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Who Wants To Get Ripped-Off

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 48 / 50
Date: December 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This CD-Rom (from the makers of the great "You Don't Know Jack" series) is a huge disappointment! Because of the huge amount of data required for the annoying "Phone-A-Friend" feature, the number of questions on the disc is drastically reduced. As noted in other reviews here -- the first 10 questions literally repeat in consecutive games!

The sound and graphics are merely o.k and Regis is as smarmy as ever.

Beware of any title that can be prepared in such a short amount of time. Clearly intended to simply ride the "Millionaire" wave through the holiday shopping season.

Fun, but could be more...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 35 / 35
Date: November 26, 1999
Author: Amazon User

"Who Want's To Be a Millionaire" is a fun game. It has most of the major features of the show. As you would expect the lifelines, 15 questions etc.. There are a few things that you'll probably want to know though. I thought that it was rather annoying that there is a time limit for answering each question. (30 sec). Also, if you're used to easy questions at the beginning the game's questions at the beginning are a little harder than what you see on the show.

Next, questions at the beginning tend to repeat themselves after a while. (I just played for one day, and already started getting repeats, mostly at under $1000) The set of question's after the $1000 mark are almost always new.

I think the game mixes up the questions so you don't have the same set of questions twice, but you do get annoyed when you see a $1000 dollar question you've seen before as a $100 question.

The game also lacks a feature of the show or at least could have done it better. The fastest finger part of the game is designed for a lot of people. The order of the answers switches on the screen and you push a letter and whoever get's it first wins. For example if I push "A" and get if before the other people I win.

Ideally I think they could have had this feature where the other players are the computer. You see the question and answers on the screen and put them in order by pushing the corresponding keys. Eg. A,C,E,D.

In closing, I think the game is fun and definitely not bad for $20. If they make a new version they should have more questions, try to make questions not repeat as much, and make a better fastest finger where you play against the computer. Also make no time limit or at least a longer one.

They could have made this game better. They probably put it out in a hurry. The game is still fun and worth a try. Hopefully they will make a new version with some of the features that are missing in this one.

Good thing it's cheap...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 45 / 51
Date: December 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I've heard about people spending as much as $40 for this game...more fool they.

I've played about 20 games so far, and have yet to have a repeated question, but I'm sure that's due to change. I have a few other gripes:

First off, it's impossible to tourn the speech off. Sure, I can turn off my speakers, but then the silent game will pause whenever Regis is speaking. I'd rather just *play* the game, and not have to put up with Regis' generally unfunny banter. This is a contrast to other Jellyvision games (such as You Don't Know Jack) where the announcer is fun to listen to. And, strangely, Regis doesn't actually ask the questions -- they're text only. However, if you use your "phone a friend" option, the "friend" will comment specifically on the question. Why not Regis? It doesn't make a lot of sense.

Unlike most games on the market, one cannot skip past the initial intro to the game, nor the logos of the game's producers. This means a few minutes of wasted time while loading up the program.

The questions are also of strangely varying difficulty, too, much like John Carpenter's million-dollar win compared to (say) Matt Marcotte's 250K win. I've been able to win the million once with a terrifically easy question (what was the first Swanson's TV dinner?) and also lost out on the initial $100 question (what month is traditionally the most popular for weddings?).

And, finally, as with the TV show, the game is very Ameri-centric. At least a third of the questions centre around US politics, history, sports, or geography. I'm a Canadian. What do I know from the Green Bay Packers?

The game's likely to run out of interest in a couple of days, but on the other hand, it would have cost me roughly the same to buy two or three paperback novels. I'm glad that I'll be able to resell it for not much less than I paid for it.

NO QUESTIONS!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 36 / 43
Date: December 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game had lots of potential! Regis is exciting in the game, the graphics are nice (although they never change), and it's fun! However, questions repeat and repeat and repeat! IT IS NO FUN! If winning a Million was this easy the show wouldn't even be on! LOL THIS GAME REALLY NEEDS IMPROVEMENT! IT SHOULDN'T BE LEGAL!

Enjoyable for a Few Days

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 22 / 22
Date: December 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Here are the pluses of this game:

1.) The graphics, sound and music are identical to those of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. This creates the feeling that you are really on the show. The first ten times I played it, I had a blast.

2.) Regis Philbin is very funny in this game. He is much funnier in this game than he is on the show.

3.) This game follows the format of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire exactly. Thus, if you enjoy the show, you should enjoy the game, at least at the beginning.

Here are the minuses of this game:

1.) The questions repeat after only 10-15 games. It is therefore only enjoyable for a few days (or a few weeks, if you can limit the number of times you play each time).

2.) The questions are MUCH harder than the ones on the show. Unless you're a Jeopardy champion, you won't have much a chance of winning this game on the first try (that is, until the questions start repeating). Many people will not enjoy the game for this reason.

3.) You are not allowed to use the mouse in this game, only the keyboard, which is awkward.

I would recommend not buying this game until it is improved. Given its strong sales, it wouldn't surprise me if they released an improved version (with more questions) within the next couple of months.

Very Much Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 21
Date: May 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is not compatible with Windows XP as stated. When installing, error message appears stating that it is not compatible with Windows XP.

Needs more questions

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 35 / 43
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is just like the TV version. You run out of questions too soon. If there were more questions, this game would be fabulous.

You can have mine for free!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 20
Date: December 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This was the worst $ I've ever spent. The graphics are fine for the first hour, but then the questions repeat, repeat, repeat.

The questions are very simplistic and are not similar at all to those on the show.

Save your money here and buy Jeopardy!

PS - I love the TV show - just hate this game.

Good, but needs more work

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 25 / 28
Date: January 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First and foremost, the game needs more material. The questions repeat WAY too much than they ought to. Computer games I have from ten years ago don't repeat this often! The other problem with the game is that Regis does not ask you, "Is that your final answer?" until you answer at $500,000. He should start saying that at the $1,000 level. Regis also doesn't read the question, and the questions are timed. On the show, you could use the whole show on one question, though I'm sure they'd edit that down to an extent. But the game is pretty good. What they need to do is cut down on phone-a-friends (they have four per question!), and do more on the game material. But I did get to the million before the game started repeating, and so I'm glad of that.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 21 / 22
Date: January 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Great game but...not nearly enough questions. After a couple of hours almost all questions are repeats.

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