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You Don't Know JACK -- Get it for consoles, not PC. OP has more details.
Yo! Listen up brother, I got the word, it's out on the street and it must be heard. I aint talkin bout no pansy house-parties, this Mac and Cheese is deaf and tarty! Now you gotta get your punk-ass off the couch, and find this mac-and-cheese in a funky pouch. Cause when you're cutting my cheese, you'll feel so good. You'll be the number one homie in your gosh darned hood! Kick it! You bet your mother-freaking tush homie!
All I can remember is how absurd the show was, but other than that... I can't remember much.
I did used to play the game all the time as a youngin, though.
UK gameshow site Bother's Bar frequently looks at gameshows from other countries (with a vague theme of "so, could a British version work"?), and they did a pretty extensive transcription of one episode:
I have so many incredible memories of playing game after game of You Don't Know Jack with my best friend during middle school. Talk about sharp writing, I hope the original announcer comes back.
It's confirmed to be Cookie, the guy from Volume 3.
The Ride was easily my favorite, but they were all amazing games. I think I own nearly every one and they always get played at drunken get togethers ... hell, I think half the time we don't put names in just to see what the announcer would give us.
Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited November 2010
I believe they do with the caveat that the installers are 16-bit, which will not run under 64-bit flavors of Windows. (Someone can correct me since I don't have my discs on hand.) In which case, you could install on a 32-bit installation or virtual machine and copy the appropriate files over.
YDKJ is the only game I could get my family to play with me before Rock Band existed. We only stopped playing it every week because it got to the point where we all had 90% of the questions memorized.
I believe they do with the caveat that the installers are 16-bit, which will not run under 64-bit flavors of Windows. (Someone can correct me since I don't have my discs on hand.) In which case, you could install on a 32-bit installation or virtual machine and copy the appropriate files over.
AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
edited November 2010
I'm pretty excited for this, I loved YDKJ The Ride.
Hope it doesn't suck.
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited November 2010
Wow, this is one of those things you would've expected to have happened by now. Like as the premiere title to celebrate all platforms having an online-multiplayer option.
So what I'm saying is "Took them long enough, Jesus."
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NocrenLt Futz, Back in ActionNorth CarolinaRegistered Userregular
edited November 2010
It shouldn't. A couple years back, they did a weekly or so webshow (basically the demo as it is now with new questions every couple days). Had a good couple hundred episodes. Cookie even cried at the end when it was over and gave a few shoutouts to some of the high scorers, even calling out the top player 'WWEFanRulez' for his cheating (dude got the highest score by basically playing each game once, memorizing the answers, quitting during the Jack Attack, then replaying and hitting the answers as soon as the clock started ticking to get the highest score. Dude was getting $18~1900 an answer. Anyway, enough of that.)
Was going to go dig out my copy of Austin Powers: Operation Trivia and be all, "While these were good, we can't forget about the best one." Sarcastically, of course. Can't seem to find it though.
(No, I didn't pay for it. Got it free from beta testing it and most of the YDKJ games past #2 for Berkeley. Sad they're not around anymore.)
Did somehow find my old floppy version of Crystal Caliburn.
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There was a decent amount of it, but there was a bunch of other obscure trivia in there as well.
The general idea was that Dr. Evil stuck AP in a death trap, and to escape he has to play a shitty trivia contest ala Banjo-Kazooie called "Win, Lose, or Die."
...cripes, how the hell do I remember that? o_O
Rounds were fairly short in that they only had six questions, but some of the question types were longer. There was one question type that was a Chain, and would be doing a series of rapid-fire questions that were related to the previous one. There was a quasi-Dis-or-Dat called "Stop-'n'-go-go", which had you pick out the four correct answers and avoid the three fake answers, stuff like that.
Which doesn't sound that bad, exceeeeeeeeeeept they didn't get any of the original movie cast to read their one-liners, and the people who they got to replace them were reaaaaaaaaaaaaaly bad. And they'd re-use the same clip a lot. It was awful.
Oh, and it was only two players max.
It got panned in reviews almost universally (except for IGN, for some reason... ).
If I could find my copy, I'd try to LP it for a few rounds just so people could see how bad it was. (And there's no videos of it on YouTube for some reason.)
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There was a decent amount of it, but there was a bunch of other obscure trivia in there as well.
The general idea was that Dr. Evil stuck AP in a death trap, and to escape he has to play a shitty trivia contest ala Banjo-Kazooie called "Win, Lose, or Die."
...cripes, how the hell do I remember that? o_O
Rounds were fairly short in that they only had six questions, but some of the question types were longer. There was one question type that was a Chain, and would be doing a series of rapid-fire questions that were related to the previous one. There was a quasi-Dis-or-Dat called "Stop-'n'-go-go", which had you pick out the four correct answers and avoid the three fake answers, stuff like that.
Which doesn't sound that bad, exceeeeeeeeeeept they didn't get any of the original movie cast to read their one-liners, and the people who they got to replace them were reaaaaaaaaaaaaaly bad. And they'd re-use the same clip a lot. It was awful.
Oh, and it was only two players max.
It got panned in reviews almost universally (except for IGN, for some reason... ).
If I could find my copy, I'd try to LP it for a few rounds just so people could see how bad it was. (And there's no videos of it on YouTube for some reason.)
God, I remember seeing that game at E3, in the Sierra/Vivendi booth with a LOTR strategy game Orcs: Revenge of the Ancient, and the Babylon 5 space fighter game with new original actor footage.
According to Wikipedia, the German versions were just translated versions of the US ones whereas the UK one was a proper ground up localised version. I don't know if the US versions were on sale over here though.
come to think of it, it might not work in the new one
since it seems that the gibberish question isn't around anymore
there's no mention of it in the question types listed on the website, no evidence of them in screenshots, and, well, with all the console versions, they may have dropped typed answers entirely
...Oh, that's right, I was going to do that, wasn't I?
It's funny, I had actually recorded two games, but afterwards discovered it didn't actually record the sound. Will try to knock another one out soon.
EDIT: fffff, of course, try to record another one, and it records the sound from my mic on my computer instead of what I wanted it to do, so it's super-quiet. And split into seperate audio & video files.
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UK gameshow site Bother's Bar frequently looks at gameshows from other countries (with a vague theme of "so, could a British version work"?), and they did a pretty extensive transcription of one episode:
http://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?page_id=336
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I have tears in my eyes.
I liked the slam at Bucknell university.
It's confirmed to be Cookie, the guy from Volume 3.
Amazing games, can't wait for this bad boy.
YDKJ is the only game I could get my family to play with me before Rock Band existed. We only stopped playing it every week because it got to the point where we all had 90% of the questions memorized.
I AM SO EXCITED!
Well crap.
and they've confirmed that all the games they have for sale work on vista except vol1, vol2, and sports
windows 7 users can probably virtual machine them all fairly easily, though
Hope it doesn't suck.
So what I'm saying is "Took them long enough, Jesus."
Was going to go dig out my copy of Austin Powers: Operation Trivia and be all, "While these were good, we can't forget about the best one." Sarcastically, of course. Can't seem to find it though.
(No, I didn't pay for it. Got it free from beta testing it and most of the YDKJ games past #2 for Berkeley. Sad they're not around anymore.)
Did somehow find my old floppy version of Crystal Caliburn.
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was it purely trivia about austin powers or what?
The general idea was that Dr. Evil stuck AP in a death trap, and to escape he has to play a shitty trivia contest ala Banjo-Kazooie called "Win, Lose, or Die."
...cripes, how the hell do I remember that? o_O
Rounds were fairly short in that they only had six questions, but some of the question types were longer. There was one question type that was a Chain, and would be doing a series of rapid-fire questions that were related to the previous one. There was a quasi-Dis-or-Dat called "Stop-'n'-go-go", which had you pick out the four correct answers and avoid the three fake answers, stuff like that.
Which doesn't sound that bad, exceeeeeeeeeeept they didn't get any of the original movie cast to read their one-liners, and the people who they got to replace them were reaaaaaaaaaaaaaly bad. And they'd re-use the same clip a lot. It was awful.
Oh, and it was only two players max.
It got panned in reviews almost universally (except for IGN, for some reason... ).
If I could find my copy, I'd try to LP it for a few rounds just so people could see how bad it was. (And there's no videos of it on YouTube for some reason.)
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Can't imagine why. ;-)
God, I remember seeing that game at E3, in the Sierra/Vivendi booth with a LOTR strategy game Orcs: Revenge of the Ancient, and the Babylon 5 space fighter game with new original actor footage.
Guess which game actually came out.
Lies. The UK version with Paul Kaye as host Jack Cake was fantastic. Plus Mel and Sue did the back up the voices. It was a thing of glory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHLsoPF-sRo
Boo. Playing the online demo has actually dulled a little of my enthusiasm. Far too American. Pop culture trivia is a very local thing I guess.
hell, germany got four ydkj games
Pop culture is a very local thing.
I highly doubt much of it would hold up to just being translated
gibberish questions in particular
hell, I'm also pretty sure German vol4 was released before American vol6
Oh my god.
come to think of it, it might not work in the new one
since it seems that the gibberish question isn't around anymore
there's no mention of it in the question types listed on the website, no evidence of them in screenshots, and, well, with all the console versions, they may have dropped typed answers entirely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=254B_195eUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy881ZTd24g
Also, does anyone remember the TV show they tried to make out of the game?
yes I do
it was uh
something
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89nRU_l3nO4
it only lasted a mere six episodes
Forgot it was fully a Sierra-thing and Jellyvision apparently didn't have anything to do with it.
Also found YDKJ's teen cousin, Headrush. (Bonus beta testing copy in the background, had hung onto it for some reason.)
Now, hopefully the former actually still works... and I'll have to figure out a good way to record it.
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and yeah, head rush is pretty fun
though it turns out old children's pop culture feels a lot more dated than old adult pop culture
It's funny, I had actually recorded two games, but afterwards discovered it didn't actually record the sound. Will try to knock another one out soon.
EDIT: fffff, of course, try to record another one, and it records the sound from my mic on my computer instead of what I wanted it to do, so it's super-quiet. And split into seperate audio & video files.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqESv5wE2MM