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Battleship (also Battleships or Sea Battle) is a guessing game for two players. It is known worldwide as a pencil and paper game which dates from World War I. It was published by various companies as a pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s, and was released as a plastic board game by Milton Bradley in 1967. ==History== The game of ''Battleship'' is thought to have its origins in the French game ''L'Attaque'' played during World War I, although parallels have also been drawn to E. I. Horseman's 1890 game ''Baslinda'', and the game is said to have been played by Russian officers before World War I. The first commercial version of the game was ''Salvo'', published in 1931 in the United States by the Starex company. Other versions of the game were printed in the 1930s and 1940s, including the Strathmore Company's ''Combat: The Battleship Game'', Milton Bradley's ''Broadsides: A Game of Naval Strategy'' and Maurice L. Freedman's ''Warfare Naval Combat''. Strategy Games Co produced a version called ''Wings'' which pictured planes flying over the Los Angeles Coliseum. All of these early editions of the game consisted of pre-printed pads of paper.〔 In 1967 Milton Bradley introduced a version of the game that used plastic boards and pegs. The method of play involved using pegboards and miniaturized plastic ships, and was thought of by Ed Hutchins. In 1977, Milton Bradley also released a computerized Electronic Battleship,〔(boardgamegeek.com )〕 followed in 1989 by Electronic Talking Battleship.〔(boardgamegeek.com )〕 In 2010, an updated version of Battleship was released, using hexagonal tiles. In the updated version, each player's board contains several islands on which "captured man" figurines can be placed. Ships may be placed only around the islands, and only in the player's half of the board. ''Battleship'' was one of the earliest games to be produced as a computer game, with a version being released for the Z80 Compucolor in 1979.〔〔http://titan.apiit.edu.my/pagol/projectinfo.asp?txtID=TP010249〕 Many computer editions of the game have been produced since. In Clubhouse Games for the Nintendo DS, Battleship is known as Grid Attack. It is played on an 8×8 grid, and includes slight variations, such as 4-player gameplay, various ship sizes and shapes, as well as the option to make the ships touch each other. Iterations of Battleship appear as applications on numerous social networking services. Battleship was also part of ''Hasbro Family Game Night'' for the PlayStation 2 and Wii, as well as the Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade). These alter the rules, including the size of the grid (8×12 in the NES version, 8×8 in the Game Boy version), size of ships (it is common to feature a submarine that takes up a single square) and special shot missiles for each ship (for example, in the NES version the cruiser has a 5-shot missile which strikes 5 squares in an X pattern on the grid in one turn. Submarine-tracking sonar and aerial reconnaissance to spot ships are also features). A minigame version of the game was used in the third season of The Hub's ''Family Game Night'', which uses a 5×5 grid and the first team to sink three ships wins the game. The 2012 film ''Battleship'' is an American science fiction action movie inspired by the board game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battleship (game)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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