Computer Othello (1978 arcade game)

Computer Othello
Arcade flyers of Computer Othello.
Developer(s)	Nintendo R&D1 but see main article
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Arcade, Computer TV Game
Release date(s)	1978
Genre(s)	Reversi
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer

Computer Othello (コンピューターオセロ, Konpyūtā Osero^?) is a 1978 reversi-based video arcade game developed and published by Nintendo. It is one of their earliest video arcade games along with Block Fever and after they did release a dedicated console called Color TV Game 6 and a variety of electromechanical arcade games earlier in the 1970s. It was released exclusively in Japan in 1978. Some sources^[1][2][3] claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did development work on Computer Othello. It is not known to have ever been released outside Japan. A home version of the game was released in 1980 for the Computer TV Game (コンピューターTVゲーム, Konpyūtā Terebi Gēmu^?), the last of Nintendo's home consoles that don't require ROM cartridges, discs or any other removable media.

Gameplay

Photograph of Computer Othello's screen.

Computer Othello is a simplistic video adaptation of the classic board game alternately known as Othello (or Reversi). The screen is fully black with a green board that has a grid for placing square and cross Othello pieces. Computer Othello had only ten colored buttons per player, and no joystick.

References

1. ^ Company:Ikegami Tsushinki - GDRI :: Games You Know. Developers You Don't.
2. ^ ドンキーコング裁判についてちょこっと考えてみる Thinking a bit about Donkey Kong. Retrieved 2009-02-01.
3. ^ It started from Pong (それは『ポン』から始まった:アーケードTVゲームの成り立ち, Sore wa pon kara hajimatta: ākēdo terebi gēmu no naritachi^?), Masumi Akagi (赤木真澄, Akagi Masumi^?), Amusement Tsūshinsha (アミューズメント通信社, Amyūzumento Tsūshinsha^?), 2005, ISBN 978-4-9902512-0-8.