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Game:Battleship
Milton Bradley Company1978
The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester , United States
The popular board game Battleship was first known as a pencil-and-paper game, played on gridlike sheets. Milton Bradley published a version on paper in 1931. The game bacame a household word, however, with the advertising campaign that accompanied MB's 1967 version. The advertising phrase that made its way into popular culture is "you sunk my battleship!"
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Details
- Title: Game:Battleship
- Creator: Milton Bradley Company
- Date Created: 1978
- Location: Springfield, MA
- Subject Keywords: battleship, war, strategy
- Type: More Games
- Medium: printed cardboard, plastic
- Object ID: 112.6131
- Credit Line: Gift of Andrew Cosman and Mary Valentine
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