Scrabble | |
Developer: | Little Genius Psion Leisure Genius Arc Developments Runecraft Stainless Games Ubisoft Chengdu |
Publisher: | Little Genius Sinclair Research Leisure Genius Virgin Games U.S. Gold Hasbro Interactive Ubisoft Electronic Arts |
Platforms: | 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 |
Released: | Apple II ZX Spectrum BBC Micro Commodore 64 MS-DOS Amiga & Atari ST Acorn Archimedes Game.com PlayStation Mac OS Game Boy Color Game Boy Advance iOS Nintendo DS & PlayStation Portable Windows Mobile BlackBerry PlayStation 4 & Xbox One |
Genre: | Strategy |
Modes: | Single-player, multiplayer |
Since the early-1980s, there have been numerous officially-licensed video game adaptations of the board game Scrabble.
See main article: article and 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]
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]