Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire is a video game parody of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire developed by Hypnotix, and released in 2000 by Simon & Schuster Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Sega Dreamcast. While the Microsoft Windows versions feature mainly 2D animation and menus, the Dreamcast version uses 3D models for the player, as well as 3D environments and the millionaires the player beats up, rather than 2D animation in the PC version.
Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?
- Date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Genre
- puzzle video game
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Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire is a video game parody of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire developed by Hypnotix, and released in 2000 by Simon & Schuster Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Sega Dreamcast. While the Microsoft Windows versions feature mainly 2D animation and menus, the Dreamcast version uses 3D models for the player, as well as 3D environments and the millionaires the player beats up, rather than 2D animation in the PC version.
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• Title — Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire • Developer — Hypnotix • Platforms — Microsoft Windows, Dreamcast • Released — Windows August 8, 2000Dreamcast October 2000 • Genre — Action • Modes — Single-player, Multiplayer
Gameplay
Gameplay
The objective of the game is to answer multiple-choice questions correctly by using a buzzer. Following this, the player assaults another player's character. The objective of the game is to assault another player sufficiently so that they drop off the game's ladder, a parody of the real show's question ladder. The last player is the winner.
Lifeboats
Lifeboats
Like its more serious (and non-violent) real-life counterpart, Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire gives the contestants "lifelines" (also known in-game as "lifeboats") to help them out if they get stumped. The three lifeboats are: • One or the other: Eliminates two incorrect answers, analogous to the 50:50 lifeline on the real game show. • Pass the buck and chicken out: Give the question to another contestant or swap the question out for a new one, analogous to the Switch the Question lifeline on the original show. • Fortune cookie: Gives the player a hint.
Characters
Characters
• Egregious Philin, host and parody of Regis Philbin • Sheik Abdul Chickpea, a Middle Eastern oil magnate • Daisey Mae LePlume, a parody of Anna Nicole Smith • Rich Littleweasel III, a generic trust fund kid • Melvin Dotcom, a parody of Bill Gates • Ronald Hump, a parody of Donald Trump
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Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire? published.
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Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire? is recorded as published in 2000.
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The game received unfavorable reviews to overwhelming dislike on both platforms.
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The circumstances in which Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire? Stands. Published by Simon & Schuster. Issued for Microsoft Windows. Recorded as video game. Developed by Hypnotix. Classed in the genre puzzle video game. Associated with United States.
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- “Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.That [Had] Better Be Your Final Answer As "Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire" Makes Its Debut On The PC And Sega Dreamcast. Simon & Schuster Interactive. August 8, 2000.
- 2.https://web.archive.org/web/20020426140109/http://www.chipsworld.co.uk/detProd.asp?ProductCode=4115
- 3.CBS Interactive. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire for PC. GameRankings.
- 4.Thompson, Jon. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire (DC) - Review. AllGame. All Media Network.
- 5.Wigmore, Glenn. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire (PC) - Review. AllGame. All Media Network.
- 6.Navarro, Alex. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire (PC). Gamecenter. CNET. August 29, 2000.
- 7.Yans, Cindy. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire. Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. September 10, 2000.
- 8.Sewart, Greg. Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire. Electronic Gaming Monthly. Ziff Davis. 139. 133. February 2001.
- 9.Koval, Rob. Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire (PC). The Electric Playground. Greedy Productions Ltd. August 31, 2000.
- 10.Walker, Trey. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire Review (PC). GameSpot. Fandom. September 11, 2000.
- 11.Blevins, Tal. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire? (PC). IGN. Ziff Davis. August 15, 2000.
- 12.Imagine Media. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?. PC Gamer. 2000.
- 13.Woods, Dave. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?. PC Zone. Dennis Publishing. 96. 90. December 2000.
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