Who Wants To Be A Millionaire series
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
The game is based on the hit TV quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? PC and Console games players can now experience for themselves the excitement and tension of the TV show as they try and win one million…
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a quiz/trivia developed by Hothouse Creations, released 23 November 1999 on Dreamcast, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a quiz/trivia game developed by Hothouse Creations and released in 1999. It was published by Disney Interactive. It is available on Dreamcast, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is based on the hit TV quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? PC and Console games players can now experience for themselves the excitement and tension of the TV show as they try and win one million virtual pounds. The UK version of the game features audio clips of the TV show's host Chris Tarrant, who will be asking the questions, giving the answers, and of course, uttering the famous line, "Is that your final answer?"; other localized versions have different hosts/voices, in addition to using questions suitable for each country.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players.
Where it sits in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire series
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is the first of 43 entries we hold in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire series. The next entry was Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition in 2000. Its critic score of 60 is 20 points above the series average of 40. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
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How it was received
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 28% of the 116 rated quiz/trivia games in our database, which average 64. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
What it launched against
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire launched on 23 November 1999, within three weeks of Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version and Quake III Arena. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Unreal Tournament, Pokémon Gold Version, Pokémon Silver Version, Quake III Arena.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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