Othello
184K plays 1986 #Strategy
Othello (オセロ, Osero) is a 1986 strategy video game developed by HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy. It was published by the toy company Kawada in Japan and Acclaim Entertainment in North America. The Game Boy version was published by Nintendo in Europe. It is based on the board game Othello, a version of Reversi sold by Tsukuda Original. The video game is seen as a solid rendition of the board game with good controls but a lack of features.
From Wikipedia's article Othello (1986 video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
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Controls
This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.
Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.
3.0 Good job
Players 71 · 80 votes
No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.
Review scorecard
- Graphics 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Sound 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Control 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
- Fun Factor 3.0 out of 5 Overall fallback
Overall fallback: Players 71 · 80 votes. The same 71/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.
What the reviews talk about
Key wordssolideasyaddictive
What the critics said
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment called the controls "simple and easy to use", the ability to cancel moves "handy", and the game itself "deceptively simple".
— VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, 1989
Computer Entertainer called the NES version "addicting" and said it required "a good deal of thinking and strategy."
— Computer Entertainer, 1989· about another version
From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Othello (1986 video game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.
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