User blog:Bluecake/1998 Family Software Catalog

This is just something I bought on Ebay at least a few months ago. As the title would imply, it's a software catalog from 1998. Some parts of the catalog cover JumpStart games, but it also features other series like Math Blaster and Fisher-Price games. Recently I got around to scanning some of the pages (particularly for some of the artwork).

Here's the cover:



And here's a two-page spread for the JumpStart series:



I cropped some of the artwork that appears here and uploaded it to a few character galleries. Two of the illustrations in the spread are of CJ and Edison, and they might be unique to this catalog. They're both based off of JumpStart 2nd Grade specifically, but I don't remember seeing these illustrations in any JumpStart 2nd Grade promotional artwork before this.



Then there's an illustration of Casey and Eleanor in a plane, which also appears on a JumpStart Preschool Deluxe release containing JumpStart Preschool (1995) and JumpStart Pre-K. Here's the illustration:



And here's the case it appeared on:



The catalog also contains descriptions for most of the JumpStart games released in or prior to 1998. I actually wasn't planning on uploading those, necessarily, because at a glance they seemed very similar to the JumpStart Previews that appeared on various discs in the late 90s. There also wasn't any other notable artwork besides the images from that two-page spread. However, if other people are interested, I can try adding scans of the catalog's game descriptions as well. Feel free to let me know what you think.