Scrabble (video game)

Scrabble
PlayStation Portable cover art
Developer(s)	Little Genius Psion Leisure Genius Arc Developments Runecraft Stainless Games Ubisoft Chengdu
Publisher(s)	Little Genius Sinclair Research Leisure Genius Virgin Games U.S. Gold Hasbro Interactive Ubisoft Electronic Arts
Platform(s)	Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, BBC Micro, BlackBerry, Commodore 64, Game.com, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Mac OS, MS-DOS, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, Windows Mobile, Xbox One, ZX Spectrum
Release	Apple II EU: 1982 ZX Spectrum EU: 1983 BBC Micro EU: 1984 Commodore 64 EU: 1984 MS-DOS EU: 1992 Amiga & Atari ST EU: 1993 Acorn Archimedes EU: 1994 Game.com NA: 1999 PlayStation NA: October 31, 1999 EU: December 7, 2001 Mac OS NA: 2000 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

Since the early-1980s, there have been numerous officially-licensed video game adaptations of the board game Scrabble.

1982 Little Genius version

Main article: The Computer Edition of Scrabble

In 1982, Little Genius released an official version of Scrabble for the Apple II and licensed it to Psion[1][2] who developed a version for the ZX Spectrum. Little Genius formed an associate company, Leisure Genius, which went on to develop and publish versions for most popular computers of the time.[3][4]

2000 version

In the United States, the PC version of 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.[5]

References

1. "Psion Scrabble beats writers with 11,000 word memory". Your Computer. No. 8. IPC. June 1983. p. 49. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
2. "Misquoted!". Popular Computing Weekly. No. 19. Sunshine Publications. 12 May 1983. p. 66. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
3. "Off the board for Scrabble". Popular Computing Weekly. No. 5. Sunshine Publications. 2 February 1984. p. 5. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
4. "Scrabble". ACE. No. 6. Future Publishing. March 1988. p. 68. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
5. Edge Staff (August 25, 2006). "The Top 100 PC Games of the 21st Century". Edge. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012.

External links

• Scrabble at MobyGames