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?. It was created by Hypnotix, and released in 2000 by Simon & Schuster Interactive for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Sega Dreamcast.

Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire
North American Dreamcast cover art
Developer(s)Hypnotix
Publisher(s)Simon & Schuster Interactive
Platform(s)Windows 95, Dreamcast
Release
Genre(s)Action
Mode(s)Single-player, Multiplayer

While the Microsoft Windows versions feature mainly 2D-animation and menus, the Dreamcast version mainly uses 3D models for the player, as well as 3D environments and the millionaires you beat up in 3D, rather than 2D-animation in the PC version.

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to answer multiple-choice questions correctly, by using a buzzer to answer. 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.

Lifelines

Like its more serious (and non-violent) real-life counterpart, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? gives the contestants "lifelines" to help them out if they get stumped. The three lifelines 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

Reception

IGN rated the game 5.7 (Mediocre) for lack of replayability.[3]

References
  1. IGN; IGN.com: Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire
  2. "Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire for PC". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  3. Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?


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