There have been seven total Jackbox games, with the seventh pack seeing a huge boost in players when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Since 2014, the Jackbox Party Pack has provided people with tons of great party games to play with friends. Part of the reason that the Party Pack series was created was due to the popularity of games like You Don't Know Jack on streaming platforms. All of these stand-alone titles except for Clone Booth would later return in the Jackbox Party Pack series.
Lie Swatter, Clone Booth and Word Putzz all filled the release date gap between the Facebook version of You Don't Know Jack and the first Jackbox Party Pack. This first pack included games that were either already classics or would become classics for the Jackbox Party Pack, such as Drawful and Fibbage XL.īefore releasing the first Jackbox Party Pack, Jackbox Games would release a few more standalone titles. This pack included You Don't Know Jack 2015, Drawful, Word Spud, Lie Swatter and Fibbage XL. Now known as Jackbox Games, they'd continue to produce You Don't Know Jack games until 2014, when they'd release the first Jackbox Party Pack. In 2013, Jellyvision Games would branch off into their own company and rebrand themselves one more time. However, Jellyvision Games would eventually be forced to close after the direction of gaming as a whole changed. Jellyvision would turn You Don't Know Jack into a franchise of more than 15 titles up until 2003. You Don't Know Jack kickstarted Learn Television's shift in focus from education to entertainment and a name change, with Learn Television becoming Jellyvision Games. This partnership would see the creation of a childrens' trivia game called That's A Fact, Jack!, which would serve as the predecessor for the break-out trivia title, You Don't Know Jack. During this period, Learn Television would partner with Berkeley Systems, the creators of the popular After Dark screensavers for Macintosh computers. In 1989, Gottlieb founded Learn Television, a film development studio focused on creating funny educational films for schools.
The history of Jackbox Games starts with a man named Harry Nathan Gottlieb. After seven years of dormancy, Jellyvision Games was revived in 2008, and the company rebranded as Jackbox Games in 2013 Founded by Harry Gottlieb, the company operated as Jellyvision Games from 1995 until its closure in 2001. (formerly Jellyvision Games, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Chicago, Illinois, best known for the You Don't Know Jack series of quiz-based party video games and The Jackbox Party Pack series.
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