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Scrabble: Crossword Game

Hasbro Interactive's best-selling computer title based on one of the world's most famous word games has made the translation to the PlayStation with real-time 3D graphics and support for up to four players. As…

31 December 1999

Scrabble: Crossword Game is a card & board game developed by Random Games, released 31 December 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Scrabble: Crossword Game is

Scrabble: Crossword Game is a card & board game game developed by Random Games and released in 1999. It was published by Hasbro Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hasbro Interactive's best-selling computer title based on one of the world's most famous word games has made the translation to the PlayStation with real-time 3D graphics and support for up to four players. As with the two previous CD-ROM games, Scrabble for the PlayStation even contains the Merriam Webster's Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary, 3rd Edition, so players can look up definitions to certain words (not all are available, however) and determine if a word actually exists. For those unfamiliar with the board game from which this title is based, Scrabble involves forming words using wooden tiles representing individual letters. These tiles are then placed into rows on a board made…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are non-fiction.

Where it sits in the Scrabble series

Scrabble: Crossword Game is the fourth of 15 entries we hold in the Scrabble series. The next entry was Scrabble in 1999.

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What it launched against

Scrabble: Crossword Game launched on 31 December 1999, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Little Fighter 2.

Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Little Fighter 2.

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When did Scrabble: Crossword Game come out?
Scrabble: Crossword Game was released on 31 December 1999 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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