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Battleship is a revision of the board game popularised by the Milton Bradley Company.The game contains several variants: 'Classic', which generally follows the turn-based rules of the board game, and the more in-depth 'Ultimate Battleship', where players manipulate fleets of ships on a larger playing field in real-time.
In arcade, the player controls the Battleship, travelling in 3D maps and destroying opposing ships, turrets, and planes as the player attempts to reach the exit. As the Battleship, the player can fire in four directions, call in a whale to extinguish a fire, and take advantage of various power-ups found throughout the game's 20 maps.
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. Horsman's 1890 game Basilinda, [1] and the game is said to have been played by Russian officers before World War I. [3] In 1907 the game playing was mentioned in the diary of Russian poet Ryurik Ivnev. [4]
Battlestations: Midway is a video game developed by Eidos Hungary and released in 2007 for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.The Mac version of this game was developed by Robosoft Technologies, based out of India and published in July 2008 by Feral Interactive.
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There also have been other versions of Battleship, including Battleships for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, Battleship for CD-i, Battleship for Game Boy and Game Boy Color, and others for PC and mobile phones. There was a sequel on the Super NES and Sega Genesis, Super Battleship.
Super Battleship is a naval simulator played by sailing ships to a close enough range to shoot an opponent's ships and cities. Super Battleship contains 16 missions that must be completed within a certain number of rounds. Ships have four different weapons: missiles, torpedoes, depth charges, and guns.
Battleships Forever is an IGF award-nominated [2] freeware real-time tactics video game set in a futuristic space environment inspired by Warning Forever.While still in beta phase, [3] there is no further development by the author.