Scrabulous be damned - Scrabble gets funky
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Scrabble, PR, funny, Gaming on
Being a business IT journalist I don’t normally get tech games releases - it would be like throwing paper into a waste bin.
However I recently got a call from a PR who was trying to sell me an online version of Scrabble - I was a touch confused by this - surely she must have seen what IT PRO is - primarily focused on business IT right?
So I told her to look at the site again, but then she mentioned that I had written on Scrabble before. More confusion. Then suddenly a lightbulb switched on - I had written on Scrabble - basically a blog on a funny story where the Nintendo DS version of Scrabble managed to beat an eight year old with the word f***ers.
So now I’m writing on it. Yeah, the games cool enough and you can play it with one player, which is good if you’re in the office and you fancy a quick ten minutes of fun (see what I did there? managed to get the business angle in).
It also put me in mind to remember the whole Scrabulous saga, when Scrabble got into a battle with two Facebook app makers for ripping them off with a game which was basically Scrabble.
I remember being quite angry with Mattel and Hasbro, the owners of Scrabble, for their heavy-handed approach. But looking back I realise they had a point - they were getting ripped off and other people were making money out of their copyright.
However it seems to have worked out now. Scrabble has a working Facebook app of its very own and the game seems to be as popular as ever, with console, computer and online versions out for people to enjoy.
But in the end a board game like Scrabble is all about the interaction, the anger and the swearing - as Tim and Daisy from Spaced will tell you.
(I reckon Shazam is a word. Pantene ‘ProV’ definitely not).
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DS Scrabble beats eight-year-old with swear word
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Daily Mail, Scrabble, Nintendo DS, Nintendo on
The Daily Mail has come out with a cracker of a story when it revealed that the Nintendo DS version of Scrabble beat an eight-year-old with the word f*ckers - and if that wasn’t funny enough it was a triple word score!
Typical Mail story - playing to the scared middle class housewives of this world,
Rated: 73.33% (3 votes)
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