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Battleship
You sank my battleship. Grid coordinates, red peg hits, and lying faces across the table.
- Era
- 60s
- Released
- 1967
- Category
- board games
- Availability checked
- 7/17/2026
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The pitch
You sank my battleship! Hide your fleet on the grid, call out coordinates, and hunt your enemy's ships. Hit, miss, hit, sink! The naval combat game that taught a generation to say B4 and E7 with deadly seriousness.
Why people remember it
- Calling B-4 felt like military radio.
- Portable cases meant travel games on planes.
- Electronic versions added explosion sounds for drama.
Did you know?
- Battleship evolved from a 1930s pencil and paper game called Salvo.
- Milton Bradley added the plastic pegboard version in 1967 with red and white hit and miss pegs.
- The electronic version with sound effects became a bestseller in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Hasbro's movie adaptation in 2012 was loosely tied to the game but featured alien ships.
How people search for it
“you sunk my battleship”, “peg ship guessing game”, “naval grid game”
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Questions people ask
- Can you still buy Battleship?
- Hasbro sells classic and electronic versions. Salvo variants exist for advanced rules.
- Did people peek?
- Always. Honor system was the real boss.
