This game was published in a Dutch MSX magazine called MSX Gids. I was not a subscriber and only bought it when the listings interested me. I remember this magazine as the one that had the most listings, more than any other magazine in the Netherlands.
In Dutch the game is called Zeeslag, which is translated as Seawar, but the game principe
is more common known as Battleship so I translated that way.
I didnt want to change much in the intro screen, it's a lot of work drawing the long title "Battleship" instead of "ZEESLAG".
What I did change was the manual,speed up the music, change the controls so you can use your joystick or cursors instead pressing some keys to go on. Ad Houwenaars did a terrific job, programming it. It's easy to read the listing and change it, its divided in labeled routines, not very common in MSX Basic games. Most of the time the listings are compressed to speed up the game. Well, Battleship is no action game, there is no timelimit or fast reponses needed. The purpose of the game is find all hidden ships in a square, by firing shots. If you hit something the game will let you know by showing the right colour.
It could be made as a MSX-1 game, but SCREEN 2 is not big enough to show all needed information, that is why mr. Houwenaars choose for the biggest MSX-2 screen, SCREEN 7.
Now every info you need has a place on the screen, which made the game more playable and re-playable. So yes this is a MSX-2 ( and higher) game, with good reason.
The biggest change I made, was let the player decide if he want to play or wait for the manual. Once you played the game, you know the rules and dont want to see the ever again.
I inserted my highscore 241, it won't be easy to beat, cause you need a bit of luck too.
The game is truely 1 player game, you don't need to play again your MSX ( cause MSX won't play fair) or anyone else. Just get the highest score, thats all. And I like that.
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