This is one of the two JumpStart games I owned as a kid. Let's see if I have an easier time with it as an adult! ============================== JumpStart Classic Playlist — • JumpStart Classic! ============================== Either of the two following browser extensions will let you use over three dozen channel emotes for free: ☆ 7tv — ☆ BetterTTV — Keep up with me off-stream: ☆ My Discord Server — / discord ☆ Twitter — / pegasiswhovian ☆ Bluesky — ☆ Mastodon — ============================== I'm part of an official-unofficial pony streaming group called TwitchTrot! Here are some links to our stuff — ============================== ☆ Profile Pic, Emotes, Banner, and Member Badges by MAWBomb — ☆ PNGTuber by ModularPon — / modularpon ☆ Pog Emote by Funny Jo — / @thatfunnyjo ============================== ☆ CPU — Intel Core i9-10850K @3.60GHz ☆ GPU — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ☆ Motherboard — ASRock Z490 Pro4/ac ☆ RAM — SPECTRIX D41 DDR4 x4 (64.0 GB) ☆ SSD — Crucial P1 1TB ☆ Microphone — Blue Yetti X ============================== JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective is a grade-based JumpStart game made by Knowledge Adventure in 1997. It was later re-released on August 26, 1998, with the help icon added at the sign-in screen when you click on the help icon at the sign-in screen when Jo says, "Type your name here." The game is intended to teach a full fifth-grade curriculum. Throughout the game, set in the fictional city of Hooverville, the player assumes the role of a fifth-grade detective named Jo Hammet and thwarts the schemes of the evil Dr. X, who plans to detonate bombs all over the city. After Jo wakes up from a horrible nightmare, she finds out that her television isn't working. She later learns on the radio that Dr. X blew up the television station, although no one was hurt. She boards the school bus with her skateboard that she keeps with her at all times. She and her class go on a field trip to the local art museum, and while there, the museum janitor's nephew, Martin, bumps into Jo Hammet, drops his glasses, and suddenly gets taken away by some thugs. After Martin's kidnapping, a talking rat named B. F. Skinny suddenly shows up at the museum and gives Jo a note from Martin. After decoding the message hidden in the crossword puzzle on the note, Jo discovers Martin's location. After Jo meets up with Martin, he explains that he is being held hostage by Dr. X, a scientist who became malicious after an experiment gone wrong. He now seeks to destroy factories and power plants to get revenge on them for cutting his research funding. Martin instructs Jo to use his glasses to read the minds of Dr. X's henchmen. The henchmen have special octopi on their heads that allow them to communicate telepathically, and by deciphering the meaning in their telepathic conversations, Jo will be able to figure out which site in Hooverville Dr. X is currently targeting and how to safely get to the bomb. This begins a series of missions to find out which site in Hooverville is presently being targeted, what items will be needed to get to the bomb, and finally defusing the bomb at the site. The game's conclusion takes place at the Boulder Canyon Dam. Jo finds out that Dr. X kidnapped Martin and his uncle and blew up the pumping station, raising the water pressure substantially so that blowing up the dam would result in a massive flood of water that could destroy the entire city. Jo Hammet then travels to the dam and pulls a lever that controls a gate that will divert the water away from the city. As she rescues Martin and his uncle, Dr. X reveals himself and claims he is victorious, unaware of Jo's interception of his plan. After freeing Martin and his uncle, Jo makes her escape as the bomb detonates, and the water is diverted away from the city just in time. In the game's epilogue, Jo Hammet becomes famous for her valiant efforts, and Dr. X is not seen or heard from again, leaving it unknown when he will strike next. ============================== #JumpStart #MLP #Furry
