The funny thing is, the commercial makes it look like you are in big trouble when you lose your battleship. But that's one of the FIRST things you want to lose. Obviously, when it gets down to the endgame, the one ship you want left is your destroyer because that's the hardest to locate, and even if you are behind, you still have a decent chance.
I loved Battleship, not just for its suspense, but also because it was one of the first portable games, looking way ahead to the laptop, the BlackBerry, and electronic games, as a concept way ahead of its time. No wonder it's still popular today. Thanks for posting!
They say you can play it anywhere. But honestly, what parents going to let their kid take all that crap in the station wagon, much less some dock of a bay.
Yes that was Ricky Paull Goldin as a very young lad..probably around 7 or 8, Ricky just turned 42 this year, so it probably aired sometime in 1975 or so.
I believe the boy who says "Aw, you sunk my battleship" is none other than Ricky Paull Goldin (when he was a young lad) from the soap All My Children! He's an awesome actor on it now!
Def looked late 60s. The boys still had short hair wt their ears showing, shirts wt bold horizontal stripes. Nobodies using lame fake "young people language", like "hey man" or "out-of-sight!" Narrator still sounds like an authoritative Ward Cleever type of grownup.
It wasn't made in 1967. It was made in the early '70s The game came out in 1967 but had a sexist cover with the son and father playing it, and the mother and daughter washing dishes in the kitchen. The commercial that first came out showed two seamen playing it and then their superior came out and said "What's goin' on here?" One of the players replies "He sank my battleship!" and the superior forms an angry "O" with his mouth while a ship's horn plays on the soundtrack.
@@davidjohnson7846 that's the cover that was on the set that i got as a child. i still have the game, the box it came in with that cover i threw out years ago since it was falling apart.
UNC-Chapel Hilly uses the game "battleship" in its Naval Weapons Systems NAVS302 course for basketball players and other fine athletes. Tyler Handyburrough was a weapons specialist from what I hear?
He would a been a great narrator for this commercial, "Battle Ships a game of strategy and you can play it ANYWHERE! Stratego and Radarsearch are POISON"....."Well gentlemen, I don't think I need to tell you that you've just seen history being made"
The boy who fell into the water is now 56. I dated him! Lol. He is also married to some kind of princess in Monaco and get this......is a master harbor chief!
The boy falling backward off of the pier was my school friend Michael. This ad was shot in circa 1968
The funny thing is, the commercial makes it look like you are in big trouble when you lose your battleship. But that's one of the FIRST things you want to lose.
Obviously, when it gets down to the endgame, the one ship you want left is your destroyer because that's the hardest to locate, and even if you are behind, you still have a decent chance.
You meant easiest to move stealthily.
@@Psychol-Snooper just make sure to keep track of the enemy misses in that case :)
@@snorman1911 I did... I mean would have, were I a cheater as a tween.
I loved Battleship, not just for its suspense, but also because it was one of the first portable games, looking way ahead to the laptop, the BlackBerry, and electronic games, as a concept way ahead of its time. No wonder it's still popular today. Thanks for posting!
This is the Battleship Commercial I remember as a kid in the late 60s/early 70s.
CLASSIC! Especially the kid falling backwards into the drink! I LOVE it!
I love the taunting at the end.
Unfortunately I had no friends that were willing to fall backwards in water once their battleship was sunk!
They say you can play it anywhere. But honestly, what parents going to let their kid take all that crap in the station wagon, much less some dock of a bay.
A great game but hardly a game of strategy.
Armand Rodriguez the only part with strategy is placing the boats
Very much a game of luck
Luck and strategy.
Yes that was Ricky Paull Goldin as a very young lad..probably around 7 or 8, Ricky just turned 42 this year, so it probably aired sometime in 1975 or so.
I believe the boy who says "Aw, you sunk my battleship" is none other than Ricky Paull Goldin (when he was a young lad) from the soap All My Children! He's an awesome actor on it now!
Nope, not him!
Loved Battleship as a kid . I was born in 1979 and played this all the time
It's likely from 1967/1968 as the box featured in the commercial was printed in 1967.
Otherwise no date was published.
Def looked late 60s. The boys still had short hair wt their ears showing, shirts wt bold horizontal stripes.
Nobodies using lame fake "young people language", like "hey man" or "out-of-sight!" Narrator still sounds like an authoritative Ward Cleever type of grownup.
You sunk my battleship (Bismarck)
I just played this game today☺️
0:20 That boy ended up splashing himself down in the water! 😅😅😅 Still great commercial.
I remember this commercial in the 1970's when I was a few years old. I didn't know this commercial originally was made in 1967.
+ThisGuyFrritz I remember it too! My bro & I loved this game. Now I play it with my daughters
It wasn't made in 1967. It was made in the early '70s The game came out in 1967 but had a sexist cover with the son and father playing it, and the mother and daughter washing dishes in the kitchen. The commercial that first came out showed two seamen playing it and then their superior came out and said "What's goin' on here?" One of the players replies "He sank my battleship!" and the superior forms an angry "O" with his mouth while a ship's horn plays on the soundtrack.
@@davidjohnson7846 that's the cover that was on the set that i got as a child. i still have the game, the box it came in with that cover i threw out years ago since it was falling apart.
Coming soon to a theater near you!
RPG was adorable when he was a little boy! Love this!
Mattel had a game like this also.
Well, I know I always play Battleship while sitting on the edge of the dock. Why bother with swimming when you can play a board game instead?
Battleship is one of my favorite board games
Liam Neeson: YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!!!
If i do not hear that line in the movie, i will have lost all hope in humanity
UNC-Chapel Hilly uses the game "battleship" in its Naval Weapons Systems NAVS302 course for basketball players and other fine athletes. Tyler Handyburrough was a weapons specialist from what I hear?
One of my favourite games.
Best commercial
Ooh do the kabooms come with the game?
0:22 clip from the opening theme of Wonder Showzen!
(c)1967,2021 Hasbro inc.
BATTLEEEEE…SHIP
0:22 Wonder Showen xD
BATTLESHIP! **BATTLESHIP!**
it would suck if they spilled all the pegs into the water
How disturbing would it be if the kid who fell into the water didn't come back up... and his opponent kept laughing?
now i'm going to have nightmares
That kid laughing is also part of the intro from that show called wonder showns
I used to play this! I would say, " I'm the U.S.A.".. what country do you want to be?" Ha!
Wow, thats a real mean trick but an effective one. Wish I'd been as smart as you as a kid
Is one of the Kids (the one that doesn't fall) Peter Brady from the Brady Bunch?
@cheeky577
You're welcome!
“You sunk my battleship Comrade!”
Well, tough shit Putin.
I might be the only one here trying to figure out what ships are in the start of the commercial.
i used to play tjs game but cheat i used to move the ships
must be a democrat
Anyone from Potential History?
Me
A game of TOTALEN KRIEG from DEUTSCHLAND
Ooof
prepare ur ass
Liam Neeson is going to play the kid who falls in the water.
Ya I was wrong. America sunk that day.
Ha I have that
Battleship? Battleship.
cool 70s?
oh, I see now it's from 1968
@pulsatingremedy Manarxism?
So this is how Romney thinks naval warfare works....
she falls off the boat when she loses?
Where's Don Draper when you need him?
He would a been a great narrator for this commercial, "Battle Ships a game of strategy and you can play it ANYWHERE! Stratego and Radarsearch are POISON"....."Well gentlemen, I don't think I need to tell you that you've just seen history being made"
haha yeah, about that...
When did this air?
Pew
Battleship is the game I would like to nickname "The German Big Oof" from Deutschland.
The German Big Oof: ua-cam.com/video/e8Sj-TwYef8/v-deo.html
Have you seen that "thing" yet? Or are you just going along with the public opinion of others who haven't seen that "thing"?
is this from the 60s or 70s?
HA YOU MISSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how old are those kids now
The boy who fell into the water is now 56. I dated him! Lol. He is also married to some kind of princess in Monaco and get this......is a master harbor chief!
@@lovingindianriver Does he still fall back off of docks? Like if tourists pay him enough?
How to *bully* 101
A game of incorrect grammar. "Sank" not "sunk."