i don't know jack about this game, but stil, it sounds fun.

It does occur to me that if you mixed Sapi tts output and propper sound files, you could have loads of questions (I don't know if this is what Freedome Millionaire has done, but I'd guess it is), though of course you'd have to have the sarcky host's comments as actual speech (Sapi just doesn't have the presence to be sarcastic).

Btw, I'd love to see more board games from Jim Kitchen ala Game of life. there are so many good ones that aren't accessible, the game pyramid game, where you had to be the first to get your phairo's sarcophagus to the valley of the kings and build a pyramid, avoiding enemies, and buying and selling slaves on the way.

Then there's rat race, which is sort of a bit like monopoly in that you have money, but the object of the game is to become an upper class snob. You own a firm, and can sell iether lower class, middle class or upper class goods to the other players.

then of course, there's the wonderful thing that is atmosphere, but goodness knows how you'd go about converting that into audio (It'd be possible, but extremely difficult!).

ah yes, good ol YDKJ.  I've got a bunch of those games lying around somewhere at my parents' house.  Maybe I'll have to find them and put all my favorite ones on my computer again.  Although, that'll make me want to start immitating cookie again.  LOL

My favorite ones are YDKJ volume 3, YDKJ sports and YDKJ offline.  I remember playing volume 3 alot before Christmas one year, and that year I got the YDKJ jumbo pack, which came with volumes 1 2 and 3, YDKJ the ride, and YDKJ offline.

As far as I know, Freedom millionaire doesn't use sapi, it uses your existing screen reader which I like.  I also like how the questions are done with standard dialogs, so a sighted person can play with their stupid mouse too.  I've had fun testing my Disney knowledge on that game with a friend every once in a while.

" Player you really didn't do too bad.  Now get the *** away from the computer and go make some friends, cuz,"
*boom*
"you don't know jack!"

Obviously Brian, some people know and love this game, and others (like myself), don't,, so a pod cast about it would be good.

I certainly prefer Auphius (my synthesisor), to Sapi, in fact I'm looking at getting hold of some run time files that will let me use auphius for all Sapi Tts aplications (though obviously I wouldn't be using Hal).

I should probably try milionaire out ---- considdering it's free.

yep, the you don't know jack games are only on CD.  Come to think of it, I've never seena mainstream PC game like that that is downloadable and unlocked with a registration key the way alot of audio games are.

I just wish there was a you don't know jack junior or something like that, or a way to make it G or PG rated.  The games are fun as heck, but sometimes the questions and some of the other stuff (more on that later), get R rated.

Some of the dis or dat questions have 3 choices.  Like I ran into one where the host read off 7 facts and you had to decide whether they applied to Lincoln, Kenedy, or both.  Also at the beginning of the game, you are kind of behind the scenes of the show a minute before they go on the air and that's when you fill in all your info, like how many people are playing, your name and all that jazz.  If you wait too long the computer just picks your name (and it's usually something that people would laugh at), and if you don't tell how many people are playing, they eventually just pick 3 random people out of the audience.  Then you hear the end of a commercial and the game starts.  When the game is over and you are asked if you want to play again, you can wait and they have fictitious commercials that will play, some of which I don't like but that's just me.  Some are pretty funny though, like they had one advertising a beer called NBA Draft.  At the end where beer commercials normally tell you to drink responsibly, it said something like the makers of NBA draft remind you to never drink and drive down the lane."  I haven't played the YDKJ games in quite a while so I can't remember any more off the top of my head...

Every once in a blue moon, you will get an impossible question.  This is usually just like a normal question, but it's supposed to be really hard because there is a $20000 payout for it.  I've only seen them in YDKJ volume 3 though.  I had one that was rediculously easy, but it was presented in such a way that you would second guess yourself alot.  I also got one where you had to type in the answer directly as some of the questions do.  In the game's twisted way, it basically asked you how far you would run if your boss made you run a 401K race instead of giving you a 401K plan.

oh yeah...one of my favorite things about the YDKJ games that make them classics in my book is that after you select a category and before the host reads the question, a short little clip will play that tells you what question you are on.  Some of these are quite memorable to me.  My brother told me about some of the animations in the ones on the sports version of you don't know jack, and they sound pretty clever.

Wow...that was long.  That might be able to pass as a GameFAQs review.  Bryan, did I miss anything?