JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain/Pre-release and Unused Content

This is a list of pre-release and unused content from JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain. They were only used during the E3 1995 event at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Classroom Prototype
A trailer for the game from KnowledgeLand contains a pre-release image of Botley meeting the player in the 3rd Grade Schoolhouse.

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Unused Polly Shot
The JumpStart website circa 1996 included this shot of Polly in her father's secret chamber. The equivalent shot in the final game has Polly posed differently and an image on the monitor.

Incidentally, the back cover of JumpStart Summer Vacation Activity Book for 3rd Grade included an image of Polly that was clearly derived from this unused shot.

Ms. Winkle/TransQuizzer Prototype
One of the game's digital manual images depicts an early design for Ms. Winkle and the TransQuizzer.

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Unused Mystery Mountain Design
An unused graphic depicting what appears to be an early design of Mystery Mountain appears in the game's files.

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Unused Music Hall Door Background
The file MD001.RSC contains an unused version of the background for the music hall door.

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Time Machine Prototype
The JumpStart website circa 1996 included this image of Mort as one of the Missing Robots. In the final game, Cosmo-Bot is the robot retrieved from Poland, 1531.

Kitchen/Polly Screen Prototype
A trailer for the game from KnowledgeLand contains a pre-release image of Polly communicating with Botley via a screen in the kitchen. Mort is completely absent, and both the appearance of the screen and Polly are somewhat different.

First Floor Prototype
A trailer for the game from KnowledgeLand contains a pre-release image of Botley on the first floor.

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Basement Landing Graphic
A simple graphic saying "Basement Landing" appears in one of the resource files. It is presumably a placeholder graphic, but its purpose is unclear.

Progress Report
A pre-release image that appeared in the JumpStart Preview of the Progress report depicts the chart with several differences from the final release.

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Christopher Blake Williams' Website
The website of Christopher Blake Williams includes samples of his work, which includes some JumpStart 3rd Grade backgrounds that in some cases differ substantially from the final game.