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{{Infobox video game
|title = Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire
| image = Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire front cover (Sega Dreamcast).jpg
| image_size = 256px
| caption = North American Dreamcast cover art
| developer = [[Company:Hypnotix|Hypnotix]]
| publisher = Simon & Schuster Interactive
| engine = 
| platforms = [[Software:Windows 95|Windows 95]], [[Engineering:Dreamcast|Dreamcast]]
| released = '''Windows 95'''{{vgrelease|NA|August 8, 2000<ref>IGN; [https://web.archive.org/web/20020222012150/http://pc.ign.com/objects/014/014784.html IGN.com: Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire]</ref>}}'''Dreamcast'''{{vgrelease|NA|2000}}
| genre = Action
| modes = Single-player, [[Software:Multiplayer video game|Multiplayer]]
| designer =
}}
'''''Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?''''' is a  [[Engineering:Video game|video game]] parody of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''. It was created by [[Company:Hypnotix|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 mainly uses 3D models for the player, as well as 3D environments and the millionaires the player beats 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 [[Engineering:Buzzer|buzzer]] to answer. Following this, the player [[Social:Assault|assault]]s 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===
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==
*Egregious Philin, host and parody of Regis Philbin
*Sheik Abdul Chickpea, a [[Place:Middle East|Middle East]]ern [[Chemistry:Oil|oil]] magnate
*Daisey Mae LePlume, a parody of Anna Nicole Smith
*Rich Littleweasel III, a generic trust fund kid
*Melvin Dotcom, a parody of [[Biography:Bill Gates|Bill Gates]]
*Ronald Hump, a parody of Donald Trump

==Reception==
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| GR = PC: 30%<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gamerankings.com/pc/371475-who-wants-to-beat-up-a-millionaire/index.html |title=Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire for PC |website=GameRankings |publisher=CBS Interactive |access-date=2018-10-03}}</ref>
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''IGN'' rated the game 5.7 (Mediocre) for lack of replayability.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020222013249/http://pc.ign.com/articles/164/164784p1.html Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire?]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20021205195022/http://hypnotix.com/code/Games_Millionaire.htm Hypnotix Inc. page]
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277439/ Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire on IMDB]

[[Category:Parody video games]]
[[Category:Windows games]]
[[Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games]]



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