“The ride-height requirement on virtual worlds is about to move down a few inches. Knowledge Adventure, the maker of kids' educational game software JumpStart, plans Monday to begin selling virtual world software for 3- to 5-year-olds. The software, called JumpStart Advanced Preschool World, will encourage kids to learn their ABCs by playing games in a 3D version of the beach or a jungle, with heavy use of voice and images instead of text. And it will give young ones their first taste of creating and decorating an avatar.”

CNET News.com, May 2008

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“A series of three products [JumpStart World] for kindergartners, first graders and second graders is brilliantly melding the gaming world and education.” 

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“To qualify as a primo piece of educational software, a title should offer many and varied academic activities, plenty of play-oriented pursuits, incentives to spur and reward achievement and all the interactive trimmings — cool characters, great 3-D graphics and snappy sound effects. JumpStart World Kindergarten aces all those tests and do the extra-credit assignment as well: addressing the been-there/done-that problem that plagues parents' pocketbooks.”

Houston Chronicle, July 2007

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“Something new is happening in children's educational software and it's very exciting. After years in development, Knowledge Adventure has rolled out JumpStart World Kindergarten, a personalized 3-D gaming world full of learning games and fun activities that are constantly changing.”

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“A new form of edutainment software has arrived in the form of JumpStart World, an educational theme park for Windows computers that can replenish itself with new content.”

NY Times, April 2007

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