A party video game is a genre of video game that stems from in-person party games , involving player-to-player interaction as the central gameplay element. These games are often defined by simple controls which can be easily picked up and understood by players of any skill level.
20-574: Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival is a 2015 party video game developed by Nintendo and NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Wii U . Similar to the Mario Party series, the game is a spin-off of the Animal Crossing series that moves away from the series traditional format, instead being a party game that primarily integrates Amiibo figures into the gameplay. Alongside the release of
40-476: A good one at that." Not all reviewers were so critical; Famitsu scored the game 32/40, with each of the four reviewers giving it a score of 8. The game proved to be a commercial failure, selling only 20,303 copies within its first week of release in Japan. Party video game Party video games generally consist of short-term experiences which may be played in succession, and are sometimes characterized in
60-564: A lot of conventions including the need for flashy graphics to have an exciting game." You Don't Know Jack also received Computer Game Review ' s "Best Voiceover Work of the Year" prize. In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared You Don't Know Jack the 75th-best computer game ever released. You Don't Know Jack XL compiles the first You Don't Know Jack volume with an additional Question Pack. You Don't Know Jack XL won Macworld ' s 1996 "Best Party Game" award. Steven Levy of
80-595: A series of individually-selectable minigames. In 1995, You Don't Know Jack was released, the first of the You Don't Know Jack franchise and the precursor to the Jackbox Party Pack collection in 2014. In 1998, Mario Party was released on the Nintendo 64 . Its launch eventually brought about the rest of the Mario Party franchise , in wake of the game's success across markets. Mario Party 2
100-459: The Mario Party series. Playable Animal Crossing characters include Isabelle , K.K. Slider, Tom Nook , and Mabel—four of the series' eight characters upon which Amiibo toys had been based. The game also supports the Amiibo cards which had debuted alongside Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer , and generally requires the use of Amiibo figures for play. Director Aya Kyogoku stated that
120-469: The You Don't Know Jack video game series. Prior to developing You Don't Know Jack , Learn Television was a company focused on children's educational films. The company had begun experimenting with interactive media experiences for education, including their game That's a Fact, Jack! , a quiz game on young adult literature, which garnered attention from Berkeley Systems who later reached out to Learn Television. In an interview, Harry Nathan Gottlieb,
140-422: The best "Classics/Puzzles" game of 1995. The editors wrote that "it's great fun watching people whiff on answers at parties", and that "anyone who's ever wanted to see game shows skewered will have a ball with this." It won Computer Game Review ' s 1995 "Puzzle Game of the Year" award. The editors wrote, " You Don’t Know Jack did more than simply provide a fun way to spend time at the computer. It also broke
160-453: The form of minigames . These experiences may be played singularly or in a group, and usually feature several players competing simultaneously. The first party video game is thought to be Olympic Decathlon , releasing in 1980. In 1983, Party Mix was released for the Atari, and consisted of an anthology of five multiplayer games, which began the format of party video games releasing as
180-416: The founder of Learn Television which would later be rebranded as Jellyvision Games and then Jackbox Games, shared the following origin story for You Don't Know Jack! : "[Igor Gasowski of Berkeley Systems had] seen That's a Fact, Jack! and asked me, "You know, can you do this kind of same quiz game, but as adult entertainment?" (Not that kind of adult entertainment -- you know, entertainment for adults.) I
200-521: The game from Mario Party by stating that the latter is more focused on minigames, while Amiibo Festival is more of a board game. The game uses Nintendo's Amiibo protocol to insert characters into the game, with eight different Amiibo toys bundled with the game's release. The characters each have personal characteristics, including a house associated with the character as designed in Happy Home Designer . Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival
220-555: The game was conceived as a vehicle for the creation of the first Animal Crossing Amiibo: "Honestly, we just wanted Animal Crossing Amiibo. We wanted the company to make Animal Crossing Amiibo, so that's why we made a game that works with them." The game was announced during the Nintendo Digital Event at E3 2015 for release in Q4 2015 during the holiday season , later specified as November 2015. Kyogoku distinguished
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#1732779661075240-460: The game, 8 Animal Crossing Amiibo character figures were released for use in the game. It was released worldwide in November 2015. Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival was a critical and commercial failure, with criticism for the repetitive gameplay, poor Amiibo integration, and lack of innovation, though its presentation was praised. Amiibo Festival is a virtual board game similar in style to
260-454: The gameplay is a boring and slow "snooze fest" — having almost fallen asleep while playing. The game was praised as "undoubtedly charming", relaxing, and best played with friends. Nintendo World Report gave the game a 4.5 out of 10, citing "Boring, repetitive gameplay" and "Tak[ing] an hour to get anything good." GamesBeat gave the game 3.3 out of 10 and condemned it for being "a blatant attempt to get you to buy more Amiibo, and it’s not even
280-490: The magazine wrote, "When it comes to creating a great party game that works on the computer, many have tried, and most have failed. Finally, fueled by MTV energy and Generation X cultural radar, there's You Don't Know Jack ." It also won the 1996 Spotlight Awards for "Best Trivia or Puzzle Game" and "Best Script, Story or Interactive Writing" from the Game Developers Conference . The game received
300-457: The same question? What if there was a question about, like, both Shakespeare and The Brady Bunch . We started to come up with some questions for it and that led to this game called You Don't Know Jack , which was a trivia game for adults. But it was funny ." Igor Gasowski would end up serving as the executive producer of the game. Sales of You Don't Know Jack surpassed 250,000 units by May 1996. According to market research firm PC Data , it
320-498: The title enjoyable, also felt the PC game format was unsuitable for an "after-pub game" like You Don't Know Jack : "there aren't going to be many people who will want to bother setting up their PC after a drinking session." To Lomas, it also did not help the jokes felt labored, "the kind of humour that will only appeal to 35-year-olds who think Hale and Pace are funny". You Don't Know Jack won Computer Gaming World ' s award for
340-433: Was not particularly interested in doing it, I'm not somebody who loves trivia games. But he kept bugging me about it, and then I had this conversation with my brother, who was my roommate at the time, his name is Tom Gottlieb. I'm like, "How can we make a trivia game funny?," cause if we could make a trivia game funny than it might be cool to do. Then we had this idea: what if you could combine pop culture and high culture in
360-443: Was released exclusively as a retail product, and was not digitally available on the Nintendo eShop in any region. Unlike its predecessors, Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival received "generally unfavorable" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic , with an aggregate score of 46 out of 100. IGN rated the game at 5 out of 10, saying that the Amiibo integration is "cumbersome" and "hard to play with" and that
380-464: Was released in 1999, and Mario Party 3 was released in 2000. The launch of the Wii in 2006 led to the creation of Wii Play , a minigame collection that was bundled with certain copies of the Wii console. You Don%27t Know Jack (1995 video game) Berkeley Systems You Don't Know Jack is a video game released in 1995 by Jellyvision, later Jackbox Games , and is the first release in
400-579: Was the 17th-best-selling computer game in the United States that year. Reviewing the Macintosh version of the original You Don't Know Jack , a Next Generation critic praised the social nature of the game and the witty presentation. Calling it "An excellent, hip piece of work", he gave it three out of five stars. MacUser named You Don't Know Jack the best strategy game of 1995. Less favorably, Ed Lomas of Computer and Video Games found
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