The best-known sea game is undoubtedly Battleship, variants of which were published by various companies under various names, initially as a pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s. The board-game manufacturer Milton Bradley published its first Battleship-style game in 1943, under the title Broadsides: The Game of Naval Strategy, a title that was distilled to Battleship in 1967. MB Games claims it has no record of who designed or named the game,14 but there were clear commercial precedents.
The origins of Battleship
