Scrabble (video game)

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

Scrabble
PlayStation Portable cover art
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

1988 Leisure Genius version
Main article: The Computer Edition of Scrabble

In 1988, Dragon gave Leisure Genius' Macintosh version (promoted as The Computer Edition of Scrabble).[1]

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.[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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