We all do. Numbers are the name of the game in the electronic table top version of the TV fix-of-the-year - allegedly. Chris Tarrant asks the questions and badgers you about whether it's your final answer, stretching things out to longer than they need be, such as waffling about how "Player 1 - You are still in the game", in a manner that makes him sound like Yoda ! Why can't a button press skip this and all of Tarrant's other waffle as it becomes as much a pain as the "opening door" sequence in all the Resident Evil games which never goes away.

There are 1500 questions here - with an option to buy further separate packs - simply actioned by inserting the required question card and typing in the five-letter code. When the game is up and running, the logistics are intuitive enough, including the option to tell Tarrant that, yes, it is your final answer and you can pause the game too.

The option of 50/50 plays the same way, while "Ask the Audience" has Chris informing you which is the "most popular answer", which is the "second most..", then third and least popular answers, with no percentages given; and "Phone a Friend" doesn't bring up a random voice as in the console game, but requires you to actually ask somebody during the same period of 30 seconds they give you in the TV show.

As a game, it's pointless. You won't win any real money, except the 'advantage' this has over the console version is the ability to hand each other fake cheques with the wrong date on - since each episode of the TV gameshow is filmed at least a day in advance. Also, here you're able to win any amount. On the PC, Playstation and Dreamcast, you could only win one of four possible amounts - £0, £1000, £32000 and £1 million - since there was no "I'll take the £64,000 and go Chris", listed here as a "go home" option, because there's no point. However, if you want to bow out in this game, you can do.

If not fulfilling a life of monetary dreams wasn't enough, Tarrant's constant delaying doesn't make you want to play the game more and more (like people seem to want to do with the TV version judging by the ratings), it just irritates you and the fact that the actual words and FX coming out sound like they're playing on a dodgy Medium Wave radio. The plastic flap over the game buttons also has a tendancy to fall off.

As a result, this plays like a poor man's Trivial Pursuit. Buy that one instead - it's much more entertaining.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

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