Knowing Jack

This was bought to my attention this morning and likely of interest to readers, Steam currently has a You Don’t Know Jack US bundle going – all of the old PC games except for YDKJ 5 (which featured online play) for fifteen quid. (Edit: Also doesn’t include the weekly online episodes that were released as two compilations – Offline and Louder! Faster! Funnier! so a little bit less complete, but still good value.)

Be warned the humour and references are American and some of those pop culture references are going to be twenty years old, however you’re looking at around 8,000 questions (and to a lesser extent gags) that have been properly crafted and remains a great fun single and especially multiplayer quiz. It’s a shame the Paul Kaye UK edition isn’t up on Steam as you’d get the references and had people like Mel and Sue on the writing team. Of the bundle I reckon The Ride is the most interesting set-up, YDKJ 3 is probably the second best one. I haven’t played Head Rush, which was the teen version.

I spent about £50 on eBay a few years ago getting the CD-ROM versions of most of these and it would have taken about a week to download on your 56k modem. Now you can get the lot for £15 and download them in seconds. Amazing.

In other news Takeaway On Tour tickets now on sale, tickets between £25 and £50-ish depending on venue, 20% discounts for families of four.

Or you can wait for the next series in the Spring.