{"id":7776,"date":"2013-11-06T09:33:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2013-11-06T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:59:03","slug":"knowing-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7776","title":{"rendered":"Knowing Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was bought to my attention this morning and likely of interest to readers, <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sub\/33692\/\">Steam currently has a <strong>You Don&#8217;t Know Jack US<\/strong> bundle going<\/a> &#8211; all of the old PC games except for YDKJ 5 (which featured online play) for fifteen quid. (<strong>Edit:<\/strong> Also doesn&#8217;t include the weekly online episodes that were released as two compilations &#8211; <em>Offline<\/em> and <em>Louder! Faster! Funnier!\u00a0<\/em>so a little bit less complete, but still good value.)<\/p>\n<p>Be warned the humour and references are American and some of those pop culture references are going to be twenty years old, however you&#8217;re looking at around 8,000 questions (and to a lesser extent gags) that have been properly crafted and remains a great fun single and especially multiplayer quiz. It&#8217;s a shame the Paul Kaye UK edition isn&#8217;t up on Steam as you&#8217;d get the references and had people like Mel and Sue on the writing team. Of the bundle I reckon The Ride is the most interesting set-up, YDKJ 3 is probably the second best one. I haven&#8217;t played <strong>Head Rush<\/strong>, which was the teen version.<\/p>\n<p>I spent about \u00a350 on eBay a few years ago getting the CD-ROM versions of most of these and it would have taken about a week to download on your 56k modem. Now you can get the lot for \u00a315 and download them in seconds. Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>In other news <a href=\"http:\/\/takeawayontour.seetickets.com\/tour\/ant-dec\/?pre=antandec\"><strong>Takeaway On Tour<\/strong> tickets now on sale<\/a>, tickets between \u00a325 and \u00a350-ish depending on venue, 20% discounts for families of four.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can wait for the next series in the Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was bought to my attention this morning and likely of interest to readers, Steam currently has a You Don&#8217;t Know Jack US bundle going &#8211; all of the old PC games except for YDKJ 5 (which featured online play) for fifteen quid. (Edit: Also doesn&#8217;t include the weekly online episodes that were released as\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7776\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-21q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}