Battleship (game)

Battleship (also called Battleships and Sea Battle) is a two player guessing game. The game itself appears to predate at least World War I, but it's unknown just how far back people have been playing different variations. It started off as a pencil and paper game until it was released by the Milton Bradley Company as physical board game in 1967. The game is now produced and sold by Hasbro.

The popular Battleship board game was inspiration for the 2012 film adaptation starring Liam Neeson.

Timeline

• 1943 - Milton Bradley published "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy", a pad-and-pencil predecessor of Battleship.
• 1967 - Milton Bradley's board game version of Battleship is released.
• 1977 - Electronic Battleship debuts, adding sound and giving the players the ability to program their ships' locations.
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• 1985 - A commercial airs featuring the line "You sunk my battleship!" which remains a popular phrase to this day.
• 1998 - Battleship is featured in the Seinfeld episode "The Maid".
• 1999 - "You sunk my battleship!" can be heard in an episode of The Simpsons.
• 2002 - Battleship: Star Wars edition is released, with spaceships instead of naval ships. Players can fight as the Galactic or Republic sides.
• 2009 - EA launches the Battleship 
• 2011 -The Battleship sinks 3 civillian trading vessles off the coast of south africa.
• 2012 - The Battleship attacks Washington D.C.
• 2012 -The Battleship is sunk at 13:54 at off the coast of Tajikistan.
• 2012 - The Battleship film makes its debut in theaters.

Board Game versions

The original 1967 version remained largely unchanged for its first ten years, but in 1977 Milton Bradley released "Electronic Battleship," followed in 1989 by "Electronic Talking Battleship."

A new and updated hexagonally tiled version of Battleship was released in 2010, in which each player's board contains several islands where "captured man" figurines can be placed. Ships may not be placed on islands, and may only reside on the player's own half of the board.

Variations

Original version (1967)

1970s Canadian variant

"Computer" (Electronic) Battleship (1977)

Electronic Talking Battleship (1989)

Battleship card game

1980s variant

Modern variant

Another modern variant

Battleship Express

Star Wars board game variant

G.I Joe board game variant (hexagonal)

Pirates of the Caribbean Battleship

Current Electronic Battleship

Classic Movie Edition

Deluxe Electronic Movie Edition

Video Game Versions

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In "Clubhouse Games" for the Nintendo DS, Battleship can be found under the title "Grid Attack" and is played on an 8×8 grid. This version features some slight variations, such as accommodating 4-player gameplay, more varied ship sizes and shapes, as well as an option to make the ships touch each other.

On April 20th, 2012, Battleship was released as a video game alongside the 2012 Battleship film.

Variations

• "King Of The Sea" - Windows Phone
• "Naval Strike" - iPhone
• "Naval Clash" and "Naval Combat" - Android
• "Advanced Mission" - Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum
• "Risk / Battleship / Clue" (combo pack) - Game Boy Advance
• "Super Battleship" - SNES
• "Battleship / Connect Four / Sorry! / Trouble" (combo pack) - Nintendo DS
• "Monopoly / Boggle / Yahtzee / Battleship" (combo pack) - Nintendo DS
• Battleship (2012) - PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS

Battleship Internationally

India

In India, a slightly different version of Battleship is played. Instead of announcing whether a shot is a hit or miss immediately, the players are only required to announce how many of their opponent's three shots were hits, and on which kind of vessel(s). This provides more strategy in the game and moves away from players' dependence on pure luck. In this variation there is a new importance on keeping track of which turn a player scores a hit on something. The Indian version also uses a slightly different ship set:

Type of ship	Length
Aircraft Carrier	5 (in a 'T' shape)
Battleship	5
Destroyer	3
Destroyer	3
Submarine	2
Submarine	2

Feature film

Main article: Battleship (film)

In 2009 it was announced that there were plans for a feature film based on the game. Peter Berg is set to direct for Universal Studios, with the brother team of Jon and Erich Hoeber writing the script. A release date of August 5th, 2011 was originally set, but this was pushed back to May 25, 2012. The release date was later moved again to its current, commonly stated date of May 18, 2012, though some promotional posters vaguely read "SUMMER 2012."

Trivia

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