Activity Timestamps: 0:00 Title screen and sign-in 2:03 Classroom 2:17 Alphabet TV 7:13 Counting mice 7:52 Alphabet song (Voices All In Harmony) 9:16 Number blocks 10:33 Nesting dolls 12:07 Puzzles (I play every variation) 25:54 Coloring 30:34 Alfie the hamster 31:31 Picnic area (finding Alfie) 33:25 Sentence pictures 36:19 Bulletin board months 39:37 Roquefort's Pattern Blaster 42:40 Closet letters 43:46 Harvesting game 46:25 Watering game Boombox 49:01 Old MacDonald 51:04 With My Hands On My Head 53:18 I Am The Music Man 56:02 Five Little Monkeys 58:27 Clock 1:01:34 Alphabet blocks 1:02:20 Exit screen and credits ---- So, now that I have a proper setup to capture footage from my Windows 95 PC, here's my first walkthrough made with that machine. Jump Ahead: Starting School is the UK version of the American made computer game known as Jump Start Kindergarten. I've had a handful of these UK version of the early Jump Start games for a while, but with life getting in the way I never quite had the time to make a full gameplay of any of them until now.Activity-wise the game is identical to the original American version, but there are a good number of changes made for the audience of UK kids. Just like many other educational media released in this manner, all of the dialogue has been redubbed into localized accents, and terminology changed where needed. Z is consistently pronounced "zed", which meant they had to rather noticeably redub last bit of the alphabet song. The bulletin board also displays different monthly events where applicable, though this was done rather lazily. 2 of the alternate events are just reused assets from Mother's Day on a background of the school building, with the mum recolored to represent a teacher either saying goodbye or welcoming her students. The fireworks board is also naturally moved to November for Guy Fawkes Day, which replaces the US celebration of Thanksgiving. And they completely removed Hanukkah from the December board. Music-wise, the midi BGM is for whatever reason completely gone, or at least permanently muted. I'm not sure why, but I've tested the game with multiple configurations for my sound card and it still will not play any non-prerecorded music. The game's installer, unlike the US version, doesn't even ask you if your midi device is FM or GM, but the readme file included also claims that the midi music exists so, maybe someone smarter than me will eventually figure out what's going on with this. As far as non-midi music goes, the intro song has has its vocals redone with the reference to Kindergarten being changed to Starting School. The boombox activity, however, has completely different songs, most of which are public domain, to replace the original tunes found in the US version. The only ones that reuses animations from the original version is "With My Hands On My Head", which reuses the chalkboard drawing from the US version's "Anatomy" song, and "Five Little Monkeys", which uses edited frames from "Monkeys Playing Everywhere". The last two, "Old MacDonald" and "I Am The Music Man" both use animations consisting of clip art moving around the background windows, which in "Old MacDonald's" case aren't even properly synced up to the music.
