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JumpStart
''JumpStart'' is an educational media franchise for children, consisting mostly of educational games, produced by Knowledge Adventure. The series is distributed as ''Jump Ahead'' in the United Kingdom. It originally consisted of a series of educational PC games, but has expanded to include workbooks, videos, iPad apps, and other media - including, perhaps most significantly, a massively multiplayer online game located at JumpStart.com, first launched March 10, 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JumpStart Passes 15 Million Session, Now Going Live )〕
==History==
The first JumpStart game, the 1994 version of ''JumpStart Kindergarten'', was released in 1994. From that time up to 1998, grade-based games were added to the JumpStart series: ''JumpStart Preschool'' and ''JumpStart 1st Grade'' in 1995; ''JumpStart Toddlers'', ''JumpStart 2nd Grade'', ''JumpStart 3rd Grade'', ''JumpStart 4th Grade (1996 version)'', and ''JumpStart Pre-K'' in 1996; ''JumpStart 5th Grade'' in 1997; ''JumpStart 6th Grade'' in 1998; and ''JumpStart Baby'' in 1999. Other games, which were either based on a single skill or a subject combined with a grade level, were also released during this time (circa 1997): ''JumpStart Kindergarten Reading'', ''JumpStart 1st Grade Math'', ''JumpStart 1st Grade Reading'', ''JumpStart 2nd Grade Math'', ''JumpStart Typing'', and ''JumpStart Spanish''. (In 2000, ''JumpStart Kindergarten Reading'' was renamed to ''JumpStart Reading for Kindergarteners'', ''JumpStart 1st Grade Math'' was renamed to ''JumpStart Math for First Graders'', ''JumpStart 1st Grade Reading'' was renamed to ''JumpStart Reading for First Graders'', and ''JumpStart 2nd Grade Math'' was renamed to ''JumpStart Reading for Second Graders''. Also, ''JumpStart Math for Kindergarteners'' and ''JumpStart Reading for Second Graders'' were released at this time.) Three games, ''JumpStart Spelling'', ''JumpStart Music'', and ''JumpStart Numbers'' (called "Learning Games" because they were somewhat more focused on arcade gameplay) were also released around this time.
Each of the original grade-based games contained its own setting and cast of characters, completely separate from all other JumpStart games (though occasionally characters would cameo in other grade levels' games), though ''JumpStart Pre-K'' is an exception to this rule, featuring the characters from ''JumpStart Preschool''. The games which were not solely grade-based each used a set of characters from one of the main grade-based games; the characters never mixed at this time, and as far as the grade-based-and-subject-based games are concerned, which set of characters featured in each game was quite logical (i.e. Frankie the dog appeared in ''JumpStart 1st Grade'', ''JumpStart Reading for First Graders'', and ''JumpStart Math for First Graders''). The games which were not solely grade-based often made updates to the character designs of the characters they featured; for example, in ''JumpStart 1st Grade'', Frankie the dog had cartoonish proportions and wore nothing but a blue collar; changes were made to his character designs in future games, including more normal proportions and a red vest.
From about 1998-2000, significant upgrades were made to several of the games (namely ''JumpStart Kindergarten'' in 1998, ''JumpStart Preschool'' in 1999, ''JumpStart 1st Grade'' in 2000, ''JumpStart 4th Grade'' in 2000, and ''JumpStart Toddlers'' in 2000; notably, the updates to ''Preschool'', ''Kindergarten'' and ''1st Grade'' were significant, but the games still had many similarities to their predecessors, while ''Toddlers'' and ''4th Grade'' were updated into entirely new games that did not even feature the same characters). Even for the games that weren't updated, new boxarts were devised.
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