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The Free Internet Version is Better!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 21
Date: December 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

After playing watching the show, and playing the 15 games or so you can play for free with your browser on the ABC "Who wants to be a millionaire?" website, I bought this game and was very disappointed.

The biggest disappointment, is that they recycle the questions. After just a few games, you start seeing some of the same questions, which just ruins the fun. Also, there doesn't seem to be that many questions overall.

I had more fun playing the free game on the Internet which I highly recommend, esp. if you have a high-speed connection because it loads very fast.

The best part of the game was the virtual Regis and the music.

Great, but needs improvements

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 26 / 32
Date: March 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm a little disappointed I spent [money] on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, however, I have read the reviews on this site, and I'd like to make a few comments. First of all, yes, the number of available questions is too low, but it takes up a lot of space on the CD for each question. The Phone-a-friend lifeline, for instance, plays a sound file. FOR EACH QUESTION. If you wanted 2,500 questions, the game would need to ship on 15 CD's! It's forgivable, considering the overall quality of everything else in the game, but I think people who buy this game should be entitled to free updates/replacements when the improved version of WWTBAM is released.

Overall, very fun and true to the show, but very limited number of questions, the fact that they didn't include a SKIP button for some graphics/sound (does Regis EVER stop talking? ^_^), and a horrible multiplayer mode, detracts from what could otherwise be a very enjoyable game.

If Price was "Free," You STILL LOSE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: December 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Looks good and all down hill from there. Played it six times, yes six, and then the questions repeated themselves. A genuine, first class, ripoff. Save your $$$$.

There should br a free update

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: January 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for a friend and we played only 6 rounds before starting to get repeat questions. It was very disappointing. They should have allowed you to run the game from your hard drive and included an additional database cd with more questions. If it wasn't for the repeats this would have been a very cool game.

Who Wants to Be a Sucker?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 22
Date: March 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

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We had a lot of fun with this game...for the first hour. Then, we started seeing the same questions over and over again. By the time we had played for several hours, every question up through about the $32,000 level was a "repeat".

Another disappointment: you have to read the questions yourself. That may sound like a minor issue, but I bought the Jeopardy game the same day, and it's really helpful to have the audio when you're racing the clock.

Save your money; Millionaire is a bust even though it's commercial free. Maybe Millionaire 2 will have some improvements.

Worst Game I have ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 23
Date: January 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game has some serious installation problems. You first get an error "App.zip" cannot be installed. Then you get to figure out how to copy the files from the CD manually to a directory six files deep on the hard drive. Then the game failed to launch. I then disabled every program in memory and it finally launched. After playing this repetitive - terrible game for a while - we shut the computer off and then the game refused to launch again. We reinstalled the game several times and then it worked again.

This game has bugs galore and was obviously rushed to market. Their Web site has very little information on resolving the problems and after six days of e-mailing them I still don't have any replies. I want my money back!

BORING, DISAPPOINTING, and out $20.00

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 23
Date: February 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Loaded up the game at 5:00. Saw the first repeat question at 5:20. No joke. The questions were ok the first time they came up, but after a couple hours, anyone who can remember their phone number can get to the big one. We had heard negative reviews, but love the tv game, and decided to give it a shot. It was a $20.00 mistake. You'll read some positive reviews, but in all honesty I feel this game is a con. I cannot believe they didnt have some sort of testing done before release. It is sad.

Who wants to be cheated?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: March 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Frankly, I was absolutely happy to get this computer game and play it. Was I ever wrong. You have to go through 3 minutes of the numbers flying past you and finally Regis asking you if you want to be a millionaire, and you can't skip through there. When you go for the fastest finger, my only advice is DO IT FAST. The slower you get causes Regis to announce he's quitting, which, for your computer, exits the program. Time to load it right back up again! Once you get through it, you're asked to type in your name. Say you're not fast enough - he'll bark at you, "Well, what is it? A fake name's okay too! Hurry up!" So much for slow typists: you better hurry up. Finally, you get to the game and voila! Haven't you seen those questions before? The $100 question basically is easy on some days and sometimes will trip you up immediately - anyone out there know the most populated month for weddings? August. And if you lose your money before the $1000 mark, he'll give you a blank check and tell you he's seen lots of people do better than you - in fact everyone. Or, it's a big check, but only determining on how big your monitor is. And when you get to the million (after his "oh, $8,000 - big deal" or whatever), it's basically a hard question, or easy. It's just plain stupid. Oh, and try to use lifelines. The 50/50 leaves the two hardest-to-pick ones, the Audience is sometimes wrong (I lost on the million dollar question 'cause of them!), and after you call one of his friends, Regis chats with them! Absolutely stupid. There's one question here and if you buy it you'll be the lucky one: Who wants to be cheated?

Only somewhat faithful to show

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: March 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As others have mentioned, this product has serious flaws--especially with regard to the pitiful number of questions available. For me, however, a larger complaint is the surprising unfaithfulness to the show.

The so-called "Fastest Finger" questions are nothing really like those on the show. You don't compete to put the answers in the right order; you just buzz in when the computer flashes up the proper arrangement. It's related to the set of skills necessary on the real show--but it's not the same.

Likewise, when answering questions in the "hot seat", you don't really get the "Is that your final answer?" prompting in a consistent way. Only some of the questions allow for it.

Also, the questions in the pre-$1000 range are unusually difficult, compared with the show. There, they're ridiculously easy, complete with flatly idiotic possible answers. Here, by contrast, the early questions are much more serious. They're still comparatively easy, but they're not the gimmes they are on the real show.

Hopefully, the producers will have found a way to be more faithful to the show--and give us more questions--for the second edition of this game.

I'm Glad it Was Only $20!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: January 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My brother and sister were really excited when I ordered the game for a gift. After we opened it on Christmas morning, we could only stand it for about twenty minutes. The questions were ten times harder than on TV, and we could barely get the fastest finger question to work. I was reassured when I saw the game was made by the creators of "You Don't Know Jack", but the people at Disney must have rushed this product to market. Take your twenty dollars and put it towards another Jellyvision game like "Jack..." or "Headrush". This is the most awful computer software I've ever owned!

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