Unless you know 20+ year old sports trivia, you will suck at this. CLassic YDKJ formula but since it is from 1996 it is an outdated trivia game.

Other than that it is okay. Get it when it is VERY on sale, in the Classic Pack.

5/10 on deep sale

As with other games, US-centric and only 800x600. Fine if you're an American sports fan whose knowledge stopped 20 years ago.

Do you like Sports trivia as of 1996? Do you like Guy Towers having to dial himself back compared to his performance in The Ride and Headrush? If so, this is the Jack for you.

Really good Jack Attack music. :D

My girlfriend left me.

I know nothing about sports. I do know You Don't Know Jack. A game where losing is still fun!

WHAT IS SPORTS

Same deal with Movies and Television; your enjoyment is gonna come with your knowledge of the base material. Granted, the only sport I know anything about is football, but I still managed to get some questions right.

I know next to nothing about sports, and knew that going in when I got the Classic Pack that contained this game. Yet, I did manage to get some right that I accumulated random knowledge about over the years, and learned some new interesting trivia as well. Regardless, this game is fun even if you lose badly. The question categories are fun to try to guess at the type of question you will be given if you choose them, and the questions are fairly broad in their range. I imagine that playing it in multiplayer with a group that has a decent knowledge of sports trivia would be rather interesting, but at least for this game I don't have anyone to play such an arrangement with. As a single player game it still remains quite entertaining though.

The questions are alright, but it's based on the YDKJ 1 engine with little to add other than some lazy edits and an uninspired host laemly reading Nate's old lines. Only sports nuts should consider picking up this title.

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you don't know jack is the best trivia game series of all time. this one is from 1996, so it's pretty outdated by now and it's always been us-centric (and this one is all about sports, obviously), so you'll either find it very challenging or very frustrating if you're from somewhere else. or a piece of cake because you know all the answers.

it's your typical multiple choice deal, but there are a ton of other question types over the series, like dis or dat (or sometimes both) or gibberish question. you can play a game of 7 or 21 questions, some question types only appear in the full run, but they both end with the jack attack. there's a clue and you have to match things accordingly.

local multiplayer is available for up to 3 players, you can even screw each other by buzzing in and forcing another player to answer. save for a few occasions way back when, I've always played it alone and always had a blast.

it's all presented as a tv show (there was an actual short-lived tv show as well, should be on youtube), there's some behind-the-scenes chatter at the beginning, fake commercials at the end (don't you dare skip them!), fake money to win and all that, and the writing is fantastic. if it was a simple text-based thing, it'd still be excellent stuff, so much creativity, but the voiceovers take it to a whole new level. lots of characters, one-off or recurring, great hosts, also one-off or recurring, and again, the whole thing is just great.

the attention to detail and variety elevates it even further. sure, if you play long enough, you'll see repeated questions (though I don't think the game will show them again until you've seen most of them), but there are a lot of different ways to introduce questions, a lot of remarks if you chose the wrong answer or hesitate to enter your name (in which case the host will give you one) or pick a category or answer, a relevant joke for most choices, right or wrong, and of course the commercials, man... the game also starts differently based on the time and date, so on certain holidays, early in the morning, late at night, on friday evening, and so on. and for answers that need typing, you can try some profanities, see what good they do.

there was nothing done to modernize the game for the steam release, so it runs in 640x480 (a very tiny window with a black background, you can set the .exe to run in that resolution or something closer and fill the screen more with the actual game), there's no steam overlay, there's only a single volume setting (it's fine in this case, though lowering it completely didn't let me raise it again until a restart) and controls aren't rebindable. each player gets a buzz hotkey scattered on the keyboard, the screw is the same for everybody, and if you play alone, no need to buzz and space works just fine for that too.

I literally don't know jack and I've been having fun with the series since it first came out, most of it played alone. if you don't mind questions about older stuff (or that's your specialty) and can handle a lower resolution, definitely pick these up.

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