You Don't Know Jack Offline PC CD movie television music question trivia game! Type: Game Platform: Windows/Mac Publisher: Sierra Attractions Released: 1999 Media: CD You Don't Know Jack is back with more questions and wry commentary in You Don't Know Jack: Offline. The game features fast-action trivia competition for up to three players. As in other versions, the "screw" your competitor feature is available in this game, allowing a player to force other contestants to answer questions he thinks they won't know. A new question type is also available. This "Offline" edition features questions from You Don't Know Jack: the Netshow, an online-only version of the popular party game.The moderator of You Don't Know Jack might be the only game show host in the history of celebrity judges, buzzers, and door-number-fours to consistently insult the contestants. (Well, maybe Bob Eubanks on a really bad day.) But Jack gets away with it--plus a whole lot of stuff that Bob Barker has only dreamed of--in a Gen-X answer to the typical trivia game format.There's a lot to be said for earlier incarnations of Jack, including the original moderator (newer voices seem to be doing a derivative imitation) and sparse graphics that seemed retrocool in a You Bet Your Life 1950's fashion. But You Don't Know Jack--Offline offers Internet connectivity as well as Wired Magazine/Matrix-influenced screen decor.Aesthetics aside, the brilliance of the game is its intersection of pop-culture history--movie and television characters, primarily--with textbook knowledge. Questions are put through the Jack blender until a quiz emerges that includes particle physics and Starsky & Hutch. Because of the clever (and prevalent) double entendres, You Don't Know Jack--Offline isn't appropriate family fare. Instead, pick up a copy for your favorite procrastinating graduate school student. They might not finish their doctoral thesis, but their life will never be the same. --Jennifer BuckendorffFor Windows (32-bit Systems) / Mac (Power Macintosh: OS 9 or Below) [*Please review compatibility/platform sections in 'What You Get']
