Wow. Has it really been 11 years? Jellyvision‘s classic You Don’t Know Jack line of PC trivia games was always challenging, always funny and always a hit at a party or two. Eventually, players would get to the end of the line on the variety of questions and start memorizing answers, but those first few times around the bend were just awesome. And the commercials, too. They had these fake commercials that would play over the “end credits” of each game. They were brilliant.
YDKJ has tried to live on in other formats. I think they attempted television and even made an early 2000s run at the on-line market with something called The Netshow. This is their new thing, called simply You Don’t Know Jack – Beta. There’s a sign-up component that seems to indicate some manner of eventual competition, but nothing solid in that direction as of yet. For now, they’re serving up daily single-player doses of DisOrDat (one of the many types of question rounds in the old game), all MC’d by either the original “Cookie” or just some joker who sounds remarkably familiar. And as you can see here, these quizzes can be conveniently (with a little dimensional modification) embedded in a blog entry, just like YouTube and so on.
Note: Turns out that the embedded Flash breaks my formatting. They might want to look into that.
I wish them luck. And I’ve signed up to do some serious winning, should such a time come around.
