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Scrabble (video game)

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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
ReleaseApple II
ZX Spectrum
BBC Micro
Commodore 64
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

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

1982 Little Genius version

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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

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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

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  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.
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