Except she sent the robot back to 1898, when radium was discovered, not to the 1920s when radium's toxicity became known. In the radium mission, Polly supposedly changed history so that people never realized that radium was poisonous.Also, these kids are shown wearing modern clothes rather than clothing accurate to 1891. James Naismith was a college teacher when he invented basketball, but the game shows him introducing basketball to elementary-aged children rather than the college students he actually taught.The ancient Olympians competed in the nude, but the game shows them clothed for obvious reasons.
Even if he didn't know the answers beforehand, he knows enough that stone-age humans didn't have televisions, vending machines were invented after coins, the boomerang was invented long before the postal system, the first wheel obviously couldn't have been a car steering wheel if it supposedly wasn't for locomotion either, ancient writings weren't done on word processors, and certainly humans must have understood the Earth was round long before they invented space travel.
Being rich, blonde, and snotty, Polly has all the usual indicators. Alphabet Soup Cans: Mandatory in a JumpStart game, right? Somewhat justified since it is Polly, a third-grader herself, who is trying to outsmart you.All Drummers Are Animals: The six-armed robot drummer, Bongobot.He explains to them that he was actually trying to get home sooner, but due to the changes she caused, including pogo sticks used as a mode of transportation, he was unable to do so until Bottley and the player fixed all the problems. When Professor Spark does return however, he puts Polly in her place and saves Bottley's robot life before Polly compels him to use the time machine.
Adults Are Useless: Zigzagged on the one hand, Polly has free reign of the mountain laboratories because her father went away on a business conference.You then bring that robot back to the present and begin work on the next one, until all of them have been rescued. There, you're given a quiz which links the items, in a six degrees sort of way, to the place in history where the robot was sent. Once you have all four items and enough points, you're permitted to enter the time machine room. For each robot, you have to complete a Fetch Quest, collecting Plot Coupons from the various science-fiction-themed Mini Games inside Mystery Mountain. There are twenty-five robots Polly has sent back in time, one for each question on her botched history quiz. With the help of Botley, a Robot Buddy who serves as Polly's Badly Battered Babysitter, you, the player, have to thwart Polly and Set Right What Once Went Wrong before the Delayed Ripple Effect will ( supposedly) set in. One day, while the Professor is out, Polly fails a history quiz at school and decides the solution is to use Daddy's Time Machine to alter history, thus making her absurd quiz answers correct. His daughter Polly is a Spoiled Brat who may be best described as a Diabolical Mastermind version of Veruca Salt. Professor Spark lives in a Raygun Gothic Elaborate Underground Base built inside the mountain of the subtitle.