Epic Win: Computer Battleship
Submitted by A Galves
Remember how the first time you got one of these you would inevitably play it for hours, mostly because the it took forever to program where all your ships were? Then the game would be over in five minutes because while you were reading the instructions your brother would be looking at where all your ships were placed. Our memories of Electronic Battleship were nothing like Milton Bradley’s vision of it:
We suspect most people remember a game of Battleship that went a little more like this (funny how this kid makes a point of mentioning they make talking Battleship now like it’s something that we didn’t all play back in the 80’s):
SLIGHT over-reaction…
please, do NOT give that child any pets…
Look Timmy I got you a dog!!!
“Kid boots it in the ass.”
ITS SO SLOW!!!:’(
Fetch puppy, FETCH!!!!!!
Fetch puppy, FETCH!!!!!!
“kicks dog in butt then sobs on ground”
Timmy!!!
I think its dead.
IT CAN’T BE!!!! (Stabs it with knife)
Ok its dead.
NOW BACK TO SCOOBY DOO!!!
homg.
What the hell?
Hate Battleship much?
And srsly, my computer takes longer than that to turn on. WTF?
I also second the hoping that child NEVER has access to a pet or child.
Ever.
that kid has major problems
I think we had a slightly different version of this game (may have been an off-brand) and it actually worked and was fun…
Uh oh.
Ok. Now I feel old. I grew up on the pre-computerized version.
Get off my lawn.
I didn’t even know there WAS a computerized version. But damn, I am having strange nostalgic feelings of wanting one. Like sympathy for the kid I was not even being aware that such a thing existed, and wanting one on her behalf.
Now, Girl Talk, I had. I definitely had Girl Talk.
roar, i need instant stimulus, roar
Wonder why it didn’t work? lol maybe because the kid beat the crap out of it on a regular basis? i had one and it worked perfectly! stupid kids…never give that child anything living!
Pretty sure it was a deliberate overreaction just to put on YouTube. Still, [grampa voice] obnoxious little whippersnappers!! [/grampa voice]
Yeah, I reckon it could have been set up, although he looked like the kind of kid to throw a major tantrum. maybe (if it is real. who knows?) he had just saved up all his pocket money or whatever for months and months, and then, like kids often do, jump to the conlcusion that it doesnt work because it takes a little while to turn on.
Still. Totally uncalled for and I completely agree with the above comment. Never, Ever, EVER give this kid something that is living. Never. (unless it was set up, then I’m not sure…)
Oops! sorry, wrong name in the above comment… lol
oodly i never saw this version the ones like this i had a kid were called electronic battleship , either way tis awesome
I never had a fancy Battleship. I had the regular non-computerized one. We actually had to say for ourselves whether or not it was a hit.
I’m thinking the video was a dramatization, but still, what obnoxious kids.
If this was my kid, I’d start treating him like the Battleship. “Go do your homework.” *Two seconds pass, beats the crap out of kid* GO FASTER DAMNIT!
This game is how I learned to curse as a child
“F&@CKER SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!”
OMG I HAD THAT!!!!
That was my favourite game as a kid. My parents would never buy batteries for it though
I had the electronic version; the worst part was waiting for the opponent to pick which pre-computed combination to use.
We had both versions when I was a kid and I could never get the electronic one to work. I’d just play with the sound effects to annoy my brother. Scary that I remember that commercial.
That kid was acting for the camera and doing a poor job of it. Keep that child away from my cat please.
Wow. Um. The kids wonder why the thing doesn’t work or turn on…did anyone else notice when he punched and kicked it across the floor? What obnoxious children.
I second keeping that kid away from my cat.
i had the regular one, it worked just fine.