All-new versions of the best-selling JumpStart Preschool®, JumpStart Kindergarten®, JumpStart 1st Grade® and JumpStart 2nd Grade® provide game play tailored to each child's individual learning style

JumpStart Advanced™, the next generation of the original grade-based educational software series that has sold over 13 million units*, is now available from children's software leader Knowledge Adventure®. All-new versions of the best-selling, award-winning JumpStart Preschool®, JumpStart Kindergarten®, JumpStart 1st Grade® and JumpStart 2nd Grade® provide superior interactive game play tailored to each child's individual learning style.

Recognizing that there are many ways to learn and that children can use different intelligences to comprehend a skill or concept, the JumpStart Advanced™ series provides a personalized learning environment that suits how each child learns best. JumpStart Advanced™ introduces the "JumpStart All-Stars," seven friendly and familiar JumpStart characters who represent seven learning styles identified by education experts. The JumpStart All-Stars identify each child's personal interests, and provide cinematic tutorial lessons in captivating 3D that are adapted to their primary learning style to reinforce core educational concepts.

JumpStart Advanced Preschool™, JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten™, JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade™ and JumpStart Advanced 2nd Grade™ are immediately available in a Windows®/Macintosh® CD-ROM format at most major computer stores and mass-merchant chains nationwide for a suggested retail price of $29.99. For more information, customers can call (800) 545-7677 or visit www.jumpstart.com.

The JumpStart All-Stars, represent seven recognized learning styles: Hopsalot, the Math Whiz; Kisha, the Artist; Pierre, the Musician; Eleanor, the Reader; Casey, the Athlete; CJ, the Scientist; and Frankie, the Team Leader. As children play all-new learning games in each program, the best-matched All-Star character automatically provides personalized help and encouragement to core educational concepts using an approach that is most effective for the child. For example, Kisha, the Artist, may reinforce a lesson about the letter "A" by asking children to trace the letter on the computer screen with their finger, while Casey, the Athlete, may ask kids to form the shape of the letter with their hands.

When a child has difficulty understanding a particular concept, an animated walkie-talkie that is always accessible in the corner of the screen will automatically sound and call on the All-Star who matches their learning style to provide help in a way they learn best. Children can also choose to hear an explanation from the other All-Star characters to develop additional learning strategies.

Advanced Play Value with New Motivational Game Rewards
The JumpStart Advanced™ titles feature an enhanced reward structure with motivating new games that empower kids to create and express their creativity:

-- In JumpStart Advanced Preschool™, kids help Frankie organize an adopt-a-pet program and place seven baby animals in new homes. As kids successfully complete curriculum-based games in the JumpStart Preschool, they can earn toys, treats, grooming supplies and lullabies and care for their chosen pet. Once all four reward items are collected, the child can take the baby animal to its new family. As a thank you, the new family will send the child a postcard that they can add to their scrapbook.

-- In JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten™, players team up with Frankie and the JumpStart pals as they get ready for the wackiest, bumpiest, twirliest car race. As kids develop important kindergarten skills, they can earn scores of power boosters, such as super-stilt wheels, to customize their own crazy car and unlock five racing arenas. Loaded with arcade action, players will love zipping around colorful landscapes in a race against time to collect scattered treasures in the King's Castle, Jungle Adventure, Pirate's Isle, Candy Land and Sports Town. Players can compete against their JumpStart pal or play cooperatively with a friend in 2-player mode, and collect racing cup trophies with each race they win.

-- In JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade™, kids join Frankie and the JumpStart pals to get ready for the JumpStart Speed Scooter Tournament. While developing essential first grade skills, players can earn power-ups and trade them for cool scooter gadgets and crazy track tricks. Kids can decorate seven different tracks with their own art created in the paint module, as well as add tricks such as the lights-out zone and paint pits to design a zany course. When all the tricks have been added to a track, players can compete in the tournament and test-drive their scooter gadgets such as jumping frog legs, snowball throwers and painted rainbow bridges. The more gadgets kids collect, the more races they will win.

-- In JumpStart Advanced 2nd Grade™, players travel with CJ and Edison on top-secret missions to solve the mystery behind the strange pranks taking place in JumpStartville. In each of the five assignments, players must uncover multiple gadget pieces to activate Hopsalot's zany secret agent invention and undo Dr. O's weird tricks. As kids develop important second grade skills in exciting curriculum-based games, they can build a hose to wash off the mustaches painted on Mt. JumpMore, assemble a worm vacuum to clean-up the JumpStart Schoolhouse, and save CJ's island from sinking by developing a floatation device.

Knowledge Adventure, a studio of Vivendi Universal Publishing, has been a leader in kids interactive content for 20 years. The company develops and publishes top-selling PC and console-based multimedia software for kids to learn and play at four key developmental stages: infant to toddler, preschool to kindergarten, early learners and tweens. Knowledge Adventure's portfolio of interactive brands includes JumpStart®, Barbie®, Jurassic Park®, Butt-Ugly Martians®, Curious George® and Fisher-Price®. Whether designed to build curriculum skills, develop logic and problem-solving or provide just pure fun, Knowledge Adventure's kid-tested, "good-for-you" products create unique worlds of interactive discovery just for kids.

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JumpStart Advanced Preschool™, JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten™, JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade™ and JumpStart Advanced 2nd Grade™ are immediately available in a Windows®/Macintosh® CD-ROM format at most major computer stores and mass-merchant chains nationwide for a suggested retail price of $29.99. For more information, customers can call (800) 545-7677 or visit www.jumpstart.com.