JumpStart 1st Grade Reading/Reading for First Graders Walkthrough (Puzzle 1)

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Ayup. It's another one of these. Here is a game I kinda-sorta had as a kid. The reason I say such is because, well, it wasn't really "my" game as much as it was my sister's. It was bought for her initially, and she's two years older than me, so I was too young to really understand it at the time. By the time I got old enough to play it, I don't recall liking it a whole lot. Apparently she did though, because I believe she actually sat through the whole game and beat it at least one time. None the less, it still brings me back a bit of nostalgia and I do think it's an alright game. Not one of the more memorable ones though. This game was originally released as "JumpStart 1st Grade Reading", which is the version you see in this video. Later releases oddly retitled the game to "JumpStart Reading for First Graders" though. Not sure what obligated them to do that. The latter is what I had as a kid, but my original copy has long left my posession at this point. I'm not sure if there are any significant differences across versions of the game outside of the title, but from what memory serves, I don't believe they changed a whole lot. I dunno, maybe if one of you viewers has an eye for detail, you might see some new things. Although nowhere close to as necessary as it was for 3rd Grade, I will be splitting this into parts, for each of the four puzzles. In theory I could have made this a one-parter since I did the calculation and figured out the game runs close to five hours from start to finish, but I felt that was going to be too much trouble and probably not worth it. There are six activities to do, and at a minimum they will be capped at giving you two tickets. Since you need four, I figure the best way to go about this is to just play two games per puzzle piece and work my way through each of them as I go on. For this first puzzle I'm going to play all the games at Level 1, then for the second I'll do it at Level 2, and for the third and fourth they'll be at Level 3 to help keep things interesting. If you're going to ask about the songs, I'm going on ahead and saving those for the very end of this walkthrough. It would feel kind of strange to do those at the very beginning and I would like to have them all in one place. Now, as for the activities themselves... Fortune Teller: A fairly straightforward activity. You're given a reading and then you're asked questions based on it. You can go back through the text if you wish as well, which I demonstrated the second time I played the game in this video. Mighty Mallet: Basically a "piece two parts together" activity. Not too much else to say. Strong Dog: Ugh, I HATE this one. It just feels like it goes on forever when you don't skip things, and that music...oh gosh, that music is going to haunt my dreams. Who thought repeating the same five seconds worth of music was a good idea!? Anyhoo, it's a "find which words go together" puzzle. Not much else to say. Jungle Bowl: A spelling game. I decided to show what happened if the monkey got the coconut once, but other than that, straightforward. This one actually asked me to raise the difficulty late in the video, but as I said, I'm saving that for when I get to the second puzzle. Splatter-the-Batter: This one also seems like it goes on forever, though nowhere near to the extent that Strong Dog does. You're given a sentence and you have to find which word belongs in the blank. I guess what makes this one go on so long is because most of it is spent waiting. Pluck-a-Pearl: You're given a long or short vowel sound and you have to pick the first word that pops up with that sound. Lost and Found: I'll do what I can to show off the animations for this activity, though I know some people will get impatient about that. Also, is it strange that I really like the music for when you're unscrambling the sentence? That's all I have to say. I don't know when the next part will be up so don't even ask. Enjoy!