Do you play with family or friends?

I remember I used to have the board game and I played it a couple of times. I probably don't anymore. Maybe I will get it again someday.

I know that I also used to play the game on my computer as well when the game came out for the PC and I remember a family member helping me out and we would play it together. I could always buy the games for the PlayStation, though. There are old game shops that I know of that I could go to.

Not to mention, I used to play along with my family on the TV when I was a kid.

In regards to making my own game, I have not yet done so, though I might be doing so with a friend of mine really soon. I actually have not thought about using a program with software, as I do not know how to do that, but I'm thinking of creating a game of 15 questions for $1,000,000 with the original money tree.

That book looks relatively cheap. As far as the two questions you asked, I know the answer to the first one, but not the second one.

So, right now, I don't play, but I certainly would be up to it. I'm always up for playing Millionaire in some capacity.

I honestly did not know there was a PS2 game with Chris Tarrant up until very recently. I really would like to own it, but do you think a game based in the U.K. could work on my PS2 out here in America? I certainly would love to play it.

Did you ever play the DVD home game with Chris? Apparently there was one that came out around 2003/2004. Australia also had a DVD game with Eddie McGuire.

Getting new questions and options isn't always easy. As somebody who has written questions for RPGs, Daily Millionaire, my own Mastermind RPG and for Millionaire games on Discord, I know it could take some brainstorming. So I can relate to you on that. I've been keeping a notebook of general knowledge where I write facts down as part of studying I'm doing in case one day I ever go on Millionaire for real, but the way I'd ever do that in the U.S. would be if they brought back the hot seat and everything else. I refuse to watch the game in its current format, much less apply to become a contestant. 

That's why I'm hoping we get another series in the U.K. with Jeremy Clarkson, since at least that game stays true to the original game, barring some tweaks here and there, but it's still Millionaire.

As to why I don't like or watch the current version, imagine if there is something that you absolutely love in this world, then it changes in a radically, fundamental way. The clock version still had much of the Millionaire aspects and I know that there are going to be tweaks over time, it happens. The thing about this version is that it pretty much got rid of everything that I love about Millionaire and everything that made it iconic. There's no hot seat. There's a completely different soundtrack and music bed. The cues are completely different and no more dimming of the lights. If you took away almost everything people love about something, would they still love it?

Put it this way. My favorite sport is baseball. As recently as 4-6 years ago, I was the biggest diehard of Major League Baseball that you could possibly find, following all 30 teams and being willing to watch any MLB game, even if it was between two last place teams in August. Sure, not everything was perfect. It wasn't until 2014 that baseball expanded instant replay, which I felt was long overdue, but the absence of replay did not negate my love of the game. 

Then Rob Manfred took over as commissioner and has changed so much. He got rid of the four pitch intentional walk. He has made mound visits timed. He has limited the number of mound visits in a game. He has talked about getting rid of the shift and adding a pitch clock. Not to mention he changed the format of the Home Run Derby and changed the All Star Game from changing between a National League city and an American League city hosting every other year to the All Star Game going to the highest bidder. 

Bud Selig made changes, but he made changes that made sense and added to the quality of the game. Rob Manfred has made all of these radical changes, and it is alienating me the same way Millionaire in the U.S. has. Baseball certainly does not have my interest the way that it used to, and I've said before I would be done if baseball added the pitch clock. 

In Millionaire speak, Bud Selig represents the tweaks Millionaire made here and there throughout the years in the U.K. and the U.S. while still maintaining the core elements. Rob Manfred represents the radical changes and turning off some people like myself, a diehard.

The clock in the U.S. wasn't my favorite, but I would be ecstatic if they brought back the clocked version of the game from 2008-2010 and went back to the old format as opposed to what we have now. 

We never had any discs, at least not that I recall. If we did, I stand corrected, but like you, my experience of international versions is through what I've watched online. 

The U.S. has a version to watch, but it's not a version I personally watch, and it's completely unrecognizable, if you ask me.

To answer the question, I now have played with a friend a couple of times. I wrote questions last Sunday and tonight and quizzed him on them. I still asked the questions even after he got something wrong. He won $125,000 and then missed on $250,000 Sunday and then he won $8,000 tonight only to miss on the $16,000 question.

What I do is write the 15 questions, using the original money tree, and then I go to YouTube and you might be familiar with MilliomaireSound. I play his videos and his sound effects on my phone with the music from the show while I'm asking the questions. For example, on the first five questions I asked him, I played the YouTube video on my phone of the $100-$1000 questions and when he got them right, I played the $1,000 win cue on my phone. I also played the corresponding final answer cues when necessary. $2,000, $4,000, etc. 

It was loads of fun, even if I'm not completely polished as a host yet.