Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a 1999 quiz/party video game originally developed by Jellyvision and published by Disney Interactive, based on the television franchise of the same name.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was developed by Jellyvision, which had previously co-created the successful You Don't Know Jack trivia game series with Berkeley Systems.
[4][7] In the United States, it debuted at #2 on PC Data's list of the best-selling computer games for the week of November 21, at an average retail price of $20.
[16] A writer for PC Gamer US called the game's sales "scary" given its late-year launch, and predicted that its "full potential" was not yet realized.
[23] In the German market, Eidos Interactive released Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (known as Wer wird Millionär) during the middle of December 2000.
[24] While it dropped to second place on the monthly charts for February and March,[25] by October it had maintained a 10-month streak on Media Control's rankings.
[29] In March 2001 the VUD awarded the computer version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire its "Double-Platinum" prize,[30] for sales of 400,000 copies,[31] while its PlayStation release collected a "Gold" honor.