Othello
Othello board game for BBC Micro. At the start of each game the players place four counters at the center of the board. Thereafter the players take it in turns to place a counter with their own colour face up…
Othello is a card & board game developed by Robin Nixon, released 31 December 1985 on BBC Microcomputer System.
What Othello is
Othello is a card & board game game developed by Robin Nixon and released in 1985. It was published by The Micro User. It is available on BBC Microcomputer System only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Othello board game for BBC Micro. At the start of each game the players place four counters at the center of the board. Thereafter the players take it in turns to place a counter with their own colour face up on an empty square in such a way there are at least one counter of the opposite colour sandwiched between it and another of the player's colour in either a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective.
What it launched against
Othello launched on 31 December 1985, within three weeks of Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter and Mercenary.
Released around the same time: Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter, Mercenary.
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