JumpStart Kindergarten Reading
JumpStart Kindergarten Reading is an educational title aimed at four to seven year olds. The game features a Rabbit called Hopsalot. He's on holiday from school and wants to find the treasure buried in his…
JumpStart Kindergarten Reading is a point-and-click developed by Knowledge Adventure, released 11 November 1996 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What JumpStart Kindergarten Reading is
JumpStart Kindergarten Reading is a point-and-click game developed by Knowledge Adventure and released in 1996. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
JumpStart Kindergarten Reading is an educational title aimed at four to seven year olds. The game features a Rabbit called Hopsalot. He's on holiday from school and wants to find the treasure buried in his carrot patch. He has six relatives each of which has a clue so, with the help of the pupil, off he goes. Each visit is in two parts, for example visiting Granny in the frozen north starts with a request to click on all the items beginning with a specific letter to defrost them. There's usually around half a dozen items on the ground of which four match the specified criteria. Once this task has been completed the pupil goes to an ice hockey practice session. Here a letter is shown on the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the JumpStart series
JumpStart Kindergarten Reading is the fifth of 37 entries we hold in the JumpStart series. It arrived 8 months after JumpStart 2nd Grade. The next entry was JumpStart Adventures: 3rd Grade - Mystery Mountain in 1996.
What it launched against
JumpStart Kindergarten Reading launched on 11 November 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Twisted Metal 2.
Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Twisted Metal 2.
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