Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged

by Atari

Product Features

• All-new version of the popular trivia game
• Bet against others, steal wedges, and even crush rivals¿ game pieces
• 3 play modes: unhinged version, original classic, and fast new ¿mini¿ game
• Thousands of questions read by a team of celebrities
• Hundreds of multimedia clips and clues

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009EFYH
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 27, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,964 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #88 in Video Games > PC Games > Board Games
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Trivial Pursuit Unhinged is for the trivial Pursuit fan who craves more exciting action with their favorite board game. Try the all-new game questions and playing modes that bring Trivial Pursuit to a new level!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars One Giant Step Downward, July 28, 2004

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Valjean (Salem, Ma United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged (CD-ROM)

Okay, the best point of reference from which to view this game is from the perspective of someone who played Trivial Pursuit Millenium Edition (TPME) for the PC until it literally ran out of new questions. That someone, is me. I really loved TPME and was looking so forward to this Unhinged game blowing me away, but like most modern games fot the PC, this game is all show and no go. Let me explain.

First off, while the game advertises *thousands and thousands* of questions, I really find that at least 1/2 of these questions are the same questions from the Millenium Edition rehashed. Second, the interface is counterintuitive with the gameboard bobbing up and down like some cork in the water. The color scheme and the fonts make it hard to see exactly which direction you should be going in at any given time. The statistics keeping system (the one that tells you exactly how may questions you got right in each category in ME) has been replaced by stupid bar graphs that leave you guessing which categories you are doing well in.

However...the biggest slap in the face has got to be the lack of explanations after the questions. The original TPME produced by Hasbro Interactive was extrememly thoughful in this aspect. Almost everytime you got a question right, the narrator of the game would explain it to you. Somtimes, there would even be a very funny cartoon to illustrate the answer. VERY THOUGHTFUL and moreover, something that added to the educational value of TPME!!! Instead, in Unhinged, more often than not the only supplementary commentary you will get on a correct answer is playful banter (ie: Whoopi telling you things like *the wedgie is your's the wedgie is yours!).

However, I suppose that Atari thought they couldn't go wrong. Instead of having no-name narrators in this game, the questions are read by a team of celebrities including Terry Bradshaw, Brooke Burke, John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, John Ratzenberger, and Bill Nye (the Science Guy). Since I like all of these celebs, I was looking forward to the game being perfect. Instead, Atari just messed up a good thing and now I find myself wondering, what if...instead of paying these celebs to read the questions, they would have invested the discretionary funding into hiring a better software design team....hmm...

Anyway, I don;t think that the game is totally without merit. If you haven't played TPME, you might like it a lot. However, fans of the Millennium Edition will certainly be dissapointed on many levels.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots Of Fun!, October 4, 2004

By 

"skipzgal" (Natick,Ma. United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged (CD-ROM)

This is the first Trivial Pursuit P.C. game I've played, and I enjoy it very much. This game includes the classic trivial pursuit, as well as the unhinged version. The first version I tried in this game is the classic. I was immediately addicted! A few days later I tried the unhinged version, and found it even more fun and addictive. The reason I give this game 4 stars instead of 5 is that at times during the unhinged game, it can be difficult to hear and understand what the "host' is saying. Furthermore, in the unhinged game, it is not possible to play solo.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Trivial Pursuit, May 1, 2010

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B. Kruger (South Africa) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged (CD-ROM)

Very disappointing
Not NEARLY enough Q&A
Played twice and already the same questions come up.
SPORT section focusing on US sports
The original PC game was much, much better (it included video clips etc)
Could be far more international