User blog:Bluecake/Finnish JumpStart spin-off series

While looking at Finnish JumpStart releases, I came across something I definitely would've never guessed existed. Apparently, there's a whole series of games (for PC and Nintendo DS even) released in Finland that are essentially a spin-off of the JumpStart series. In Finland, the JumpStart games are released under the title "Alkupolku", so for example, JumpStart Kindergarten is called "Alkupolku Eskari".

So in Finland, Elävät Kirjat, the company that handled the distribution of the JumpStart products released by Knowledge Adventure, decided to launch a series of games called "Josefina Alkupolku", named for its new titular character Josefina. These games similarly focus on educational subjects like math, history, and so forth. The logo they use is even very clearly based on the JumpStart logo, having the appearance of a yellow ruler with a red arch over it.



I'm not saying this is something we need to cover on the wiki, I think the series' status as an official line JumpStart products is...debatable, especially since Knowledge Adventure played no part in it. But it is just one of those really interesting things, to me anyways. I wouldn't have imagined something like this even existed, so it's just kind of neat in that regard.