The trivia genre hasn’t always had the easiest time getting a foothold in the gaming industry. Titles like Buzz! and Scene It? have come and gone with mild fanfare, leaving no lasting impression. When if first released in 1995, You Don’t Know Jack changed the way a lot of people thought about trivia video games. Rather than emulating existing shows it sought to be its own beast with a unique sense of style and substance. With its modern re-release You Don’t Know Jack returns in full force by delivering an incredibly polished experience with a plan to stay relevant long after its completion.
This is a very fun game to pay in isolation and doing things for a good cause is never a bad idea. Ten-episode live-streaming original series premieres Friday, May 1.
Jackbox games are bringing a new party game collection later this Fall to PC and Consoles simply named Jackbox Party Pack 5. The announcement comes from PAX East earlier today, where they released a comical trailer with a fake collaboration with Binjpipe.com. That trailer is included below and contains numerous little chuckles for your entertainment. Jackbox …
They get a surprising amount of play time. So easy when you have 5-6 people over
Ken McKown writes: The From A to Z series lets our editors go back and take a look at games from past generations that are classics, overlooked gems, or just titles they remember fondly. The idea behind this is to pick five games from each letter of the alphabet, once a week to showcase. This delivers 26 weeks and 130 games to talk about. Hopefully it sparks some conversation, and of course plenty of memories.
Our first series will focus on Sony’s first entry into the console business, the PlayStation.
Let’s continue with the letters “X,Y,Z, and #”.
describing "40 Winks" the author says "Every game on the PSOne wanted to beat Mario (spoiler, none of them ever did)"...i say spoiler: yes one or two games on PS1 managed to destroy Mario 64 even if they were developed before it ....Crash Bandicoot 1-2 were far far better than Mario 64 from any aspect, more fun, more difficult , better graphics (yes better graphics go compare them now to see for yrslf), better art style etcetc ...but ok there is the idiotic unscripted rule that whatever mediocrity or decent game Nintendo brings must be legendary and better than anything out there
