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Spot

DOS - 1990
Also available on: Amiga - Arcade - Atari ST - Commodore 64

Spot is a fun Othello-style game starring 7Up's Spot character. In this board game for one or two players, your objective is to occupy as many tiles as possible by placing your pieces on the board. You can either move one or two spaces at a time. When you move one space, your piece will multiply itself into the new tile; jumping two spaces means simply moving your piece. Whenever you land on a tile next to your opponent, all his/her adjacent pieces become yours, changing to your color. The pieces morph into 7Up mascot when you move them, but that's about the extent of using this licensed. The computer AI is decent, and offers a good challenge.

Overall, a nice board game that could have used the Spots more extensively than several cute animations. Othello experts and fans of this type of game should take a look. And if you think this one looks suspiciously like the skulls board game in The 7th Guest, here is a neat bit of trivia: both games were designed by Graeme Devine, who left Virgin to form Trilobyte :)

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Tox 15 Feb. 2021

Some ingame screens would be nice

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wesclayton 24 Jun. 2013

i still got spot gos to Hollywood for Sega and got original case XD

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A Wise Old Man 19 Feb. 2013

Devine just ported the Skulls code to a stand-alone game, changed up all the graphics, and made a chunk of change off of a freebie game 7-Up marketed. Play the two side-by-side, and it's obvious the AI wasn't even tweaked.

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Downloads

DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
404 KB
Commodore 64 version
Game file
United Kingdom English
4 KB
Amiga version
Game file
United Kingdom English
3 MB
Atari ST version
Game file
United Kingdom English
601 KB
Arcade version
Arcadia, V 2.0
United Kingdom English
418 KB
Ready to play
United Kingdom English
1 MB

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