What is You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2?

Reintroduce yourself to this classic YDKJ sequel! All the fun of Volume 1, but with completely different questions, host, and smell!

YOU DON’T KNOW JACK Volume 2 is the mutant offspring of the original award-winning, irreverent, fast-paced trivia game where you are a contestant on a manic game show. With all the excitement of the first game, lots of mind-blowing surprises, plus four additional question types, YOU DON’T KNOW JACK Volume 2 will scrape the trivia out of your cranium like the seedy pulp from a melon.

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You say you’re sick of smarty-pants humor? Tired of post-modern ironic commentary, gratuitous insults, sexual innuendo, and mindless multimedia for its own sake? Well, turn the page, Bunky, ’cause You Don’t Know Jack 2 is clearly for someone else.

Jack is a game show for one to three players, straight out of the Jeopardy/Trivial Pursuit mold. It’s also smug, smarmy, and smart-assed, hosted by a wise guy who combines Dennis Miller’s attitude with Christian Slater’s near-whine vocal finesse. Slow to respond? The host snaps off your head. Wrong answer? Your intelligence is questioned. But get this straight: Jack is squarely in the Really Funny School of smarty-pants humor. It works. Over and over, our skeptical team of game testers cracked up.

The attitude alone wouldn’t be worth 15 minutes without a solid, engaging game to back it up, and again Jack delivers. Up to three players crowd around the keyboard, ready to buzz in answers by pressing a key. The questions set mind-stretching puzzles under a veneer of incongmous and hilarious pop culture references from Mary Tyler Moore to Popeye the Sailor. Players work hard — and fast — to unravel the question and then to figure out the answer.

This latest version adds all new questions and a few new twists to the original, but it’s essentially the same old Jack. We tested the game on a slow PowerPC-based Mac with a 2X CD-ROM player and the animation, sound, and action never flagged. It remains a great game for two or three, though slightly less fun for one.
Just two contradictory quibbles: the game is limited to just three players, one too few to play pairs gainst one another. On the other hand, three players is a tight fit around a keyboard, and any more would be a bit too chummy.

Holmes, Joseph O. (March 1997). You Don't Know Jack 2. MacAddict. (pg. 77).

Download You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2 for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.1 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• MC68040 processor
• 5 MB RAM available
• 16 MB hard disk available
• 2X CD-ROM drive
• 640 x 480, 8-bit color display
• System 7.1
• QuickTime 2.5 (included)

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II