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Okay, this is sucks I want my 10 bucks back

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: August 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just Like Jeopardy! Deluxe, this edition sucks. This is a 1 player only game and instead of giving your own question, they have multiple choice. That is not what Jeopardy is. When has Jeopardy! ever been multiple choice? On my 80's Jeopardy NES game, you have to type in your response. There was no multiple choice. I am sorry, but not being able to give your own response ruins Jeopardy. This has to be the worst 10 bucks I have ever spent. I want my money back. This game sucks.

RIP Merv Griffin

Jeopardy Patch for Windows ME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Actually, there is a patch for this game online that supposedly fixes the Jeopardy game for use with Windows ME. Unfortunately, I can't get the patch to work, and the game still locks up at a certain point before game play begins. The patch can be found by going to www.hasbrointeractive.com and following the links to product support.

Don't buy this if you have Windows Me.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you have Windows Me, THIS WILL NOT WORK ON YOUR COMPUTER!!! While other game programs, such as Chessmaster 2000, Tachyon: The Fringe, and B17 Bomber WILL work with the Windows Me OS, this will be a waste of your money if you are using this OS. I can't comment on the game play, since I was unable to get that far after trying several things. So do yourself a favour and save your money.

Only a 1-player game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just like Wheel of Fortune, this is only a one-player game...and I bought it to play with my son. And there's no option as to what skill level you are...so you just get random categories.

My son thinks it's fun, and having multiple choice answers really helps, but I can think of a much better way they could have come up with to play Jeopardy at home.

This game is too hard for anyone

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: January 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is almost impossible to win. I've played over 16 games and it's too hard. The game needs some more work and it gets really boring after a while because the questions are really difficult and they give you so much time for every question.

Needs More Work

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 24 / 26
Date: December 03, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I think they jumped the gun on this one. They should have taken more time to work out the kinks. My CD is jumpy and tends to skip. There is also too much time wasted getting to the actual game, and no way to go around it that I can see. Also, sometimes the answer misses the mark. For example, the "answer" was "...this family..." and my "question" was "Who was the Mayo Family", which was not accepted, but the other contestant's "Who was Mayo" was accepted! On the good side, the graphics are wonderful. I think I will return to the old game for now.

Good for 1 player - no good for multiple players

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: January 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, except for one glaring problem: when multiple humans are playing, one is assigned the space bar as a ring in key. This key always reacts slower than the other keys (control and alt), making mult-player games frustrating.

The same Jeopardy you've seen on TV, except for a few flaws

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: March 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

All in all, a fun game set up just about exactly as the tv show goes. But I ran into a couple of problems. As a previous reviewer mentioned, the "alt" key is considerably slower than the space bar when ringing in and playing against an opponent. This gives an obvious disadvantage to the player stuck with that control. Another is in the variety of questions. For some reason, I know many more answers when I watch the show on tv, versus playing the cd rom (which could be my fault, I'll admit!)but I believe that the questions here are more difficult. Also, I have had "repeat" questions come up from previous games, though I've probably played the game no more than a dozen times.

Good product ... but some definite flaws

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I like the Jeopardy CD-Rom game and find it vastly improved over a very old floppy disk version I've played. However, I find it extremely annoying that entire categories repeat themselves frequently, making it impossible to play fairly with other people when you already have seen the answers. Also, on my computer, the player with the control key seems to have a big advantage over the player with the space bar, and overall I have found the questions to be way too easy. I also find that the computer players frequently make ridiculous wagers when they hit the daily doubles. It is not unusual for them to wager all their money when they already have a big lead and take themselves completely out of the game if they miss; nobody in real life would be that stupid. On the positive side, this game closely resembles the TV version, the graphics are crisp and it's easy to play. Just don't expect it to do anything towards preparing you to go on TV and play for real.

Pretty good if you like "Jeopardy!"

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by saying that no game show computer game can be spectacular or addictive. It just can't be realistic enough.

But Jeopardy is about as good as a game show computer game can get. The questions are realistic (I think that they are actual show questions) and the opponents are tough enought to beat you more than half the time, if you want to set the difficulty high enough. That is my favorite feature of the game -- it is not too easy to win every time.

Another feature that I like is that you can set the spelling strictness to the level that you like. It is rare that you get a question wrong because you misspelled the word. That is a nice feature.

I haven't played the game enough to see the categories repeat themselves. That is a problem with every computer game of this type, and there is basically no way around that.

I give this game a three, which is about the highest rating that I would give a game show game.

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