Once all the Mission Clues have been collected, the user will still need to collect 1000 Invention Points in order to enter the Time Machine Mission Control. There are stairs and a tram to travel through three different floors.īotley, using his powerful sensory device, then determines which games need to be played in order to retrieve the needed Mission Clues. Polly then appears on a monitor to state which robot she has sent back in time for the question and to list the four Mission Clues that need to be found for the mission. Winkle poses a historical question of Polly and Polly gives a surreallistic and humorous answer. GameplayĮach of the game's twenty-five missions (one for each robot that must be rescued) begin with the user selecting one of Polly's questions from the TransQuizzer. The user can also enter the Time Machine Mission Control and view the 'robot roost' without acquiring the Invention Points that would otherwise be required, but the Wheel of Invention cannot be played nor can the Time Machine be entered. The storyline ends at this point, but the user can continue playing the Mountain's games for study purposes or for fun. Winkle decides to give her a quiz on Latin, which doesn't please Polly, as she's no good at Latin.
Winkle states that she can't give Polly a test with the same questions twice. Winkle, via a video monitor, agree to let Polly take the quiz again, though Ms. Unfortunately for Polly, it's at this point that her father arrives home from the Inventors' Convention. For the extra credit question, Polly said that the universe began with Botley (she calls this the 'Big Bot') and she therefore wants to send him all the way back in time to the Big Bang, which would cause him to be destroyed. Once all the robots are rescued, Polly reveals her ultimate plan to use Botley for the extra credit question, which more than makes up for the entire quiz. When the outside activity is finished, Botley takes out the toolbar called a 'utility belt' and puts it at the bottom of the screen. The doorbell is activated by the user who must repeat what was heard in order to get into the mountain or house as Polly calls it. He takes the user to Mystery Mountain and Polly appears on screen she talks to Botley about her failed History test. Botley comes hurling through the window and talks to the user about Polly. Once the user clicks on the TransQuizzer, the main storyline begins there and then. Certain objects within the classroom can be interacted with. The interior of the school on the hill is seen. The user signs his or her name and presses Enter or Return. PrologueĪ sign-in screen appears after the monitor has been activated. The goal of the game is to help Botley, the robot assigned to keep Polly under control, save the world by retrieving each of the twenty-five robots and bringing them back to the present.
To do this, she sends twenty-five reprogrammed robots back in time and, with her father conveniently away on a business trip, she takes over Mystery Mountain, the literal 'mountain mansion' where she and her father live. Set in a retro-futuristic universe, the game concerns Polly Spark, the bratty daughter of an apparently very wealthy inventor, and her attempt to alter history so that her inane answers to a history quiz she failed will be correct. It was later re-released as JumpStart Advanced 3rd Grade: Fundamentals. In 2000, it was released with JumpStart Adventure Challenge as a bonus disc. The original 1996 release of the game came with KnowledgeLand as a bonus disc. As the title suggests, the game is intended to teach a third grade curriculum.
Icon JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain is a JumpStart game that was made by Knowledge Adventure in 1996.
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