''Battleships'' is the international title of a video game based on the classic board game. The object is to sink the opponent's entire

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(six ships) without him sinking the player's fleet first. This version of the game had the particularity of allowing fire by salvos of up to 24 shots, depending on the number of unsunk ships the player had. After all shots were placed by the player, a scene showing a ship firing its guns at the enemy fleet was played, showing hits and damage. The game could be played in Hotseat, since each player's fleet placement was never shown after the game had started proper. There also have been other versions of the battleship game for various consoles and handheld devices, including '' Battleship''.

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*'' Computer and Video Games'' (CVG) (Sep, 1987) *''

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Your Sinclair ''Your Sinclair'', or ''YS'' as it was commonly abbreviated, was a commercially published and printed British computer magazine for the Sinclair range of computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum. It was in circulation between 1984 and 1993. History T ...

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* 1987 video games Amiga games Amstrad CPC games BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games Commodore 64 games Naval video games Turn-based strategy video games Video games based on board games Video games based on Hasbro toys Video games developed in the United Kingdom ZX Spectrum games {{strategy-videogame-stub