007 Racing Game Review
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Not a Bond game fondly remembered by the masses but should it be given a second chance?
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Calvin I think she's saying 'mortars' at 19:22 xD
Halo Evolved oh god... this is gonna be like in Nightfire when I thought the guards were saying “stop it” and now I’ll have people correcting me until the day I die 😂😂
@@calvindyson HAHAHAHA yep XD
STOPPPPP ITTTT!
Yes that’s fairly obvious
@@calvindyson They'll only correct you if you forget to Launch the Mortars... Unlike Jaws.. =P
Sorry.. dad joke.. I feel like it had to be done!!
Great review by the way.. took me back!!
I would either play this game or yell at my tv because the World Is Not Enough was somehow always cheating.. it was never that I sucked at the game!!
Nice review but you failed to meet the target of 70%. Do it again.
another great review!
minimme thanks 😁 much appreciated!
So you're a bond fan too? Really enjoy all those random game reviews!
@@WH250398 big bond fan ya! Big calvin fan too! and thanks :)
@@minimme why do I keep bumping into you on comment sections? Hahaha
Anyway, much love from Brazil! Hahahaha
Fun fact:
The developers of this game are the exact same team that later made Ride To Hell Retribution, one of the worst games ever made.
(In Luke Skywalker voice)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!
What? You mean they were greenlit more than once? That explains why both games are centered around vehicles and both suck so badly.
@@spartanq7781 Ride To Hell was at first going to be an open world, but the entire thing was scrapped. Some of the unfinished assets where used to slap together the final game. The """npc's""" for example have some rough talking animations, but don't utter a word.
Is that the game with a bunch of fully clothed sex scenes?
@@WH250398 That explains why it was such a mess. If that's the case they should have delayed the game or cancel it.
19:40 she's saying Launch the Mortors. Which is a form of cannon which fires shells into the air to land on enemies. 👍
this.
i was going to say that. its clearly 'Mortars'
You took the words right out of my mouth! :)
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Sheriff J.W Pepper is back! I'm more happy about that than I am about everything else in the entire video game series. This game really knew how to treat the fanbase.
I recognize the music during 11:15 ! It was made by Rom Di Prisco, who composed some songs for the early Need for Speed games made by EA. That song was cut from the PC version of Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (or Need for Speed Porsche 2000). Nice to see it be reused in something else at least, but why of all things a Bond game? It doesn't really fit well, at all.
I'm surprised they have never tried to make a 007 fighting game since the movies are also famous for the fight scenes. I could see it something like a combo based fighting game like Killer Instinct.
It’s always a good day when Calvin uploads.
But then 20:57 happened.
Oh my.
Now it‘s a great day.
BenCol I didn’t sleep well last night after making this...
Calvin Dyson Reviews Bond .....I can see why......
*Sees the moment*
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*Eyes pop*
I have literal tears at the Sheriff Pepper bits! Pure genius Calvin!
What year did this game come out? A lot of the levels and icons seem to be "inspired" by the driving sections in Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1.
But, I rented this game from Blockbuster as a kid, burned it to a CD-R on my PC, then played it on the PS1 using the swap disc trick with a lump of blu-tak. :D
Will you be looking into the Domark era of Bond games ever? Also the arcade game Sly Spy, which was supposed to be a 007 game, but the deal fell through at the last moment, so you have a James Bond game with James Bond villains without the James Bond license!
This game came out in 2000, around the same time as The World Is Not Enough, also both games advertise each other in their respective packaging.
I didn’t know that about Sly Spy! That’s very interesting, may well have to scope it out! Not sure about looking at game pre-The Duel but who knows, if this Bond game drought continues maybe I will have to plunder the 80’s for Bond game entertainment too!
@@calvindyson I have James Bond The Duel on Mega Drive and James Bond Jr on SNES. Most earlier Bond games that I'm aware of are mostly ancient computer games. A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill were all released on Commodore 64.
@@WhiteJarrah the world of Bond... Is not enough!
@@calvindyson Would you want to find out about a Die Another Day video game?
JW Pepper and Jack Wade in one game! That’s a lot of bumbling sidekick.
Also if Jack Wade is here at the same time as Koskov I wonder what Koskov’s former coworker looks like...
5:16: Wade looks like Charles Gray, doesn't he ?
It demands THE scene of Rocky Horror Picture Show. ! :D
5:21 Looks like Charles grey, who played Blofeld in diamonds are forever...
It’s just a jump to the left!
Put your hands on your hip!
So.. Koskov and Jack Wade in a same game, does it mean that Jack Wade and Whitaker are twins? Or is one of the two a clone of the other one?? :D What if Koskov would run into Wade in this, would he falsely identify that man as Whitaker? :D Also, I'm loving the fact that they brought back some not so well known Bond characters like Whisper, and gave them a moment to shine! But in the end, imagine the situation where the blabbermouths Wade and Pepper would meet each other, the amount of sass in that scene would be astronomical! :P
I'm pretty sure we can all be thankful EA no longer has their hands on the Bond license, given their practices in recent years. I can only imagine the microtransactions and loot boxes that would plague Bond games today. Yes, Activision these days isn't much better, but at least their CEO isn't an actual Bond villain.
EA did do a vastly better job than Activision, but yeah they're both far from their glory days. They have both become scumbags.
Yeah, but I would rather have a game riddled with micro-transactions than not have one at all...
I just wish they ended on Goldeneye Wii instead of 007 Legends. It would have been waaaay more satisfying to end on a bang.
This comment aged poorly.
@@Cybermat47 Yes. Yes it did.
HE TRIED TO KILL ME WITH A FORKLIFT!
Don't know if you'll get that reference, but it seems like a very appropriate reference here.
Oh my god okay so first of all your Sheriff Pepper edits absolutely killed me. Secondly, I'm absolutely obsessed with that Brosnan soundalike - favourite bit is that entire MI6 cut scene where it really gives his vocal cords a time to shine. "Why take the carrrrrrrrr? Iiiiiiiit's just a hunch!". This entire video has reminded me of stuff I thought I wiped from my memory. I remember not being able to get past the third level at all. Had to get the cheats so I could skip it. I don't even think I've completed the game properly come to think of it, there's a lot of levels here I have absolutely no recollection of! Awesome video man. :)
For a game called 007 Racing, there's very little ACTUAL racing in it. Never was a PS1 guy. Even by early-2000s standards, the graphics are rather balls.
Also, really did not need to see that Clifton James/Denise Richards hybrid...You'll be getting a bill from my therapist for that one. XD
Nice review Calvin! Really looking forward to when you get around to Goldeneye N64!
EntropicDecay Gaming thanks, mate! I can’t wait to get to GE N64 either. And TWINE on the N64 too, I never played that one when I was a kid
@@calvindyson
I think you'll really enjoy TWINE. It's a lot like Nightfire. It was made by the same team as well.
Calvin Dyson Reviews Bond I did but I never played the PS1 version.
I also have the GameBoy game, GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.
@@calvindyson Just a quick heads up, The World is Not Enough also got a version produced for the Gameboy Color which came out in the fall of 2001. It was a really poor game when compared to the Nintendo 64 version. Without using the included cheat passwords, it was hard game to play, especially the level set at Electra King's villa where stealth is needed. Plus it only had about eight levels or levels so it really lacked the replay value of the console versions. I honestly enjoyed the James Bond 007 game for the Gameboy and Nightfire for Gameboy Advance more than this one.
As for the Nintendo 64 version of The World Is Not Enough, despite it being made by EA, it did feel like a proper Goldeneye squeal, since it was a FPS game, you had a great variety of weapons and gadgets to use and it did stick pretty close2df Plus the multiplayer was alot of fun, since their was different characters to unlock and play as along with customization options to make things different for each match up. I still fondly remember as one of the last Nintendo 64 games that I purchased before getting a Gamecube.
19:26 She said "Launch the mortars".
Question...when you looked up that walkthrough for level 3, was it the one on GameFAQs by Minesweeper? Because if so, I'm the one who wrote it. It's just that I'm the only person I know of who's actually *made* a walkthrough for this game so it's a pretty good chance you could have seen mine XD
Also did a little video walkthrough on this site as well for 007 Racing even :)
OMG IT WAS YOU!! Thanks so much for that!!! It was insanely helpful. I can’t thank you enough for that!!
@@calvindyson Haha, you're welcome, glad to hear it helped someone. Driving games are my favorite genre, so that's probably why I liked the game enough to not only finish it but type up a guide :)
Be glad you didn't touch the 00 Agent difficulty. It makes a lot of the missions even more difficult than before, and you have to get a 70% score instead of just 50%. I still beat it though and covered it in my walkthrough on GameFAQs.
Also nice channel you have here! This is the first time I've really looked at a Bond-centric channel so this is a new experience for me. I don't really talk to other 007 fans all that much.
@@NailStrafer I was masochist enough to complete vanilla difficulty with top scores. I was so hyped about this game when I bought it... It isn't worst game I have played, but it's way too short and difficult for what it is.
"Brosnan" sounds like Peter Serafinowicz' James Bond from his sketch show.
**Brushes off Flamingo feathers**
@@charliedawson4877 *cough*
KITCHEN GUN
So, a fun game that's rough around the edges in places, it would be a good game to remake in this modern era in my opinion for that reason.
If you ever do merch, a Launch The Massless t shirt would do the trick
My nightmares are still haunted by John Cleese telling me about hard to find paint . Also as far as I can hear she's saying "launch the mortars" as in what the missiles would be fired out of . I could be wrong. I'm not a weapons expert by any means .
Great review. Never played this, and honestly, probably never will. Really, the game 007 Racing really reminds me of would be Spy Hunter for the PS2. Similar concepts really, you drive a gadget laiden car and have to complete objectives by driving through levels set all over the world. However, Spy Hunter is really great, it's well designed, its objectives are designed so that you rarely have to stop, and unlike in this game, the car can also be driven on water too. I really recommend it, it basically is the great version of what 007 Racing seemed to be trying to accomplish.
Also got to say, I was laughing very hard at the Sheriff JW Pepper gags in this, love your editing of him into Brosnan era scenes.
I really look forward to your other PS1 reviews, as someone who has played all the PS2 and PS3 era games I am curious to see how they hold up, and also to see Eurocom's first go at Bond as well. I am curious, since you will be looking at both versions of The World Is Not Enough, have you ever considered looking at the PC version of Nightfire? Like TWINE, it was made by another developer, Gearbox, I believe on a different game engine too, and has many departures from the console version, like no vehicle or turret sections. It was made by Gearbox, who are in fact still going, currently working on Borderlands 3 which will be out next month.
Daniel Holmes Thanks for the tip about Spy Hunter! May well have to check it out. A game revolving around Bond cars is such a good idea and yet they completely dropped the ball on this one. You definitely don’t need to play this one, you’re missing out on nothing. And yes I think I’ll have to try to find a way to play the PC Nightfire. I own a Mac rather than a PC though so I’m guessing that makes things more difficult?
@@calvindyson Spy Hunter is something I do recommend, although sadly the 2 sequels they made for it also on the PS2 did sadly drop the ball. In fact, I remember Spy Hunter 2 having an infuriating boss fight against a massive jumbo jet plane as it tries to take off just like in 007 Racing actually. Still, first one is great, and looking at eBay, should cost less than £5.
Sadly, I'm not very tech literate. According to Wikipedia, Nightfire's PC version actually did get a Mac release 1 and a half years after the PC version, apparently ported by yet another company called Aspyr. Nightfire for all intents and purposes is basically a dead game, due to the fact that it and alot of Bond games have never been rereleased, due to the licencing issues. A couple of options you have really, either buy a mac version of eBay or some other site. (Currently, Ebay has one listing for a Mac version, at £3.49 including P&P.) Buy it and see if your Mac will run it, although I imagine the newer your Mac is, the less likely it will.
The other option is to try a fan download. Again, it's not like you can buy Nightfire "legitimately" from an actual game site like Steam, so while it technically is piracy, I don't think there is anything wrong with it in this situation. However, I'm struggling to find a site that provides a Mac version to download. So it might be best just to buy the Mac version, see if you can run it or not, and if you can't, maybe try to find some advice from Google or perhaps a site for Mac users about where to go from there.
Wait, R says there are only seven 00 agents? That's not right. TWINE (the most recent movie released at the time) makes reference to a 009. So unless they stopped recruiting new agents after the whole Alec thing, I think that's a huge oversight. Then again, I'm nitpicking the lore in 007 Racing...
Maybe he meant 7 currently living 00 agents
Can't wait for your TND review - love the film and love the game. It almost plays like an extended cut with lots of little deleted scenes like how Bond got to the arms bazaar and Wai Lin vs Chang's army.
EA hired Eutechnyx to make this game, which is odd considering they already had the Need for Speed game engine available.
Great review Calvin! Laughed hard at the Sheriff Pepper inclusions, although he really would not seem out out place in TWINE or DAD... Interesting game, 007 Racing, I totally did not expect a story, I thought it was more akin to the Bond vehicles in the new Forza Horizon 4! And so many Bond characters make a return, so I have to applaud the game makers for trying this hard!
In this game, rubbery 007 is played by the 12th Earl of Portland--that's my only fact about this game and I love it. Poshest Bond since David Niven!
When will we get a CSI - J.W. Pepper game?
These bits with J W Pepper got me rolling on the floor 🤣
The ps1 debuted when I was in high school so I have a soft spot for the old blocky polygons
I owned this when i was young and still have my copy, although i only made it to about the third mission before becoming disinterested
I remember when i saw it in the shop i thought oh cool a racing game with bond cars. But yeah i was pretty disappointed.
This game needs a remake. It’s crammed with iconic characters (including the almighty Sheriff JW Pepper) and would be a hell of a lot of fun if it had a Mario kart style multiplayer mode with 007 themed maps and classic Bond cars and characters duking it out.
I've been looking forward to this, and it did not disappoint! I've never played 007 Racing and only heard bad things about it online and I can see why lol, but I enjoyed the video and loved learning about all the classic characters that were featured in it. Also your edits of the Brosnan films with Sheriff Pepper are absolutely hilarious and now I'm sad they aren't actually real. Looking forward to TWINE :)
I'm so glad you enjoyed it :D Thanks for the comment! Yeah, it's a shame this story was represented by better gameplay. Could have been something quite exciting!
That jw pepper montage was too funny 😂
The game should have been just straightforward car chases and fun missions. How hard would it have been to just do “Driver, but it’s James Bond.” Seriously
Hey Calvin. Great review, and I did actually enjoy playing a few of these levels when I was a much younger kid (round 9/10 I think).
Anyway, on that River Chase level, I believe she's actually saying "launch the mortars", which is what the Moonraker guards were launching at Bond during that particular boat chase.
Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to your World is Not Enough review. And if you didn't know, that's a cheat code on Bond's license plate in the front cover. I think it gives you Dalton's Aston for multiplayer.
Dodging forklifts? Apparently the makers of this game had Colonel Heller's (Don Stroud) impalement by forklift in License to Kill on their minds.
Cherise says "Launch the mortars!"
Fun Fact:
At the 2004 British Grand Prix along with a few other select dates during the "summer tour" of european races the Red Bull F1 team repainted their cars in a special james bond themed livery too help co-promote the release of Die Another Day.
9:11 "HE TRIED TO KILL ME WITH A FORKLIFT!"
Fun fact to begin with: you can shoot two missiles at the same time by holding R2. Also by holding R2, the gadgets can actually be scrolled backwards, many think it can't be done.
3:03 - You can complete it in under 2 minutes? I've done it in under a minute achieving Perfect score in the process.
9:48 - You either Machine Gun them on the back or as said, get them to hit them boxes.
11:44 - This pass percentage is 80% at 00 Agent difficulty.
13:49 - Those bulldozers can be destroyed with shooting missiles on their backs.
I had a lot of great nostalgic memories of playing this game when I was a kid. Great times!!!!!
Great review Calvin! Much respect to you for being able to get through the whole game; I recently tried it out for the first time and had to tap out on the first level.
18:51 I really appreciate seeing a 1st gen Ford Lightning in a 007 video game, or at least the front end looks like one
9:10 forklifts! haha you lost me there. You earned a like. 😁😁
Great review! Happy to subscribe! I played this game quite a bit but never got passed the third mission. I enjoyed the split screen mode more than anything else.
Thanks, Jeff! It does seem to be a common thing amongst players (myself included!) that back in the day the third mission was the deal breaker... Those damn forklifts!
I like 007 rancing a bit i quite like the opening with the monchart and the start
I never even heard of this game. Anyway a new Calvin review made my day.
Awesome, Calvin, thank you. I've never played this one. Thanks for ensuring that I never will :-) Sherriff Pepper was hilarious but I especially loved "like a Ken doll's face pushed in by a thumb!"
I would think that it was rushed as Sony was at this point focusing on the PS2
20:46 - 20:55 Had me on the floor laughing my a** off! X'D
... I'm a simple man.
Me too. Hilarious.
I bought this recently and am not sure whether to be excited or regretful
hey Calvin, i can recommend a game called No One Lives Forever, it has a 1960's version of James Bond. i highly Recommend. :) take care
I remember renting this once and I'm pretty sure I only ever gave it one sitting and never got past that 3rd level. I think I had already played Spy Hunter (2001) at the time and thought that an older but similar game could still be fun. I really just want to echo the couple comments I saw saying that Spy Hunter is an actually good execution of the "do missions in a spy car with weapons and gadgets" concept.
It’s kinda funny how fun the car sections were in Agent Under Fire, Nightfire, Everything or Nothing, and even Blood Stone despite none of them centering on car combat like this one.
Granted, they probably saw what worked and didn’t work here and incorporated that in later games.
She says “launch the mortars” 😂
Are you going to review Tomorrow Never Dies PS1 at any point Calvin? Loved that game! Looking forward to TWINE !
I actually think this Game Had Potential not a Bad idea focusing on the cars which offer a lot of playroom for Creative leveldesign. The first two Levels really Show that. Its also the first James Bondthing I Ever experienced, so it has a Special Place in my Heart lol
20:58 "What the HEYELL is going on???" I hit the floor from laughter
I never got past the third level in this game as a kid, but my little brother and i where playing the combat arena mode very often and had much fun as kids doing so.
Suprisingly enough this was a multiplayer stable for my brother and I. Our choices were limited to be fair, but I remember quite enjoying it
Between this & Superman 64 it seems like there’s a correlation between early 2000s games with terrible controls and forklifts.
They tried to kill me with a forklift!
Gotta love the box art, where the DB5’s number plate has been changed from BMT 216A (or 214A for the Brosnan Era) to L1R1ΔOX. Because PlayStation I guess, either that or Greece.
Now I thought from the title this game would be the obligatory Mario Kart knockoff that it seems every film/TV IP is required to have. Which could be fun if done right. Get all the old cars and create tracks based on all the Ken Adams sets, all you have to do is replace the turtle shells with missiles, the banana peels with oil slicks and Toad with Carter from ‘Casino Royale’ - it could work, just as long as you had a competent developer.
BenCol I would have LOVED it if it was more Mario Kart and less mission objectives and the like. Also they only include like, 5 cars here which is a bit pitiful. No love for TLD Aston!
Calvin Dyson Reviews Bond Tsk tsk, the V8’s one of the best. Though, if it didn’t come with funky jazz on the radio and the ability to turn into a shed, then what would’ve been the point?
That Pepper sketch was PERFECT! Hilarious!!!
8:00 If you hold R2 it fires the rockets from both sides which can minigate the issue but doing this uses 2 rockets so don't spam it or you will run out of rockets quickly.
24:12 True Crime Streets of LA has a better version of this mission near the end of the good story path where you stop Rocky's jet by shooting its engines. Why couldn't this game have something like that?
That still trips me out seeing Nova Scotia on the map
The plot of this game is better than the plot of Spectre... how sad is that.
19:16 Launch the muscles? Lunch the morsels?
Mortars, a type of bomb
I remember getting this on for Christmas one year along with the playstation. Played it the whole day long, only taking a break for dinner. So many memories but good god did it have some issues. That said, driving around in a DB5 as 10 or so year old me was the best feeling.
This was my gateway to the 007 universe. My cousin gave me a pirated copy of this game and my brother and I spent many hours playing it 20 years ago. About 5 years later, I procured a legitimate copy for my PS2 and spent time beating the game on 00 Agent, as well as unlocking all the cheats and other unlockables. As bad as this game is, I cut it a lot of slack, as without it, I wouldn't have watched all the films, read some of the Fleming novels, or picked up the better games that were made.
25:20 - Hold up, is Melody a Mark 1 model of Zoe Nightshade?! Purple skirt, white top, ponytail hairstyle.... Helluva coincidence but I've never noticed mainly because I never reached the end.
I love your reviews, dude. They give me such a nostalgia trip. 😊
This is the song about 007
Saving the world inside his car
THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM WITH A FORKLIFT!
Good review and I completely agree with the story mode, BUT I do have some amazing memories with the multiplayer with this game. Me and my mate used to play it flat out and we had so much fun. Was always a mad race to get the stingers lol.
I Enjoy Watching Your Video I’m A Huge Fan Of The James Bond Franchise For A Long Time When I Was A Little Girl My First Action Movie I Saw In 1997 Was Tomorrow Never Dies My First Favorite Bond Actor Is Pierce Brosnan Because I Started With Him First
I think you will find the river chase starts with our bad girl saying "Launch the Mortars"
Brilliant review as always Calvin 🙂 Did you use the cheat on the DB5 number plate from the game front cover to unlock the V8 from The Living Daylights as a extra car to play as in the multiplayer?
Thanks! I didn't even know the cheat was a thing! I complained somewhere else in these comments about the lack of love for the V8
This game is PS2 Spy Hunter...but shitty. Honestly, it feels like EA was prototyping car levels for a future Bond game and decided to tape them together. For what it's worth, if it was an experiment it payed off. The later EA games have really fun car levels.
I had forgotten about this game until you showed that gameplay. I remember playing this. I could never beat that first level!
WOW, this brings me back...I remember getting to level three and never returning to the game.....FORKLIFTS! :)
“Launch the morsels!”
great stuff man. i had to pause the video to stop laughing when you imitated that man's accent haha.
Great review. I never played this one when i was a kid. Now i see i didn't miss anything. What do you think about the footage of the Matera car chase. I'm tired of the overused DB5 but getting to finally see it in a modern action car chase i think will be entertaining. As much as a like Goldfinger it's dated speed up the film car chase was never my favorite scene. This will be a proper sequence if it's not cut like Quantum's frenetic editing or the James and Moneypenny conversation is more exciting then the chase through Rome of Spectre.
Yeah I was thinking that I'm kinda over the DB5 but then having it in a proper action packed car chase for the first time in over 50 years would be quite exciting! Gadgets and all I'm hoping for!!
The J.W Pepper part made me laugh so much!! 😂😂😅🤣🤣
007 Racing was a good games in concept, but its handling take some getting used to. It really makes me wish Reflections (makers of the Driver games) had made it.
You know Calvin, imagen if this game had a remake.
The idea is sound (Though limited in some aspects) and it gave the fans the chance to play with their favorite bond cars (Up to 2000).
If a remake is possible, it could include more levels with the other 12, an option to toggle between weapons (Without the annoyance of being forced to use the newly collected item), the cars from the late Brosnan to the Craig era being added as unlockables, Actual racing events for namesake (With some tracks from a few bond films) and possibly online multiplayer with other players.
Me liking terrible things is kinda a meme at this point but I unironically loved this game growing up. I remember struggling a lot in some single player missions (Yep, Ambush can gtfo) but me and my dad would play the multi-player CONSTANTLY.
Also fun fact there's a cheat code you can input on the 'press start' screen where you can unlock the V8 from 'The Living Daylights'.
NO WAY WHAT?! I should have totally checked that out!!
The 2nd level looks suspiciously like the level from die hard trilogy and that also involves new york and bombs and driving around.
He tried to kill me with a Forklift!
love this game...! Cavin, great you got to m.. see Mr. Pierce Bondnan
What did you use to record this with? Composite video, S-video or RGB SCART?
Love the video Calvin finally been waiting for this one!
Does anyone know the price of this game when it was brand new
I actually remember quitting this game because I couldn't complete the fork lift mission! Look forward to your The World is Not Enough psOne review, I loved that game!
ea before: lets just give them a game with james bond
ea in a different universe if they still made the games:would you like to purchase the item "gun" for 1000000 pounds
Your humor kills me 😂 keep it up!