Chewing gum dates back much earlier, all the way to the Stone Age. It is true that the Mayans created chewing gum from tree sap, but they weren't the first to invent it. The game credits the Mayans for inventing chewing gum.
However, this actually has some controversy as to whether or not he deserved share that particular award - Becquerel is more known for observing the effect of radiation from Uranium. Henri Becquerel was also not acknowledged despite sharing the 1903 award with the Curies.Pierre and Marie Curie worked together to isolate radium, but Pierre is half-forgotten now due to Marie's status as the token female scientist. And as usual, there's no mention of poor Pierre Curie. Of course, she won them in 19, so she wouldn't have them yet in 1898. When history is put back on course, Marie Curie is shown wearing her two Nobel medals. 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.
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Artistic License History: The time-travel missions contain some errors:.Anti-Frustration Features: Click on enough wrong constellations in the observatory, and Botley will give away the correct answer.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. Anachronism Stew: Several of Polly's alterations don't go unremarked by Botley.However, a throwaway line from Botley indicates Polly is unpopular at her school. 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.