JumpStart Around the World

JumpStart Around the World is a game in the JumpStart series released in 2000. In this game, the player can travel around the world to various countries and collect souvenirs in a scrapbook.

Unused Graphics#

atw_sin.dcr contains an unused title screen image named "atw_ttl_bkgd". It displays an alternate title, "Around the World with the JumpStart Gang", and has a lighter background and different copyright text.

The Travel Agency Game has an unused variation of the bottom area of the screen. It says "Token Counter" instead of "Points", and the area where this is displayed is more to the right rather than centered.

Unused Audio#

atw_start.dcr contains a variation of the game's opening theme with no sound effects. The audio track is titled "ATW Theme 8/22 **** Take this sound out", indicating its intended removal. It goes unused in favor of a video that contains the same song with sound effects to match the onscreen animations.

A voice clip of Brady Bear saying "Your ticket costs four travel tokens." Goes unused since tickets cost three tokens at most.

Revisional Differences#

In 2003, the game was re-released as JumpStart Field Trip Adventure. There is actually a ton of unused content specific to this re-release. For context, the original JumpStart Around the World had different versions for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, which were released as separate discs. Each version had different main characters which resulted in differing graphics and dialogue, though the gameplay is virtually the same across all versions. The original release also intended for players to download expansion packs from the internet to unlock all of the game's content, with certain mini-games and countries only becoming available after downloading the necessary components.

The re-release actually includes all of the content for every grade level, even the expansion files which are no longer downloadable from the JumpStart website. However, by default the player is locked to second grade, and the screen for selecting a grade is disabled. Thus, only the second grade version is accessible normally, and all of the other grades' content goes completely unused as a result. However, if the game is hacked to re-enable the grade selection screen, all four versions are completely functional, as demonstrated here.

Original	Re-release