Battleships

Information

Genre

Board Game - Battle Ships

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Mouse

Players

1, 1 vs. 2

Resolution

Low

Programmer(s)

Bak, Steve

Graphic Artist(s)

Lyon, Pete

Game design

[unknown]

Musician(s)

[unknown]

Sound FX

[unknown]

Dump

Missing dump(s)

Year

1991

Publisher

Elite

Distributor

EDOS

Developer

[n/a]

Licensed from

-

Country

United Kingdom

License

Commercial

Serial

140

ST Type

ST, STe, Falcon030, 0.5MB

Version

[Re-release]

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.8/10 · Votes: 535 · Downloads: 0 · Hits: 3,978

Screenshots (8)

Ads (1)

Trivia (3)

Conversion - Atari 8-bit

Cover game

Battleships was featured in the cover of C+VG issue September 1987.

Releases

First 8-bit releases reviewed in UK multiformat magazines for ZX Spectrum (8/1987), Commodore 64 (8/1987), Amstrad CPC (8/1987)
First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Atari ST (11/1987), Amiga (4/1988)

Based on the review data, the Atari ST version was released first on the 16-bit market in Europe, and ported later for other 16-bit systems.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.

Book / Magazine Reviews (3)

The Games Machine · December, 1987 · Rating: 65%

ST Action · June, 1988 · Rating: 66%

Zero · May, 1990 · Rating: 55%

Comments (1)

• IntoTheVerticalBlank — 2 Jul 2022

  An exquisitely designed and coded version of the classic board game. One or two players, great atmosphere, graphics and sound.