BRING A SHARP MIND and these TV-inspired discs to your Mac, and have fun plumbing the depths of your intellect -- if you're somewhere between a genius and a complete moron.
Connections.
PBS institution James Burke hosts this game about the flow of industrial history. You seek to bring reason to a finely rendered universe ("the web") by finding the links between seemingly random real innovations and placing them in chronological order in the surreal web. Each time you find a connection and successfully place an item, Burke provides a video on its historical significance and moves you to the next level of play. Discovery Channel Multimedia. $50. 800-678-3343; http://multimedia.discovery.com/.
Saturday Night Live Goes Political.
With dozens of politically inspired video and audio clips from 20 years of SNL and 16 diversions such as a burger-chasing game that features Clinton eating his way to the White House, you might find SNLGP as hilarious as this year's presidential candidates. Berkeley Systems. $30. 800-344-5541 or 510-540-5535; http://www.berksys.com/.
The You Don't Know Jack Question Pack.
TV game shows migrated to the Mac in the MacUser Eddy Award-winning You Don't Know Jack CD-ROM game. But what do you do after you've answered the 800+ superhip trivia questions in the original and still want more? Berkeley Systems has responded to customer demand with a 400-question CD-ROM add-on. Also available is You Don't Know Jack X-tra Large, which is the original trivia game combined with the Question Pack. Berkeley Systems. Question Pack, $20; You Don't Know Jack X-tra Large, $40. 800-344-5541 or 510-540-5535; http://www.berksys.com/.
