Scrabble (video game)

Scrabble
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[edit]

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 Sinclair 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[edit]

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[edit]

^ "Psion Scrabble beats writers with 11,000 word memory". Your Computer. No. 8. IPC. June 1983. p. 49. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ "Misquoted!". Popular Computing Weekly. No. 19. Sunshine Publications. 12 May 1983. p. 66. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ "Off the board for Scrabble". Popular Computing Weekly. No. 5. Sunshine Publications. 2 February 1984. p. 5. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ "Scrabble". ACE. No. 6. Future Publishing. March 1988. p. 68. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
^ 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[edit]

Scrabble at MobyGames

[ycjune83-1] "Psion Scrabble beats writers with 11,000 word memory". Your Computer. No. 8. IPC. June 1983. p. 49. Retrieved 31 May 2024.

[pcw12may83-2] "Misquoted!". Popular Computing Weekly. No. 19. Sunshine Publications. 12 May 1983. p. 66. Retrieved 31 May 2024.

[pcw02feb84-3] "Off the board for Scrabble". Popular Computing Weekly. No. 5. Sunshine Publications. 2 February 1984. p. 5. Retrieved 31 May 2024.

[acemarch88-4] "Scrabble". ACE. No. 6. Future Publishing. March 1988. p. 68. Retrieved 31 May 2024.

[edgesales-5] 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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