Over the years, the series has been tweaked here and there, but it’s never lost any of the charm and great gameplay of the original. And every answer, right or wrong, was done with the kind of humour that still holds up. It added the quick-fire guess dynamic to your arsenal of knowledge. Instead you had a list of four pre-selected answers to choose from. You had smart but goofy questions, a chance to buzz in and, even though the original was released on PC, you didn’t type in your answer. You Don’t Know Jack was, and has remained over the years, the perfect trivia interface. But do you really want to go through that again? Can you even remotely tolerate yet another round of Nirvana done by your girlfriend’s drunken classmate?Ī song about how Cobain thought everyone missed the point of his music played by people only because they couldn’t master that iPod commercial song by Jet. I’ll go so far as to say that, for the longest time, you’d be hard pressed to get a bunch of people enjoying the same game in the same room without doling out the plastic instruments. Party guests want to watch people playing them even less. And, as much as you don’t want to admit it, just because you bought Castle Crashers, nobody wants to come over and play a four-person side-scroller. Let’s face it… 4-way splitscreen GoldenEye style FPS action has been pretty much sidelined to the blog posts of the nostalgic. Up until last year, if you wanted to play a four-person party game, you needed to shell out $50+ for a controller that you would probably use maybe a dozen times. Remember to remove the batteries before throwing them in the bottom of the closet forever. This was compounded by games like SceneIt where the game could come bundled with EXTRA signalling devices that I’m sure are languishing in whatever household they were purchased for. The other problem with trivia and party games is that you often needed as many controllers as there were players.
It doesn’t hurt at first, but the longer it goes on… man… no one is having a good time.
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It’s frustrating to have a game that demands you know how to spell “mononucleosis” even though you KNOW how to say it and you KNOW that it’s the correct answer… and you HAVE IT… but the game won’t accept “mononucliosus” so you lose $600 and digital Alex looks smug and you throw the controller across the room and fall asleep.Īdd to that the fact that “typing” an answer out on a virtual keyboard with a control pad is akin to water torture.
For example, have you ever tried to play Jeopardy! with mild dyslexia? I remember all too well what a nightmare it was on the C64 and Super Nintendo. Unfortunately, finding a good one is a challenge. They’re also unique in that the more players you have, the better they are. In fact, it’s one of the only genres that both my wife and I can enjoy together. Something fun.Īs luck would have it, Jackbox Games, the brains behind You Don’t Know Jack, Fibbage and Drawful, released their latest party game a few weeks back and this gave us the perfect opportunity to give it a spin.īefore we get into it, let me lay down some context for what initially drew me to Jackbox in the first place. I’ve always been a fan of trivia games. Knowing that me and Dave wouldn’t have as many opportunities to do our semi-regular live outing at the Social Capital Theatre, where we’ve been stunning and amazing literally a dozen people for about a year, we decided to loosen things up by just having a short show followed by a party. No, not the “Last Call” for DrinkAlong LIVE… that was special… but what happened after was really amazing. If you were in Toronto last Friday night you missed a pretty good show.
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