Category - You Don't Know Jack

Giant Bomb is reporting the return of this great series within the next three months. If you have never played this game, you are missing a great sarcastic twisted version of a trivia game. I loved this game in college and the screw was a great way to stick it to your friends. Which was your favorite version?

Great game-- not positive there's a place for this game anymore. Maybe there is, but I wonder if there's a reason that the series got abandoned so long ago.

I don't see why there wouldn't be a place for it. It's a pretty simple trivia game. Perfect for the casuals while being equally engaging to us hardcores. I used to play YDKJ3 with my dad all the time, and we're definitely on opposite sides of the gamer spectrum. He plays Windows Solitaire. That's the extent of his gaming habits.

Great game-- not positive there's a place for this game anymore. Maybe there is, but I wonder if there's a reason that the series got abandoned so long ago.

I am not sure... it could be that there were twelve different versions of the game within a rather short time. I think that they beat the golden goose to death and then tried to bring it back to beat again...

I loved the first game in this series, but the later versions went to very, very crude humor, and I found it very off-putting.

The original had a very deft touch with its jokes and "advertisements" (sort of an early version of the silly radio ads you get in GTA3+), but later ones got very leaden and unfunny, going for shock value instead. The questions were still good, but I was so repulsed by the low-grade humor that I stopped buying the series.

I would buy a new YDKJ game in a heartbeat, if it was for a console and had online play.

Jayhawker wrote:

I would buy a new YDKJ game in a heartbeat, if it was for a console and had online play.

I'm pretty sure all this is going to happen.

And I think the success of 1 vs. 100 on XBL showed the world (most importantly Jellyvision) that there is indeed a place for this kinda thing.

My favorite part of that series was the Zena Warrior Princess spoof commercial at the end of YDKJ3, I believe.

Xbox Live using the Big Button Controller from Scene-It. What do I have to do, to make this happen?

So excited I posted twice. Move along, nothing to see here.

I only owned one or two of them, but the one that really sticks in my mind was called, I think, You Don't Know Jack: The Ride. I have absolutely no recollection of why it was called "The Ride," but what I do remember was that it came with an audio CD filled with the goofy little skits and mock advertisements found in the game. Funny, funny stuff--I've got it loaded onto iTunes, and it still finds its way onto my iPod from time to time.

Anyway, if they can bring more of that humor into a future game, I'd be interested.

Tigerbill wrote:

Xbox Live using the Big Button Controller from Scene-It. What do I have to do, to make this happen?

Absotively! I'd love to put those controllers back to use for something worthwhile, and You Don't Know Jack would be a perfect candidate.

The 360 would just need an easier way to beat the timer on a Tickerpliss Restroom...

Am I the only one who watched the (very) short-lived You Don't Know Jack TV show? It was hosted by Paul Reubens and was actually really hilarious.

At least, that's how I remember it.

Tigerbill wrote:

Xbox Live using the Big Button Controller from Scene-It. What do I have to do, to make this happen?

Yep, I've been wanting the same exact thing. In fact I was going to do it with XBCD, a USB 360 receiver dongle, and an HTPC. I just never got around to getting Scene-It.

Mytch wrote:

...the one that really sticks in my mind was called, I think, You Don't Know Jack: The Ride. I have absolutely no recollection of why it was called "The Ride," ...

It was called The Ride partly because you took a ride in an elevator to different category "floors." It also "took you for a ride" and would intentionally screw you over. One of the great things about it was that it brought back all of the previous hosts and who you got depended on what floor you were on at the time.