Game Boy Color Longplay [101] Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - 2nd Edition

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Played by: Mariofan98
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is a brilliant and deceptively simple trivia game, a joy for the whole family and a challenge of wits for even the biggest brainiack. The home game dutifully captures all of the nail-biting tension and heartbreak of the series,
with a few major missteps and some slack production values that constantly remind you that it's all just a game.
To its credit, the gameplay is beat by skipped beat akin to the television show. The tension in any round of questioning couldn't be cut with a chainsaw. Thanks to the development assistance from JellyVision, who really know how to step on a man when he's down (expertise learned from several incarnations of the You Don't Know Jack game show series), every given second can be stretched and wrapped around your throat. When you're stumped on a question, Regis pipes in with jibes and cut-downs that make you wish you were back in mommy's hugging arms. Even when you lose the game, the put-downs don't stop until you're half the man you thought you were.
In my country, Germany is called the show "Wer wird Millionar" and starts on the TV on September 3, 1999 on RTL Television.
This longplay is my first passage through the game. -
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[@Dr.ruby7LT]

R.I.P.
Regis Philbin😭

[@simplyrenirambus2982]

Jake Kaufman's GB/GBC rendition of the music 😊👌

[@danalong1237]

The 🎶 for the show was originally composed by Keith and Matthew Strachan. Today, the 🎶 for the show is composed by Ah2 Music's Mark T. Williams and Jeff Lippencott.

[@glitchedblood]

@@danalong1237 not anymore

[@troyandrew6154]

9:17
Rest in peace, regis

[@LunalynDragon]

i like how this manages to be a better interpretation of the show than the fucking 2020 version.

[@GIGASPACEBLOB]

Don’t worry, Jimmy Kimmel fixed that for you.

[@PhoenixFlamez07]

I had this game. Eventually I memorised all the questions and was a millionaire too many times to count. How I wish it was legit $ lol

[@franktruth9639]

How old were you when you played this?
I was around 7, and could NEVER get the million by myself.
Please tell me you were older otherwise I'll feel dumb lol

[@PhoenixFlamez07]

@@franktruth9639 I was around 9/10 it was the game I got to pick at the flea market for Christmas.

[@DSMTheEditor]

Aside from the questions repeating, a rather impressive conversion of the Jellyvision console/PC game, certainly some effort went into it, unlike a lot of GBC licensed fare

[@occono3543]

I wonder if the questions would repeat less if it had a better RNG. It's actually tough to code an RNG on this basic hardware, they'd be better off just asking you to input a random word every time you play.

[@BloisMarty]

Bring your gameboy to the bank and see if they'll honor that cheque.

[@MouseQueen86]

Who honestly didn’t get pumped up at that opening music and leading to the title screen of the game? Man... never won this game but definitely remember enjoying it! :)

[@DespyCL]

Tbh the music is pretty good and catchy. Brb downloading the gbs rip right now.

[@BradTheProducer]

That's Virt! He also did the soundtrack to Shovel Knight!

[@DespyCL]

@@BradTheProducer That's the composer name? And woah! That's actually pretty interesting!

[@danalong1237]

You’re referring to Jacob “Jake” Kaufman, who did a great job arranging the Keith & Matthew Strachan-composed theme song.

[@rubiks_20]

No wonder why this music used so many arps.

[@607]

Yess, Game Boy Color longplays!
Then again, I also like being surprised IRL by seeing games I've never seen before, so this will give some of them away... ;) but then at least I can guess better whether I want to buy it or not!

[@JESSEQUEST]

4:39 DSP trying to figure out how to use rations in MGS

[@TheXenogearsV]

It's me. MARIOOOOOO

[@sergejgajic]

its a me! regis phibin

[@Amonimus]

So out of 15, I didn't know about 6. Interesting how fast you've got through it on the first try.

[@belstar1128]

It is so strange that the best graphics on the game boy color are from shovelware games like this a lot of the good more popular game boy color games look like typical 8 bit games is so weird.

[@MilkerMurphy]

It's not strange. These graphics require storage space and other games fill it up with GAMEPLAY.

[@adamhenry6793]

Regis Philben!

[@shaneofthemariofans.7524]

0:36 WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?

[@MouseQueen86]

Let’s hear it for bit-crushed Regis!! Lol

[@berlinlomong-oy6291]

THAT INTRO IS SO AWSOME!!!

[@utubchanel2178]

Why is the music so awesome?

[@LeonYT.]

Memeable

[@mariofan98]

I had this longplay already recorded in April 2015.

[@LeotheTiger1234]

R.I.P. Regis Philbin.

[@R0GU3ST4TU5]

I remember playing this, living out of car with my mom as a young kid.

[@boru25]

Wait this show had a video game adaption?

[@Retrotude]

Yep, a pretty large number of them too across platforms spanning from PS1 and PC to DVD Player games.

[@boru25]

@@Retrotude Oh Yea I forgot there where DVD games.

I was playing it for the Wii, And I'm lost at Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

[@retrokrazygaming1825]

And voila, as easy as that you win a million. You are very knowledgable. 😁 It would have been cool to see what happens when you use the lifelines too.

[@AllGamesAllMusicAllTime]

I currently think this music should increase pitches on the middle and last 5 questions.

[@lorenzomaringandica2332]

3D!!!!

[@FOXDIEGAMINGNetwork]

Badass!

[@mtm1359]

Millionaire

[@LeotheTiger1234]

I only had the PC versions, but I also got to where I was consistently winning $1 million without a lifeline, just like John Carpenter. (Alternatively, I would use a lifeline just to see what happened.)

[@Shimospeher]

Ahhh lost at 32 000, fuking Bonanza :D

[@ChiefCodee]

0:25

[@SpiritYT]

That freaking awful track loop lmao

[@tomypower4898]

Yes new moves

[@SergioCordova526]

this nes

[@emky]

6:25 ; 6:42

[@benjamintu3214]

0:36 9:15

[@arcturusx5474]

the should rename this game: who wants to be bored

[@reshirockzero4869]

You sure it's "recall" and not "rename"?

[@arcturusx5474]

@@reshirockzero4869 hahahahahahahaha, yeah

[@blundkurkuky7667]

The GBC music sucks