JumpStart ABC's/Pre-release and Unused Content

This is a list of pre-release and unused content from JumpStart ABC's. They were only used during the E3 1998 event at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Unused AutoRun Screen
The game's folder for the AutoPlay launch menu contains an alternative background. The unused background is derived from a standard design for JumpStart autorun screens in the late 90s. The final release's background uses artwork specific to this game.

Scrapped Responsibility Singalong
A preview for JumpStart ABC's and JumpStart Learning Games Phonics depicted a brief clip of a singalong sequence of the Responsibility song from JumpStart Preschool: Who Left the Juice in the Caboose?, which presumably would've appeared in the Band Stand Sing-Along activity. However, in the final release of JumpStart ABC's, Responsibility isn't listed with the other songs, and the digital manual makes no mention of it either. Despite this, the song is still listed in the credits, suggesting that a singalong sequence for it was originally planned, but got scrapped late into the game's development, for unknown reasons. Additionally, some box art advertises six songs at the Band Stand despite there only being five in-game, which may indicate that Responsibility was planned to be the sixth song.

One of the game's files supports this as well. "Lsa.dxr", which contains assets for the Band Stand activity, also contains an unused voice clip of Hopsalot saying "responsibility" (included below). This appears with the other voice clips of Hopsalot saying the names of the songs listed at the Band Stand, so it was presumably left over from when Responsibility was still planned to appear in the game.



Unused Main Menu Music
"Lmm.dxr", which contains assets for the game's main menu screen, contains an instrumental remix of the song "", which is named "train original" in the game files. It seems to have been intended to be used as background music for the main menu screen, but the final release uses an instrumental variation of Who Left the Juice in the Caboose? instead.



Character Changes
The game's digital manual image for the Pizza Palace activity depicts Casey with green eyes. In the final release, his eyes are black during this activity instead.

JumpStart Train Station Sketch
A sketch of the JumpStart Train Station activity appears in the file "LTS.dxr".