The original game was translated into german, french and japanese - including localised questions and pop culture.

Unfortunately Jackbox doesn't want to release the other languages and if you're not fluent in english AND know some stuff about 90s US pop culture you won't be able to enjoy YDKJ.

I love this game! I have wonderful memories of playing this with my Mom and the steam re-release doesn't disappoint. While I say "re-release", nothing has changed - it's just been updated to run on modern operating systems (I'm on Windows 10.)

The audio is a little old, but there are unique question types - such as the celebrity collect call - that make it fun. The questions are snarky and surprisingly have a "dirty mind" tilt to them - in a great way, but I'd avoid junior high and below.

For new players, this is very much a computer game - not a controller or mouse game, Multi-player is done via a shared keyboard and there are fill-in-the-blank questions where you, yes, have to type (it's pretty forgiving on typos, tho.) This is in many ways a nice reminder of old style multiplayer...you get creative with seating.

This is also a blast to play solo. You get lots of teasing.

When you first launch, the screen will seem very small. An easy fix:

• Right-click the game in your steam library and select "View local files".
  
• Right click the main program (something similar like YDKJV2.exe and select "properties".
  
• Click the "Compatibility" tab.
  
• In the "Settings" section select the checkbox next to "Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution"
  
• Click Apply, Click OK, launch game from Steam.
  
  While the initial white box won't be full screen, it will quickly flip to full screen. Don't worry, you haven't changed your desktop resolution, and once you quit the game everything will go back to normal. Problem solved!

well i loved the game as retail, when i was young.

now i thought its a nice move from jackbox to publish it on steam.

the sad thing is that they published it without any kind of optimization..

you see the game running in a very tiny window, even if its occupying your whole screen (around the game its just black)
no resolution change, only english language, no steam overlay.

the price is low, but its still not worth it. better get the game as non-steam retail instead.

for steam it gets a "no" from me, even if the game itself is still great.

Still one of the best trivia games ever, and on equal footing with Volume 1. The new host isn't as entertaining, but better design and the new Dis or Dat question evens out the value.

This is exactly what I wanted,

BUT

The UK version with Paul Kaye is sooooo much better.

O, how I wish they would release that version.

Hint, ferking, hint!!

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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, 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.

buzz lippman

This was a fun game to play with friends but the user interface is so bad.. I can't say I would play it again.

The one with the bad host. But also the one that introduced the world to the DisOrDat. So it's a hard call. It's still classic Jack, but with the most annoying host in the history of the series. The music is good, though it also pops up in Movies.

So get it if you want ALL the YDKJ games, but don't make it your first one.

I think volume 2 is the best of the bunch! Totally irreverent and fun!