Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

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Summary: Who wants to be cheated?
Review: 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?

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Summary: GOOD GAME BUT MY AUNT HATES IT
Review: Let's face it i'm a giant Millionaire fan and was so psyched when the cdrom game came out. When I have time I still play it. But i'll tell who was the big naysayer when I played it. My aunt actually couldn't answer all the questions and couldn't even get past the FF round then finally got discouraged when Regis gave her the wrong answer. But what can you expect from a not really true Millionaire fan who was smart than her true fan niece. But with my help my aunt knew how to play. This is a really cool game which I think is really easy. Now if a Meredith Veira hosted 4th edition comes out

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Summary: FUN IF YOU CAN DEAL WITH QUESTIONS THAT REPEAT
Review: This is the only game of the Millionaire series that actually made me happy and actually a fan of Regis Philbin. But the happiness was short-lived when I noticed that some of the questions repeated repeated and repeated. I mean like a broken record but anyway I actually won the milllion over the weekend with help from my Dad and boy were we whooping with joy when I won or shall I say we won. Then by the next days I played it it would suddenly freeze and shut down but I didn't mind starting it again. The only drawback I have is as with all the games in the Millionaire series is WHY OH WHY don't they put the whooping sound that signals the end of the show when you quit. The most wonderful part is the way Regis thanks you for winning by saying I love you and I wondered why he didn't blow you a kiss. A great game for any Regis Phibin or Millionaire fan.
Enjoy,
Regis {REGIS PHILBIN'S #1 FAN AND PROUD TO BE}
P.S. Don't forget to head out to the new Who Wants to be a Millionaire Play It live show At Walt Disney World and also at Disney's California Adventure

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Summary: Great Black Screen to Go with Every Question!
Review: We got this game free in a box of Corn Chex. We thought, Oh this will be fun since the show is cool. So we got home and played it and it was so annoying! There's just like a black screen before and after the question shows up and a black background. Just, don't buy it if you want to have any fun.

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Summary: This Game is Okay but just okay wait for sale
Review: This game isnt that bad but I have only had it for one day. It crashed first time before I even got first question, then when i finally hit the million it crashed again still saved my status but I didnt get to see my check or much fanfare. As for repetitive questions yes I got some after a few times playing, but I did get some new ones thats why I only hit the mill once. Regarding timer you can always pause and look up the answer if u memorized question. And as far as Regis being rude yes he is but it makes the game fun thats what I like about you dont know jack (another jellyvision game) dont take it so seriously people , but if you are sensitive or playing with kids then well there should be a warning I guess.I gave the game 3 stars just because I felt sorry for it. Prob would of gotten more sorry stars if it wasnt from Disney.

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Summary: Who Wants to Be Dissapointed?
Review: Since this game was developed by Jellyvision, and since I run the only website about their You Don't Know Jack games (I don't know if Amazon let's you post URLs) I was looking forward to this title. Let's just say that, it was a dissapointment. The questions repeated ad nauseum, the opening 5 questions, which are supposed to be really easy, were real tough, and Regis didn't really appear in the game. His voice just popped in from time to introduce the next question, but he doesn't actually read the questions. (And he seemed a bit more sarcastic than usual.)

Basically, this game has the soul of Jack but it's trapped in Regis' body. I think maybe Disney Interactive didn't give Jellyvision a lot of time to get this out the door, but here's hoping that they learned from their mistakes.

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Summary: Insipid version of a passing fad
Review: When Millionaire first was on in the summer of 1999, I was thoroughly addicted. This was novel, new television. Now, of course, it's repetitive and boring, but for a while there was really a spark there.

The computer game, however, always.... It hogged memory, was hard to control, and wasn't very much fun. It's sad, but the online free version at ABC.com was a lot more fun. I generally don't like games where there's no flexibility and very little fun, so if you're like me (and I would hope so!), avoid this one!

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Summary: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? . . . I Do, I Do!
Review: "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is equal parts fun and frustrating. It's fun because you get to test your knowledge and see just how smart you are. It's great for getting your heart beating. But it's also frustrating because it makes you feel like such an idiot at times. "If only I would have used one of my lifelines instead of guessing on the $64,000 question. What was I thinking?!"

I have expressed my frustrations more than once while playing this game. But that's good. It just makes me want to beat it even more!

The game plays just like the TV show. For single players, you're thrown into the hot-seat immediately. But for multiple players, you have to play the Fastest-Finger Game, something that I seem to get beat at a lot. For this review, we'll just say I won the Fastest-Finger Round. Hey, I feel like a millionaire already!

Just like the TV show, you pit your skills against what the computer has to offer. A negative thing about this is that you don't get all the time in the world to guess the answer like people do on TV; you only get 30 seconds, which can be irritating sometimes.

Let's say you decide to use one of your lifelines. The trick here is that using a lifeline doesn't always assure you of the right answer! It's not a trick by the designers; all the questions you are asked by the computer were asked of hundreds of people before the game was brought out. The actual figures you're given, for example, when you use the "ask the audience" lifeline are real figures. So it is possible for 90% of the audience to go with an answer and still be wrong. Only until you've played the game do you realize how FRUSTRATING that can be.

Regis Philbin commentates throughout this game like he does on the TV show, and here he is both funny and a pest. Depending on your mood, you'll find his wisecracks after you've crashed and burned for the 100th time either acceptable or annoying.

About the only actual negative thing about this game is that once you have played it enough times, it gets WAY to easy. There are only around 200 questions total, and so they just keep getting recycled. After having played for a short while, the first five or so questions are a snap. They shouldn't be, however. Games like this should be a challenge.

But there is still enough fun in it for a person to enjoy. The questions do get harder as you go along, and your heartrate and pulse do start to rise as you inch your way closer and closer to the million. Of course, it's only a game, you keep telling yourself. But still - a million dollars, real or otherwise, is still a million dollars!

Despite its few shortcomings, this game is a lot of fun to play. Personally, I think this game should have come with a lot more questions instead of forcing the buyer to buy the 2nd, 3rd, Sports, Kids, and whatever other versions of the game that are out on the market.

Regardless, there is still enough challenge and charm in this game to play it multiple times. And finally winning the million does bring a great deal of satisfaction. Even if all you get is an imaginary check.

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Summary: SMALL AMMOUNT OF QUESTIONS
Review: THIS GAME LACKS QUESTIONS,AND REPEATS THEM OVER AND OVER,200 QUESTIONS? MORE LIKE 40,BUT REGIS IS HILARIOUS! BUT THE FASTEST FINGER IS WAY OFF,I HAVE NO OTHER COMPLAINTS EXCEPT THE LACK OF QUESTIONS AND THE FF ROUND.

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Summary: I'm never one to hate a game, but......
Review: I am 15 years old. This is my first review (out of about 30) that is a 1-star review. And I have 18 (give or take a few) reasons why I hate this game so much:
1. After the first game, the questions started repeating. The game is basically the same 40 questions over and over again.
2. You can't skip the introduction. I know it's not too long, but you'd think that with today's technology there'd be an option to skip it.
3. Regis is appallingly rude. Once I won nothing and he said, "Welll, there you go. Don't spend it all in one place. In fact, don't spend it at all. Put it in the bank! In 40 years, maybe you'll be able to afford a marble or something!"
4. Once a $200 question appeared later as a $32,000 question. Um, that's not good.
5. The questions from $100 to $1,000 are too difficult (compared to the show). For example, the show had a $1,000 question that was "How many legs does a spider have?" But the game had a $1,000 question that was "What kind of object is a 'ginsu'?"
6. Once again, Regis is appallingly rude. Once I won $1,000 and he said, "Not bad, But at least you should've known the last one. Come on! Or at least you should've GUESSED better!"
7. Regis only says "Is that your final answer?" whenever he wants to. Most of the time, your first answer IS your final answer, even if you happened to hit the wrong button by mistake.
8. There's a ridiculous time limit of 30 seconds per question. I've seen people on the show take as long as 17 minutes.
9. The Fastest Finger mode is a joke. You're supposed to hit a letter key when you think the four answers are in the correct sequence. You don't actually put them in order.
10. Regis is appallingly impatient. If you take too long on certain things (like the Fastest Finger mode, or saying how many contestants will play), he'll say, "This game is over! I'm outta here!", and the game quits on you. Yep, you're back to Windows! And guess what? Once you load it back up again.....
11. ......you'll have to sit through the introduction again!
12. There's a general lack of options. When you hit the Escape key, you bring up the option menu, and you have these options: Volume Up, Volume Down, Resume, Start Over, Quit. There's no way to make the questions easier or harder, and there's no way to skip the introduction.
13. Speaking of which, when you select Start Over, the whole program starts over. Yep, you'll have to sit through the introduction again!
14. Once again, Regis is appallingly impatient. If you take too long to write your name, Regis will say, "Come on, it's not a big deal", or "This isn't a trick question, what's your name?" If you take too long, he'll type whatever he wants (e.g. Kathie Lee Gifford).
15. When you use the Phone-a-Friend Lifeline, Regis calls one of HIS friends and they start chatting a little before they get to the question. Then he'll say to his friend, "I've got a question for you", as if you're not even there. I mean, come on, it's YOUR lifeline, not Regis's!
16. What's wrong with having an option to use the mouse?
17. When you say "yes" to the instructions, Regis only gives them to you once. This is especially annoying in the Fastest Finger mode, in which you're pretty much doomed to load the game up again once it quits.
18. Did I mention that Regis is appallingly rude and impatient?
Well, there you have it. This review pretty much goes to ALL the games in this series (19. The makers were kind enough to make more than one edition of this trash). One of the few redeeming qualities of this game is the CD has pretty art on one side. That way, the CD makes a colorful, if fragile Frisbee. Aside from "Treasure Mathstorm!" and all the other "games" in that series, this is the lamest excuse for a game I have ever played. And that is my final answer!