some flashbacks!
Ah, yes...so many memories. We had a few of these games and others.
Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd..then a few others. Like Spanish and the Writing and Creativity Center.
...I was homeschooled until 2nd grade.
I was homeschooled from 1st to 8th grade, which is a huge reason I know so many of these games myself :)
+Lazy Game Reviews these games were literally my young life besides playing the living crap out of rollercoaster tycoon
I was homeschooled until college.
i found out about it because of the 3d multiplayer virtual world jumpstart XD played that game since it came out.. they updated it though and everyone is quitting that game bc they made the characters look retarded.. just look up Jumpstart on youtube and watch their vids. they even had madagascar in it for a while. nice game
I feel so old hearing that first grade jumpstart game
me to lol
Man, I loved playing Jump-Start games when I was a kid. I know I used to have Pre-K, Kindergarten, Numbers, Spelling, Spanish, and Toddlers. There's a few missing since I don't exactly remember all of them.
IMO it's kinda sad to see that JumpStart's more focused on some kiddie MMO game now. But I'll always remember them for their old glory days of the 90s.
Jumpstart 1st Grade gives me such nostalgic feels. I played it so much as a kid. I may or may not still play it occasionally
NGL 1st Grade is the only reason why I have a VM on my computer
These games actually started getting pretty fun and if I recall correctly 3rd grade and 5th Grade: Science Edition were the two best in the series! I believe one of em had an evil girl classmate who wanted to make the planets revolve around HER. I'm not even joking, but they were actually great for small fun learning on the side between kinder and 3rd grade. That's right, I was such a badass I was playing the 3rd grade level game in the 1st grade, just like my reading level was at a NINTH GRADE. Step back everyone, I almost forgot how hardcore I am.
Cluefinders was my favorite edutainment pc game. I have especially fond memories of grade 4. I used to just play it for fun over & over.
me too. :D
Squall338 Cluefinders came MUUUUUUCH later than JumpStart. Two entirely different edutainment era's/decades. There's definitely some enjoyable CF games though.
Holy fuzz bucket! Watching this just opened some deep recessed crevice in my mind...I used to play these Jumpstart games as a kid! Specifically 3rd Grade.
I was pretty shocked by it back then, it was actually genuinely GOOD! And it played like a Point'n'click adventure game!
It had a retro sci-fi setting, a cool robot main character, surprisingly good voice acting, and the plot (Yes, it has one) involves using your master's time machine to travel through a borked up timeline in an attempt to fix it!
So...If any of you guys/gals reading this have kids, I seriously recommend picking up Jumpstart 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain. One of the only edutainment games I can recall actually having fun whilst learning.
Thanks for that shot of nostalgia, Clint!
Would love to see a review of Jumpstart 3rd Grade, if you're doing more edutainment stuff. 4th, 5th, and 6th apparently are quite good as well, though I never played them.
Haunted Island is surprisingly scary for a kids' game.
I agree with ya Hero
I remember growing up with the Jump Start games, all the way up to the third grade one. I pretty much played these at home and sometimes at school, when I wasn't playing Pokemon. It's pretty neat to see this series covered on the show. Thanks for the childhood memories, Clint.
The irony is strong with this one.
Apparently this video age-restricted.
At least it was when I first opened the video.
I grew up on the Jump Ahead series (or 8 of them) I still have them in my bedroom x)
I was so contented just doing the same things over and over...
Well that was a nostalgic episode I remember playing the 1st grade one in computer class when i was a wee lad right when I heard the song It's FRAANNNKKKY MY mind exploded into a nostalgic overload.
WOAH!!! Jump Start First Grade! I haven't remembered that in years. I would play it for hours. It was a lot of fun. You better believe I collected every damn milk cap. I think my favorite games was giving the kids all those weird food combinations, but my dad always made me play the vending machine one because I was bad with change. I'd love to find it and play it again just for the nostalgia. Thank you LGR! I don't know if I would have remembered this without you. This is why you are my favorite youtuber, hands down FAVORITE!
I played First Grade for ages, that game is super addictive. Now all that music is stuck again in my head, I just know I'll be hearing it in my sleep DX
This truly made my YEAR, seeing this. I grew up with the Jump Start series through third grade; so many fond memories.
the sound at 3:25 sent me straight back to my childhood wtf
Could you do Jumpstart 3rd Grade Adventures? That was my all time favorite Jumpstart game
Yes! Jumpstart 3rd grade was awesome, with the robot and the whole mad scientist theme.
Takes forever to complete the game 100%, but man it was great
Botley Vs Penny!
Oh man, I remember playing Jump Start Kindergarten when I was four! The nostalgia! Later on (around 7) I came across a copy of First Grade, but for whatever reason didn't like it as much. Mr. Hopsalot all the way!
The other edutainment game I remember playing was this one Reader Rabbit game where you had to save a play of some sort. I don't remember the exact name, but I remember it being pretty good!
Ohhhh my gosh, Jumpstart First Grade was my JAM! I played it a little before, during, and welllll after first grade. Had both the 1995 and 2000 edition games, but I think the Classic ‘95 edition is most memorable. I used to always laugh during the coin change vending machine game when the machine would say “Error: You have too much money” because, especially out of context, that just seemed hilarious to little me. Another memory was of one of the story books that had this amazingly bad Aussie accent read the rhyme “Vegemite, Vegemite, we eat Vegemite. Come and I’ll sail ya/ down to Australia”, that gave me a chuckle too. And I loved the music throughout! I think during the pizza mini game there was a version of the overture to Barber of Seville, crazily enough I’m an opera singer now so it’s really cool to look back on the many ways opera music first came into my life!
My first nostalgic video of LGR, played the first grade game and i had alot of fun with them, thanks for putting me to alot more nostalgia which i love so much :D
I never had any of the main jumpstart games, but when i was a kid i had jumpstart animal adventure which from what i remember was all about what kinds of animals there were and where they lived and such. One of the things i remember about it was this one minigame about ants were you could cut the leaves into different shapes.
mmmm... strawberry stringbean jello salad
That picture... My eyes...
I had Jumpstart 1st Grade, 3rd grade, and Typing. I played the 4/5/6grade games at other kids houses, during play dates. I miss these games. Jumpstart a typing was the best one, that’s the one I miss the most!
OMG this game made me smart lmao. I only remember doing the cooking parts, but watching this video made all the memories come rushing back!! I was like 3 or 4 lol
A retrospective about Jumpstart like this video feels like it would've been made in the past few years. Was surprised to find that you made this in 2014
Ok, I'm legit tearing up right now.
THIS!!! This was my childhood and I all but forgot about this until I came across this video! Thanks, LGR! Now this makes me want to find this game online and play it just for the nostaglia!
P.S. I think that voice is hilarious, as well. Which, strangely enough reminds me of Bob Ross...
I remember when I was a kid playing these games... so much nostalgia. I think it's what created my love for gaming today.
Omg I remember this, I'm 17 now and when I was 4 I used to play this, so glad I found this video, forgot the games name :D
This is such a throwback for me, I used to play these all the time when I was younger. So even the game covers bring back memories. Seeing the games start up and especially seeing the cashier game and baking game.. The nostalgia is insane here.
On a side note, this reminds me of Millie's Math House or Sammy's Science House which also featured random things you can click on just for the fun of it.
I love this video simply because I have vague memories of Jump Start First Grade that are always stirred up. The cafeteria and metal detector scenes in particular just stir some vague recollections in me.
Ok, if you ever see a rabbit turning his head 180 degrees, call Max Von Sydow: you need an exorcist
Yes LGR, as a person that would have been 3 years old around the time this game first came out, I enjoyed it significantly, it was the most popular game in the whole school. it is no exaggeration to say I have grown up with the series, playing each game every grade I graduated. I think one of the things that made it so appealing at first sight was that you could click everything. A staple in the franchise.
please do more!
i remember this, i still have problems spelling wierd... weird.
My Kids grew up on the Jump Start series. 1st grade was one of their favorites. Hearing that song gives me a sense of tramatic nostalga.
My entire childhood in video, this brings back so many memories. For some reason I skipped the kindergarten game, but I got the first grade CD-Rom just before I actually started kindergarten. Then every year I’d get the next one, but I’d be one year ahead of the curve! I’d also take the CDs into the car and bug my mom with the music, while I’m sure she was just trying to enjoy having a nice sports car she had to hear this cheesy stuff… oh well. Windows 95 was freakin cool.
I had both First grade and Second grade, in Swedish. In the Second grade the school mascot was a frog, so you know, the massacre clearly continued. Also he had a super sassy friend who was a... I want to say lightning bug? Some kind of insect.
Got any Magic School Bus games, they bring back memory's.
I love this video and will forever dearly miss your edu-tainment month. This is the vid that finally got me to sub. Love your work, Clint!
Oh my god. This brings memories. So many disks to break as a little kid...so little time.
Please please please PLEASE review more of these! They're nostalgic for so many
Jump Start 3rd grade was so good. You should really check it out if you haven't!
LOL I never beat it either and yeah Polly was a damn brat xD
I never beat it because the game kept crashing ):
i loved that game but my sisters broke it. :( they break everything!
Dude, thanks so much for this. The Jump Start games (1st through 3rd grade) and all of the Humongous Entertainment games were a MASSIVE part of my childhood, in fact, Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon was literally the first game I ever played on a PC. Would love to see a retrospective of the Humongous Entertainment games.
I don't think kids would like this now days because it doesn't have hyper-realistic graphics that require a super-computer to run.
...I think you've mixed up "kids aged 5-7" with "graphics snobs"
There's a difference?
Matrilwood
...Uh, yes.
misosoup Tis hard to tell when the latter ACT like 5 year olds.
Matrilwood Allllright.
I remember playing a ton of edutainment games as a kid and jump start was probably the first of those games. I played the one where Frankie got shrunk down to the size of a bug and you'd collect either bones or badges from playing games with the other characters.
This series was my childhood
Brings back a lot of memories seeing that Jump Start 1st grade. I was really into the Jump Start games when I was a kid.
I played the fuck out of that entire franchise as a kid
My children used the later version of Jumpstart. Now you can go to a webpage for extra activities too. Oh and they also will try to get your to buy the next grade up with on-line activities via email. I agree with you it is a excellent series and I didn't know they were around that long..wow. Thanks for the awesome review...
The youngster-that-looks-like-the-typical-kid-that-takes-pogs-way-too-seriously looks like a young version of Duke Nukem.
Oh my god, the 1st grade one was my first Jump Start game as a child and I remember all those things! Never realized how oddly shaped the dog's hands were at that vending machine tho...
MY CHILDHOOD
I grew up playing those games as a kid. I really like that hamster who said the French fries line you enjoy and the crazy stuff that happens when you click on things. I mostly like the Jumpstart 2nd Grade soundtrack which included songs that ranged from very good to very cheesy, but they are really enjoyable and catchy to listen to.
I played the first grade game ALOT as a kid.... Plus the kindergarten game :) I loved them i could play them for hours
WOW THE MEMORIES!! I grew up with both these games. I always had lots of fun with them. And i think these were the games that pretty much gave me english basics and helped me out a lot in school at the time (i live in Venezuela, we speak spanish here)
Thank you LGR for reviewing these games :) loved this, keep it up!
I actualy remember the First Grade version! I would always ignore all the other games in favor of the sticker/art game.
And I knew Frankie was up to something, so it's no suprise he killed that Rabbit, the creep.
Also I remember two other edutainment games that I can't name. One was a 'haunted' theamed one, it ran on Mac, was realy pretty and atmospheric and the villian was this witch who looked like the sister of the one in Conker.
The next one was actualy a series that also ran on mac. It was about this group of kids who went arround the world solving assorted educational puzzles in exotic areas. The two my school had were placed in the Amazon and in Egypt. I remember getting to the end of the amazon one, all the other kids gathered arround the computer and we all worked together to beat the last level!
If anyone knows these games please say, I'd love to re-live this bit of nostalgia.
the game with the witch is the 4th grade installment of Jump Start. I only saw a demo of it. That game also runs on Windows.
I remember being the big kid on the block because I played both the first and second grade games when I was in kindergarten.
dukethedj
this stuff was serious business for us as kids lol :D
Oh my God. I had a nostalgia attack when you booted up Jump Start 1st Grade and that sound played. I loved that game as a kid, and I would even play it now just because of all the great memories I had with it.
I also played Freddie Fish, but Jump Start was the series I played the most, up to Jump Start 3rd Grade.
I remember playing jumpstart back in kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade. The thing is this was in 2000 i believe.
Oh my god, I played a few JumpStart games when I was a kid so often I still remember their voices and the songs and the minigames...
When I was little I used to play games involving a little purple car named put-put I think his name was? Did anyone else play that?
peanutbuttergamer has a video or two of put-put on his channel if you're interested.
Frio Hur
Thank you:D
I remember having a jump start game that was for grade 6+ history where you'd travel through time with a robot to save the world from a scientist's daughter by restoring history to its original form. I loved that game so much
My mom made me play these when I was too young to understand what I was doing
5:37 The glop monster that pops out when you mess up that game used to make me cry as a kid
You should look at the Kid Pix series!!! :D
I played Jump Start 1st Grade when I was 7........that was 21 years ago.
I remember loving that cafeteria game.
Good times, good times.
Do jumpstart 3rd game thats the best one
i loved jump start 1st grade as a kid, it was so surreal watching you review it i still know every word and note of every song
OMG that black IBM CRT behind you brings back memories of high school!!! They set all systems to a low frame rate... It gave me such horrible eye pain!!!
Yet again I'm reminded why I subscribe to this channel! You seem to have an almost superhuman ability to find so many of my dearest childhood memories and bringing them forth. Had the first grade and third grade editions of these games as a kid and me and my siblings adored them!
And yes that first grade jingle will stick with you for years, even in swedish! ("första första första klass, första för...GAAAH!").
Keep up the good work man your channel rocks!
That's the darndest thing - Jump Start Kindergarten seems a bit more technically advanced than I remember it. Then again, 4/5 year old me was understandably addled and relatively bad at forming memories, but I seem to remember it looking... worse than it did in this video. Also, I could apparently make the game crash into a DOS prompt where it would output colorful 80x25 garbage onto the screen... which might've been me figuring out how to alt-tab back into Windows 95.
I was almost certainly overexposed to Jump Start back in the day, having played entries in the series up from Kindergarten to 6th grade!
I grew up playing jumpstart, at least grades 1 2 and 3. I miss you, jumpstart. Ah the simpler days.
3:23 THAT AUTOPLAY MENU SOUND THO. I immediately remembered like a bunch JumpStart games I had with that one noise alone. I never had these two games though, I had so many others for so many other grades and areas of study. It was amazing.
GOSH, I love your videos. This is my childhood, right here. Played them from kindergarten all the way to the 6th grade version, and I was homeschooled, so got plenty of playtime with them (sometimes I sing that 1st grade theme out of nowhere, hehe). I still own 3rd, 5th and 6th grade, I believe! My favorite was definitely 5th grade, which played a lot like a crime/mystery visual novel outside of the educational mini games. I really regret giving up the others, especially 3rd grade and the JS Typing one, which I owe so much to for my 40wpm skills. :D
Omg. The nostalgia is so real on this one. Hearing all the sounds gives me a weird deja vu. Thanks for making this!
I always loved the autoplay menu sound and intro for JumpStart First Grade.
You might be pleased to know that Hopsalot was brought back in later JumpStart titles
Jump start first grade was my absolute favorite. Besides jump start Spanish of course
For educational games, I had a couple Jump Start, a few Reader Rabbit and a few random ones like Zoombeanies Logical Adventure and some other one with a frog or cricket or something as the protagonist (obviously that one made an impression on me) But then I had a lot of the "Junior Adventures" games, like Freddy Fish and PuttPutt, as well as a couple Pajama Sam and Spy Fox.
Then throughout late elementary school through Middle school I got into simulation games like Tropico, Anno 1602 (my favorite), Locomotion, and SimCity. Now I play mostly simulation games and RPGs, but I'm also branching out into FPSs and strategy games. I'm a weird kid (even though i'm 19, I'm definitely not an adult yet...)
Man I remember this. First grade, I had when I was a kid. I think I had kindergarden too, but first grade was so much more fun. The dog had such a doofy voice in Norwegian. I always loved the cantina minigame. Guess I was always set up for good math skills. Ah. The good old days. I wonder if the CD is in some obscure packing box. It was completely translated too. Like, the coins in the vending machine game was made into Norwegian coins.
And pogs were super popular when I grew up too. Though I don't know if they were POG pogs, as much. Those more cardboard-y with the flap and the staple. I remember those. They were terrible to play with. So no one did!
The jump start series has a LOT of interesting games and some are still even fun today (yeah i know that sounds weird from a 21 year old but hey nostalgia attacks in interesting ways)
Holy shit. I've been watching all your vids lately, and for some reason your channel really made me wanna play that "Jump Start 1st Grade (+ 2nd and 3rd)". Haven't played em in years, even though I've kept googling for the norwegian version "Lek & Lær" for a while without even finding a single picture.
And then after many months, I realize you've actually uploaded this. Thanks man.
Still relevant.