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EPILEPSY WARNING
Please read before using this video game or allowing your children to use it. Some people are susceptible to epileptic
seizures or loss of consciousness when exposed to certain flashing lights or light patterns in everyday life. Such people
may have a seizure while watching certain monitor images or playing certain video games. This may happen even if the
person has no medical history of epilepsy or has never had any epileptic seizures. If you or anyone in your family has ever
had symptoms related to epilepsy (seizures or loss of consciousness) when exposed to flashing lights, consult your doctor
prior to playing. We advise that parents should monitor the use of video games by their children. If you or your child
experience any of the following symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, eye or muscle twitches, loss of consciousness,
disorientation, any involuntary movement or convulsion, while playing a video game, IMMEDIATELY discontinue use and
consult your doctor.
PRECAUTIONS TO TAKE DURING USE
• Do not stand too close to the screen. Sit a good distance away from the monitor, as far away as the length of the cable
allows.
• Avoid playing if you are tired or have not had much sleep.
• Make sure that the room in which you are playing is well lit.
• Rest for at least 10 to 15 minutes per hour while playing a video game.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
If you require technical assistance, call the Technical Support
helpline on:
0121 356 0831
Or e-mail us on
[email protected]
All telephone charges incurred by you in connection with this facility
will be met by you. Eidos Interactive shall pay postage costs in
returning to you any program which is returned to Eidos Interactive
by you under this agreement but shall not be responsible for postage
costs incurred by you in returning the program to Eidos Interactive.
IMPORTANT - LIMITED WARRANTY
Eidos Interactive Ltd reserves the right to make changes and improvements to this
product at any time and without notice. Eidos Interactive Ltd warrants to the original
purchaser of this product that the physical medium on which the software program in this
product is recorded will under normal use and conditions be free from material defects in
materials and workmanship for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of purchase. The
entire liability of Eidos Interactive Ltd under the limited warranty set out above will be at
its sole option either to repair or to replace free of charge the product provided you return
it in its original condition to the point of purchase with a copy of your receipt.
THIS LIMITED WARRANTY DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS. SUBJECT TO THE
LIMITED WARRANTY ABOVE, THIS PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EIDOS INTERACTIVE
LTD FURTHER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE IMPLIED
BY LAW, STATUTE, CUSTOM OR OTHERWISE) RELATING TO MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY
QUALITY, AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN RESPECT OF THE PRODUCT.
Assistant QA Manager
Assistant QA Manager
QA Co-ordinator
Senior Compatibility
Co-ordinator
Compatibility Engineer
James Featherstone
Jean Yves Duret
Julie Payne
CONTENTS
Introduction................................................................................4
Jason Walker
Phil Spencer
Special Thanks
Jonathan Kemp, Janet Swallow, Dave Rose, Paul Sheppard, Ian Livingstone, Jane Luckcraft,
Jacqui Ralston, Pat Cowan, Louise Fisher, Tim Wapshott, Greg Howson, David Bradley,
Matthew Pierce, Dave Woods.
System Requirements ...............................................................5
Installation .................................................................................6
Starting the Program .................................................................6
Uninstalling ................................................................................7
Main Menu ..................................................................................8
Answering the Questions...........................................................9
Multiplayer Game Types ..........................................................10
Lifelines....................................................................................12
Troubleshooting........................................................................14
Credits ......................................................................................15
Sold Out Customer Support .....................................................19
INTRODUCTION
Hello and welcome to the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? quiz
game. If you’ve seen the show then you can stop reading this
manual. If not, you can probably guess that the main aim is to
win a million pounds. But it’ll take brains and a slice of good
fortune to get you all the way there. Unfortunately the box this
CD came in won’t hold one million pounds, so we’ve given you
the next best thing, a virtual million and a game that will have
you, your friends and your family shouting at your computer
screen. If you’ve ever wanted to be on the show and thought you
could go all the way, now’s your chance to prove it. Do you have
what it takes? We’ll keep our fingers crossed.
Let’s Install... Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Eidos Interactive
Producer
Associate Producer
Executive Producer
Head of Product
Marketing
PR Manager
Assistant PR Manager
Assistant PR Manager
Creative Services
Mike Souto
Mark Christy
Grant Dean
QA Manager
Assistant QA Manager
Senior Lead Tester
Chris Rowley
Neall Jones
Ron Jackson
Karen Ridley
Steve Starvis
Eva Whitlow
Ane Olesen
Matthew CarterJohnson
Caroline Simon
Rob Eyers
Test Engineers
David Pettit
James Thompson
David Babajee
Phil Maskell
Joe Neate
John Wagland
Alex Hood
Andy Secchi
Derren Toussaint
Michael Owusu
Matt Holmes
Lawrence Mastin
Anthony Wicker
Ross Skinner
Abrus Ai
Bachitter Singh
Jassar
Gary Jones
Jaspreet Shaheed
Kashpal Bhogal
Kenny Tang
Celador International
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? format created by David Briggs, Steve Knight,
Mike Whitehill and Paul Smith.
Special thanks to Chris Tarrant.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? licensed by Celador International Limited.
Executive Producer for Celador International, Adrian Woolfe.
Additional thanks to Katherine Arbuthnott, Don Christopher, Kathryn Ferguson,
the Question Team, Jayne Williams and Jen Wynne.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Minimum
• Windows 95/98
• Pentium 266
• 16MB RAM
• 2MB video card (DX7 compliant)
• 70MB HD space
• DX7 compliant Sound Card
Recommended
• Windows 95/98
• DX7 and DXMEDIA installed
• PII 266
• 32MB RAM
• 4MB video card (DX7 compliant)
• 400MB HD space
• DX7 compliant Sound Card
INSTALLING
Insert the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? CD into your CD-ROM drive. If autorun is enabled,
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? will automatically take you into the Autoplay screen. Click on
the install button, then follow the on-screen instructions. If the Autoplay feature has been
disabled, double click on the CD-ROM drive icon from My Computer and follow the on-screen
instructions.
Once installed, click on the Start Menu button, then select the Programs sub-menu. Once in
the programs sub-menu select Eidos Interactive and move through the Hothouse Creations
menu. Then select the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire folder and choose Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire.
STARTING THE PROGRAM
To play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Click on the Start Menu button, then select the Programs sub-menu.
Once in the programs sub-menu select Eidos Interactive and move through the
Hothouse Creations menu. Then select the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire folder and
choose Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Alternatively, open the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire folder, situated in
My Computer C:\Program Files\Eidos Interactive\Hothouse Creations\Who Wants To
Be A Millionaire
CREDITS
Hothouse
Producer - Steve Goss
Assistant Producer - Rob Davies
Programming - Adrian Brown, Adam Dobson, Bill Barna
Artwork - Phil Waymouth
Additional Artwork - Stuart Griffin, Matt Sandford
Script - Rob Davies, Andrew Rilstone, Tomas Rawlings
Voice Casting and Production - Philip Morris at AllintheGame
Voice Artists - David Coker, Simon Greenall, Rachel Preece, Liz Uter
Special thanks to - Gina Schofield, Sarah McKenna, Pete Moreland, Martin Carr,
Jason Stapleton, Stuart Poole, Stuart Collier, 4:2:2 Bristol.
Uses Bink Video. Copyright © 1997-2000 by RAD Game Tools Inc.
Uses Smacker Video Technology. Copyright © 1997-2000 by RAD Game Tools Inc.
TROUBLESHOOTING
UNINSTALLING
Please view the Readme file located at:
To uninstall Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? click on START on the taskbar then select the
Programs sub-menu. Once in the programs sub-menu select Eidos Interactive and move
through the Hothouse Creations menu. Then Select the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire folder
and choose UNINSTALL.
C:\Program Files\Eidos Interactive\Hothouse Creations\Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire
for the latest Troubleshooting information.
MAIN MENU
When the game has loaded you will be given the options, Start
Game, Options or Quit. Make your choice by pressing the letter
on the keyboard corresponding to the orange letter in your
selected option, or by using the mouse pointer to click on the
option. Next you’ll be asked HOW MANY PLAYERS want to play?
If you select one player you go straight in. Only games with
more than one player offer different game types. These are
Fastest Finger, Team and Head to Head Games.
Options Screen
Contains - Continue, Restore, Main Menu and Volume Control
Pause Menu
(Accessed by pressing ESC key during hotseat section)
Contains - Continue, Restore, Main Menu and Volume Control
Ask The Audience lifeline (F3)
Finally you have The Ask The Audience lifeline. We
conducted a poll of 100 people selected at random.
We asked them what they thought the answer to
each question would be. If you choose to ask the
audience you’ll see the results of that poll. Again the
answer may be wrong!
Walk Away
At any time you can choose to stop and walk away and keep the money you’ve won up to
that point. To walk away, just press the W key on the keyboard or click on the Walk Away
symbol with the mouse.
LIFELINES
ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS
If you get stuck you have three lifelines to help, 50:50, Phone-A-Friend and Ask The
Audience. You can use these at any time by hitting the appropriate key; F1 for 50:50, F2 for
Phone-A-Friend and F3 for Ask The Audience, or by clicking on the appropriate lifeline
symbol with the mouse.
Ok, here’s how it works. There are fifteen
questions that will take you, the contestant from
a virtual £100 to £1,000,000. Each question
comes with four possible answers to choose
from. Press the letter of your selection on the
keyboard to give your answer, or just click on the
answer on-screen. If you’re correct you’ll win the
£ value of that question and move on to the next
level. There are two milestone levels, at £1,000
and £32,000. Reach these and you’re
guaranteed to leave with that amount, even if
you give a wrong answer later on. But remember
that as you answer the fifteen questions to reach
a million pounds, the money goes up steeply but
so do the drops.
50:50 lifeline (F1)
If you choose the 50:50 lifeline, the computer will
take away two wrong answers leaving the correct
answer and one remaining wrong answer. To pick your
answer from those remaining, just hit the letter of
your selection on the keyboard or click on the answer
as normal.
Phone-A-Friend lifeline (F2)
If you choose the Phone-A-Friend lifeline, Chris will
call one of ten specially selected friends and ask
them for help. It’s your choice as to whether their
answer is used. It may be wrong!
You can choose to ‘Walk Away’ at any time and
keep the money you have accumulated.
MULTIPLAYER GAME TYPES
Fastest Finger
If more than one player wants to play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, the
players will have to compete in a Fastest Finger round. Each of the
players needs to pick a key on the keyboard to use as their
personal buzzer. Players will then attempt to put a list of
answers to a question in the correct order. The answers will
rotate in a random way. When the player is happy with the
on-screen order they must buzz in. The fastest correct
player will be the contestant in the hotseat. If players get
the answer wrong their key is locked out until either
someone gets it right or all contestants have pressed
their keys.
Team Game
Team Play allows a family or group to put their heads
together and co-operate to achieve that elusive
£1,000,000. Control of the game will rotate around the team
of players, allowing everyone to take a turn to input the answer.
Head to Head
In this mode the Hotseat is passed between contestants to play in turn
against each other, seeing who can race highest up the prize
escalator.
Each player takes it in turn to answer a question. Each
contestant will get a question for £100. Those that get it right
will go through to the next round for £200, and so on until
there’s only one player in the running for the cool million.
Players are eliminated when a question is answered
incorrectly, the player can also choose to walk away at
any time and keep the money already won. The last
remaining player will keep going until they give Chris a
wrong answer or they decide to walk away. Don’t forget
that giving Chris a wrong answer will mean the player drops
back significantly, and could let an opponent catch up. So be
careful. Remember, it’s only easy if you know the answer!
MULTIPLAYER GAME TYPES
Fastest Finger
If more than one player wants to play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, the
players will have to compete in a Fastest Finger round. Each of the
players needs to pick a key on the keyboard to use as their
personal buzzer. Players will then attempt to put a list of
answers to a question in the correct order. The answers will
rotate in a random way. When the player is happy with the
on-screen order they must buzz in. The fastest correct
player will be the contestant in the hotseat. If players get
the answer wrong their key is locked out until either
someone gets it right or all contestants have pressed
their keys.
Team Game
Team Play allows a family or group to put their heads
together and co-operate to achieve that elusive
£1,000,000. Control of the game will rotate around the team
of players, allowing everyone to take a turn to input the answer.
Head to Head
In this mode the Hotseat is passed between contestants to play in turn
against each other, seeing who can race highest up the prize
escalator.
Each player takes it in turn to answer a question. Each
contestant will get a question for £100. Those that get it right
will go through to the next round for £200, and so on until
there’s only one player in the running for the cool million.
Players are eliminated when a question is answered
incorrectly, the player can also choose to walk away at
any time and keep the money already won. The last
remaining player will keep going until they give Chris a
wrong answer or they decide to walk away. Don’t forget
that giving Chris a wrong answer will mean the player drops
back significantly, and could let an opponent catch up. So be
careful. Remember, it’s only easy if you know the answer!
LIFELINES
ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS
If you get stuck you have three lifelines to help, 50:50, Phone-A-Friend and Ask The
Audience. You can use these at any time by hitting the appropriate key; F1 for 50:50, F2 for
Phone-A-Friend and F3 for Ask The Audience, or by clicking on the appropriate lifeline
symbol with the mouse.
Ok, here’s how it works. There are fifteen
questions that will take you, the contestant from
a virtual £100 to £1,000,000. Each question
comes with four possible answers to choose
from. Press the letter of your selection on the
keyboard to give your answer, or just click on the
answer on-screen. If you’re correct you’ll win the
£ value of that question and move on to the next
level. There are two milestone levels, at £1,000
and £32,000. Reach these and you’re
guaranteed to leave with that amount, even if
you give a wrong answer later on. But remember
that as you answer the fifteen questions to reach
a million pounds, the money goes up steeply but
so do the drops.
50:50 lifeline (F1)
If you choose the 50:50 lifeline, the computer will
take away two wrong answers leaving the correct
answer and one remaining wrong answer. To pick your
answer from those remaining, just hit the letter of
your selection on the keyboard or click on the answer
as normal.
Phone-A-Friend lifeline (F2)
If you choose the Phone-A-Friend lifeline, Chris will
call one of ten specially selected friends and ask
them for help. It’s your choice as to whether their
answer is used. It may be wrong!
You can choose to ‘Walk Away’ at any time and
keep the money you have accumulated.
MAIN MENU
When the game has loaded you will be given the options, Start
Game, Options or Quit. Make your choice by pressing the letter
on the keyboard corresponding to the orange letter in your
selected option, or by using the mouse pointer to click on the
option. Next you’ll be asked HOW MANY PLAYERS want to play?
If you select one player you go straight in. Only games with
more than one player offer different game types. These are
Fastest Finger, Team and Head to Head Games.
Options Screen
Contains - Continue, Restore, Main Menu and Volume Control
Pause Menu
(Accessed by pressing ESC key during hotseat section)
Contains - Continue, Restore, Main Menu and Volume Control
Ask The Audience lifeline (F3)
Finally you have The Ask The Audience lifeline. We
conducted a poll of 100 people selected at random.
We asked them what they thought the answer to
each question would be. If you choose to ask the
audience you’ll see the results of that poll. Again the
answer may be wrong!
Walk Away
At any time you can choose to stop and walk away and keep the money you’ve won up to
that point. To walk away, just press the W key on the keyboard or click on the Walk Away
symbol with the mouse.
TROUBLESHOOTING
UNINSTALLING
Please visit our website located at:
To uninstall Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? click on START on the taskbar then select the
Programs sub-menu. Once in the programs sub-menu select Eidos Interactive and move
through the Hothouse Creations menu. Then Select the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire folder
and choose UNINSTALL.
www.sold-out.co.uk
for the latest Troubleshooting information.
INSTALLING
Insert the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? CD into your CD-ROM drive. If autorun is enabled,
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? will automatically take you into the Autoplay screen. Click on
the install button, then follow the on-screen instructions. If the Autoplay feature has been
disabled, double click on the CD-ROM drive icon from My Computer and follow the on-screen
instructions.
Once installed, click on the Start Menu button, then select the Programs sub-menu. Once in
the programs sub-menu select Eidos Interactive and move through the Hothouse Creations
menu. Then select the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire folder and choose Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire.
STARTING THE PROGRAM
To play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, place this CD into its drive. Once the Autoplay screen
has loaded, click on the button. If Autoplay is disabled, or the computer was turned on with
the CD already in its drive, click on the Start Menu button, then select the Programs submenu. Once in the programs sub-menu select Eidos Interactive and move through the
Hothouse Creations menu. Then select the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire folder and choose
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Alternatively, open the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire folder, situated in
My Computer C:\Program Files\Eidos Interactive\Hothouse Creations\Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire
CREDITS
Hothouse
Producer - Steve Goss
Assistant Producer - Rob Davies
Programming - Adrian Brown, Adam Dobson, Bill Barna
Artwork - Phil Waymouth
Additional Artwork - Stuart Griffin, Matt Sandford
Script - Rob Davies, Andrew Rilstone, Tomas Rawlings
Voice Casting and Production - Philip Morris at AllintheGame
Voice Artists - David Coker, Simon Greenall, Rachel Preece, Liz Uter
Special thanks to - Gina Schofield, Sarah McKenna, Pete Moreland, Martin Carr,
Jason Stapleton, Stuart Poole, Stuart Collier, 4:2:2 Bristol.
Uses Bink Video. Copyright © 1997-2000 by RAD Game Tools Inc.
Uses Smacker Video Technology. Copyright © 1997-2000 by RAD Game Tools Inc.
Celador International
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? format created by David Briggs, Steve Knight,
Mike Whitehill and Paul Smith.
Special thanks to Chris Tarrant.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? licensed by Celador International Limited.
Executive Producer for Celador International, Adrian Woolfe.
Additional thanks to Katherine Arbuthnott, Don Christopher, Kathryn Ferguson,
the Question Team, Jayne Williams and Jen Wynne.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Minimum
• Windows 95/98
• Pentium 266
• 16MB RAM
• 2MB video card (DX7 compliant)
• 70MB HD space
• DX7 compliant Sound Card
Recommended
• Windows 95/98/2000
• DX7 and DXMEDIA installed
• PII 266
• 32MB RAM
• 4MB video card (DX7 compliant)
• 400MB HD space
• DX7 compliant Sound Card
INTRODUCTION
Hello and welcome to the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? quiz
game. If you’ve seen the show then you can stop reading this
manual. If not, you can probably guess that the main aim is to
win a million pounds. But it’ll take brains and a slice of good
fortune to get you all the way there. Unfortunately the box this
CD came in won’t hold one million pounds, so we’ve given you
the next best thing, a virtual million and a game that will have
you, your friends and your family shouting at your computer
screen. If you’ve ever wanted to be on the show and thought you
could go all the way, now’s your chance to prove it. Do you have
what it takes? We’ll keep our fingers crossed.
Let’s Install... Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Eidos Interactive
Producer
Associate Producer
Executive Producer
Head of Product
Marketing
PR Manager
Assistant PR Manager
Assistant PR Manager
Creative Services
Mike Souto
Mark Christy
Grant Dean
QA Manager
Assistant QA Manager
Senior Lead Tester
Chris Rowley
Neall Jones
Ron Jackson
Karen Ridley
Steve Starvis
Eva Whitlow
Ane Olesen
Matthew CarterJohnson
Caroline Simon
Rob Eyers
Test Engineers
David Pettit
James Thompson
David Babajee
Phil Maskell
Joe Neate
John Wagland
Alex Hood
Andy Secchi
Derren Toussaint
Michael Owusu
Matt Holmes
Lawrence Mastin
Anthony Wicker
Ross Skinner
Abrus Ai
Bachitter Singh
Jassar
Gary Jones
Jaspreet Shaheed
Kashpal Bhogal
Kenny Tang
Assistant QA Manager
Assistant QA Manager
QA Co-ordinator
Senior Compatibility
Co-ordinator
Compatibility Engineer
James Featherstone
Jean Yves Duret
Julie Payne
CONTENTS
Introduction................................................................................4
Jason Walker
Phil Spencer
Special Thanks
Jonathan Kemp, Janet Swallow, Dave Rose, Paul Sheppard, Ian Livingstone, Jane Luckcraft,
Jacqui Ralston, Pat Cowan, Louise Fisher, Tim Wapshott, Greg Howson, David Bradley,
Matthew Pierce, Dave Woods.
System Requirements ...............................................................5
Installation .................................................................................6
Starting the Program .................................................................6
Uninstalling ................................................................................7
Main Menu ..................................................................................8
Answering the Questions...........................................................9
Multiplayer Game Types ..........................................................10
Lifelines....................................................................................12
Troubleshooting........................................................................14
Credits ......................................................................................15
Customer Support ....................................................................18
EPILEPSY WARNING
Please read before using this video game or allowing your children to use it. Some people are susceptible to epileptic
seizures or loss of consciousness when exposed to certain flashing lights or light patterns in everyday life. Such people
may have a seizure while watching certain monitor images or playing certain video games. This may happen even if the
person has no medical history of epilepsy or has never had any epileptic seizures. If you or anyone in your family has ever
had symptoms related to epilepsy (seizures or loss of consciousness) when exposed to flashing lights, consult your doctor
prior to playing. We advise that parents should monitor the use of video games by their children. If you or your child
experience any of the following symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, eye or muscle twitches, loss of consciousness,
disorientation, any involuntary movement or convulsion, while playing a video game, IMMEDIATELY discontinue use and
consult your doctor.
PRECAUTIONS TO TAKE DURING USE
• Do not stand too close to the screen. Sit a good distance away from the monitor, as far away as the length of the cable
allows.
• Avoid playing if you are tired or have not had much sleep.
• Make sure that the room in which you are playing is well lit.
• Rest for at least 10 to 15 minutes per hour while playing a video game.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
If you require technical assistance, call the Technical Support
helpline on:
+44 (0) 20 7928 9655
Or e-mail us on
[email protected]