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Poor Implementation

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: August 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The actual game play is good, but the next version should be developed for Windows using modern technology. This is the second and last version I'm buying until a complete rewrite is avaiable. Skip all the memory-sapping doodads, make the game simple, fast, stable, and not dependent on the CD being in the drive, and I'll pay 50 bucks for it.

fun game, once you get it to work

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I received this game as a gift so didn't have a chance to check out the reviews on this site before I bought unfortunately, I don't know if I would buy it again. I have Windows XP and the only way to get the game to work is to turn off my firewall before starting the program. Since I have a laptop I just turn off my internet access, then turn off the firewall, then the program works fine. It took quite a while for me to figure out how to get the game working so I just thought I would add my experience to potentially save others the time and aggravation I experienced. The game itself is great!

Worthless--Do not buy if you have Win XP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: October 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Can't get this program to work with Windows XP at all. Screen goes black and locks up the computer. Atari does not offer any kind of patch to fix their program, but suggests you open Windows Task Manager and start shutting down all the background program on your computer to eliminate conflicts. Sorry, but I'm not shutting down my anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall programs to play a stupid video game!

Exasperating program

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: May 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In addition to all of the valid points mentioned in the other review on this site I found that this software seems very old... sort of as if it were written for Windows 95. It will only run from the CD drive and cannot be copied to run from the hard drive. The commands are not well labelled and are not intuitive. But the most maddening thing is that, while playing a game, it will sometimes spontaneously start some sort of auto play function and start making moves and just finish the game while you watch helplessly.

Endless loop

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 25
Date: November 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Installed Scrabble in Windows XP and tried to play, but got an error message/OK and on OK it played itself and I coundn't get out of the loop. Hard re-boot required.

Game Does Not Work on My XP Computer!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: September 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After many re-installations, I have given up on this game. It keeps crashing my six-month old computer running XP. After I installed a new hard drive after my old one got corrupted due to a virus, I reinstalled Scrabble to see if it would work again. The game loaded up okay, but when I went to play it against Maven the computer player, the game was on auto-pilot! I had no control over what words I could make on my turn -- the computer program was doing everything!! Obviously, there are some serious bugs in this game. I am very disappointed that once again I blew $20 on a game I cannot play. There are no patches on the company's website, either.

This is why people need to be able to sue

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I wish I had read the reviews before I purchased this "XP compatible" game. It is a lie!! Very dishonest to say the game is compatible and not mention that the only way you can play it is to disable your firewall!! There needs to be a recall and a class action suit!! And people wonder why there are so many "frivolous" lawsuits!! (to keep companies honest??) I can't believe they made this product the way they did.

Agree With Mary

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Scrabble installed, but wouldn't launch...black screen, had to do hard reboot. Boggle wouldn't install AT ALL. Infogrames owes a huge apology to anyone who bought these two coasters.

Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been a Scrabble player for many years. When I moved to a new home hundreds of miles away, one of the things I knew I'd miss was playing Scrabble with my friends. I bought this version which promises internet play. Trying to make it work across AOL and other service providers has been very difficult. Playing through Zone.com requires you to accept an unacceptable privacy policy. I've given up on internet play with it. The game can be annoying because unlike the original Hasbro version, you have fewer options in play such as when you are challenged and the tile shuffle has a weird grab and switch letter feature. There were problems getting it to load on XP.

Scrabble Complete-HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Scrabble Complete has caused nothing but problems since it was installed on my computer running Windows XP. When first installed it wouldn't run and locked up the computer. After rebooting it did run ok for the remainder of that day. But the following day it would not run and again locked up XP. Unstalled and reinstalled many times, same thing happened. Hasbro and Infogrames were never any help and neither is Atari who now owns the rights to this fiasco. Never any patches or help. Amazon would do it's customers a favor by refusing to sell this game. DON'T BUY SCRABBLE COMPLETE! I'd really give it zero stars, but the dropdown box wouldn't allow a zero.

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