JumpStart Kindergarten is a grade-based original classic JumpStart game developed by Fanfare Software and released by Knowledge Adventure in 1994. JumpStart Kindergarten was the first installment in the JumpStart series, as well as Knowledge Adventure's first curriculum-based product.
It was also re-released by Davidson & Associates in 1998 under the name Davidson's Learning Center Series: Kindergarten.
It was later replaced by an updated version of JumpStart Kindergarten in 1997.
Gus Goes to Cyberopolis is an educational game for children between three and eight. The player can explore six locations and trigger animations by clicking on items on screen. Gus' three buddies are hiding in each screen and speak/sing to the player when found. Each location additionally has an activity:
Subway: the player has to recycle a number of items by dragging them on the correct bin (aluminium, plastic, paper or glass).
Post Office: the player has to complete a partially written letter by dragging icons on the blank parts. There are no right or wrong choices.
Science Dome: creating a soil aquarium by choosing the container, gravel, dirt, plants and critters. This is a freeform activity without a set goal.
Aquarium: a concentration variant with sea animals.
Library: after spinning the globe, the player can click on a visible continent. Then a short factoid about a local animal is shown.
Gus's Diner: The diner is located in six countries (USA, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan) which can be chang
A video drug-like CD-ROM by Hideki Nakazawa, a leading expert in stupid CG. It's like watching the psychedelic screen move with a uni-uni, but this CD-ROM has a stupid mode that allows the poop to uni-uni and play with a special stupid brush.
Playtoons 1 - Uncle Archibald is one of a series of educational games which allow players to interact with a story, or create a story with the construction kit and the characters, backgrounds, and scenery from this game or from the other games in the series. This game features a cartoon character named Uncle Archibald.
QuizMania is an italian exclusive collection of minigames that takes place in a network of tv channels. The player will be introduced to the game itself and to all the mini-games by its only host Raul Cremona, which interprets different characters, one for each game plus the menu and a pirate television that will randomly appear during the gameplay.
The included games are
- TeleTre: A classic quiz with a question and three possible answers
- TeleIndovinelli: A riddle to resolve, where the only input for the player is for revealing the answer
- TeleAnagrammi: with a given word, create another word by mixing its letters
- TeleRebus: write the phrase by resolving a riddle with a drawing and some letters
- TeleLabirinti: multiple letters are arranged in a square formation. The player has to connect all of them to create a phrase
- TeleIntruso: find the word that doesn't fit with the other four
Hugo Hound's Vowel Sounds is a single-player game to help children learn vowel sounds.
The player chooses from long or short vowels, and there are four different question types. The player receives animated quizzes where they try to correctly identify the missing vowel in a word.
Though he was accused of being a murderer, the English 19th century photographer Edward Muybridge kept taking still photographs of man and animals in motion. The interactive CD-ROM “Bio-Morph Encyclopedia” by Nobuhiro Shibayama is based on plates of his photographs, but shows them from a different perspective.
The goal of this adventure is to save the beautiful Rachel from gangster boss Wild Bill as a private detective. The story takes place in the 20s of the last century and is quite impressive.
3-D Dinosaur Adventure is an educational game about dinosaurs by Knowledge Adventure. Featuring several mini-games and activities, as well as 3-D images using the included 3-D glasses, this edutainment game is fun for all ages!
It should not be confused with Dinosaur Adventure 3-D, also released by Knowledge Adventure in 1999, whose plot revolved around recovering dino-eggs from around Paleo Island.
Daisy Quest is an educational game intended for young children. The goal is to find the titular dragon Daisy in a magical game of hide-and-seek. While you explore the world, you come across various simple mini-games intended to test your knowledge of vowel and consonant sounds. When each mini-game is completed, a treasure will be collected which reveals part of Daisy's hiding spot. After all of the treasures have been collected, the player wins the game by finding Daisy at the revealed location.