Othello (1986 video game)

Othello
North American NES box art
Developer	HAL Laboratory
Publishers	Famicom Disk System Kawada NES JP: Kawada NA: Acclaim Entertainment Game Boy JP: Kawada EU: Nintendo
Producer	Satoru Iwata[5]
Programmer	T. Fuchi[6]
Artist	H. Naka[7]
Composer	Hideki Kanazashi[8]
Platforms	Famicom Disk System, NES, Game Boy
Release	Famicom Disk System JP: October 13, 1986[1] NES JP: November 13, 1986[3] NA: December 1988[2] Game Boy JP: February 9, 1990[4] EU: 1990[citation needed]
Mode	Single-player

Othello (オセロ, Osero) or Othello World for Game Boy, is a video game developed by HAL Laboratory, made for the Nintendo Entertainment System.^[9]

Versions of the game were first released on home consoles by Philips Magnavox on the Odyssey 2 as Dynasty in 1978, and later on the Atari 2600 in 1981. Othello is based on the board game Reversi, which was marketed as Othello.

Gameplay

It is played with two-sided (black and white) chips, also called discs, on a board. The player can choose between black or white chips. Games are either player versus computer or player versus player. The goal is to end the game with as many chips showing your color as possible. To do this, players must sandwich their opponents' chip(s) between a piece of their own color already on the board, and the piece being played. The game has four skill levels when playing the computer, as well as a hidden fifth level if you beat the computer on level four.

There is supposedly a slot machine game that is revealed when pressing Select + A at the main menu screen (the word slot will appear atop the screen and the game is said to start after you complete a two player game), but some users have reported that nothing happens after the word "slot" shows up.

See also

• Reversi

References

1. "FAMILY COMPUTER Software List 1986". GAME Data Room (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 27, 2018.
2. "NES Games" (PDF). Nintendo of America. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 11, 2014.
3. "All Famicom games sorted from the latest release to the earliest". Famitsu. Archived from the original on October 15, 2023.
4. "GAMEBOY Software List 1989-1990". GAME Data Room (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 27, 2018.
5. "File:Othello - FDS - Credits.PNG - Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki".
6. "File:Othello - FDS - Credits.PNG - Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki".
7. "File:Othello - FDS - Credits.PNG - Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki".
8. "File:Othello - FDS - Credits.PNG - Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki".
9. Moby Games