Scrabble (video game)

Scrabble is an official computerized version of the board game of the same name.

Scrabble
Developer(s)Leisure Games
Arc Developments
Runecraft
Stainless Games
Ubisoft Chengdu
Publisher(s)U.S. Gold
Hasbro Interactive
Ubisoft
Electronic Arts
Platform(s)Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, BBC Micro, BlackBerry, Game.com, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Mac OS, MS-DOS, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Windows Mobile, Xbox One
ReleaseBBC Micro
MS-DOS
Amiga & Atari ST
Acorn Archimedes
Game.com
PlayStation
  • NA: October 31, 1999
  • EU: December 7, 2001
Mac OS
Game Boy Color
  • EU: November 30, 2001
Game Boy Advance
  • EU: March 28, 2002
iOS
  • NA: July 9, 2008
Nintendo DS & PlayStation Portable
  • NA: March 17, 2009
Windows Mobile
  • NA: May 7, 2009
BlackBerry
  • NA: August 24, 2009
PlayStation 4 & Xbox One
  • NA: June 30, 2015
Genre(s)Strategy
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

Scrabble reproduces the game board, tiles, and game pieces onscreen. A clock is included to promote rapid thinking to spell and place words within a user-defined time limit. The game also has lightning- and tournament-timing alternatives. The player's letter rack is visible at the bottom of the screen. The player types a word composed of letters from the rack, and if the word is acceptable by the game, the player moves the cursor to the game board to position the word onscreen and score the move. The player may also pass a turn, request a hint of one playable word, and see the tile values at any time through the use of a pull-down menu.[1]

Reception

In 1988, Dragon gave the Macintosh version of the game 3 out of 5 stars.[1]

2000 version

In the United States, Scrabble sold 260,000 copies and earned $2.5 million by August 2006, after its release in July 2000. It was the country's 78th best-selling computer game between January 2000 and August 2006. Combined sales of all Scrabble computer games released between January 2000 and August 2006 had reached 910,000 in the United States by the latter date.[2]

References
  1. Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (March 1988). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (131): 78–86.
  2. Edge Staff (August 25, 2006). "The Top 100 PC Games of the 21st Century". Edge. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012.
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