On November 5, 2013, the majority of the franchise's many volumes and spinoffs were reissued onto Steam[5] by Jackbox Games.
In 1991, Jellyvision's former identity, Learn Television, released the award-winning film The Mind's Treasure Chest, which featured lead character Jack Patterson.
", a reading motivation CD-ROM game show series covering young adult fiction, targeted to 3rd through 10th graders.
The game usually opens with a green room segment, in which the players are prompted to enter their names and given instructions for play.
Some of the most common are the "DisOrDat", in which players must determine which of two categories the given subjects fall under (such as if Jay Leno was a daytime or a nighttime talk show host, if orecchiette is a type of pasta or a parasite) and the "Gibberish Question", involving a nonsensical phrase whose syllables rhyme with a more common phrase or title (for example, "Pre-empt Tires, Like Crack" could be the gibberish to The Empire Strikes Back).
The final round of the game, called the Jack Attack in most versions, is a word association question.
[18] You Don't Know Jack XL won two 1996 Spotlight Awards, for "Best Script, Story or Interactive Writing" and "Best Trivia or Puzzle Game".
And for that we salute the folks at Berkeley Systems and Jellyvision, game designers who really do know Jack, at least where our funny bones are concerned.
[22] You Don't Know Jack: Huge received a score of 4.5 out of 5 from Michael Gowan of Macworld, who wrote that the game "will strain your brain while amusing you with its witty banter and rapid-fire action.
"[23] In 1998, The Huge collection was named the 48th-best computer game of all time by PC Gamer US, whose editors called it "essential stuff.
There was also a Tiger Electronic tabletop game of You Don't Know Jack, emceed by Nate Shapiro.
It featured question cards with a number code on them and a grey button to open a sliding door to show the answers.
An actual television show version of You Don't Know Jack had a brief run on ABC in prime time during the summer of 2001.
[25] It starred Paul Reubens (the actor and comedian best known for his character Pee-wee Herman) as over-the-top game show host Troy Stevens, with Tom Gottlieb's 'Cookie' as the announcer.
[citation needed] A previous attempt had been made by Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television in 1996, produced by Ron Greenberg in Chicago; this version, intended as a weekday syndicated show, was not picked up (after initial tests and run-throughs necessitated a retooling of the show; Telepictures subsequently chose to drop the project).