![]() ![]() It’s not a classic, but it’s one of those party games that gets thrown in along with Taboo and Catchphrase. Remember Outburst? It’s that one board game where you shout out as many answers to a category as you can. I actually scanned this in myself as there’s no good quality images of this on the internet that weren’t like 200×200 or something ridiculously small. ![]() This game did the latter, and did it by using a mostly-dormant board game franchise. In some cases, they tried to make a trivia game styled like Jack, such as TRL Trivia and Austin Powers in Operation Trivia, or they tried to copy the goofy “adult humor” of Jack and make an original own game show-like game. Naturally any Tom, Dick and Harry game publisher saw what Jack was doing and wanted in on that money by making You Don’t Know Jack-likes for the PC market. Jellyvision’s (now Jackbox Games) You Don’t Know Jack was immensely popular, being one of the biggest PC games throughout most of the mid-90s. Hasbro the company would eventually get the rights back to license their board games to other companies, including EA and Ubisoft. ![]() The company basically stayed on this path until Hasbro Interactive was bought by Infogrames in 2000, and now they basically are whatever is left of Atari these days. In the late 1990s, they basically became the new company to make Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! games when GameTek went bankrupt. This is probably the best Monopoly video game in existance. ![]()
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