HASBRO Battleship Touch Screen Pocket Pogo User Manual

touch

screen

INSTRUCTIONS

FOR

1 PLAYER

CONTENTS

Game Unit with Stylus Spare Stylus

OBjECT

Sink the enemy fleet in four challenging BAlTLESHIP game
adventures!

A

LOOK

OF THE

AT

TOUCH-SENSITIVE SCREEN

Touch certain words and icons to select opttons and play games.

CAME

YOUR

CAME

POWER:

AGES

Press

8+

game,

view

view special messages and

high score,

1.

Press

POWER

default

to

2.

Memu

screen with a chol'ce of these four options:

Touch

CAME

the one you want appears. Then touch
Touch Hrto see the current high score. Touch

Touch @ to see
edm/pocket websltie.
After reading the message& tdkh

as

it

scrolls.

Touch

on the bar graph repeatedly
touch

m.

Note:

If no buttons are pressed for abut

te

_

"steep."

Game

Came

1 OX1

the

computer's ships, and the computer can't
You and the computer take turns firing missiles, hoping to hit each

other's hidden ships.

'

Your goal is
fleet before your own fleet

of

.

Summary:

0

ocean grid. Position youv4bs

cqppter

hits needed to sink each ship.

to power up the game.

irst time you turn on the game

Menu.

Each

the

thegame-is Wrried on after that,

the

last

game

play&.

C@&ms:

1

to

The

MM

Mu appears along the bottom of the

and then the name of each game repeatedly until

if

there are any messa g for you to use on the pogo.

will

ffpsh if th%

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T

to

adjust

the

vdm~&

&

rr9heWf~wef the volume, then

To "wake

-

CLASSIC

positions

score enough hits to sink each ship in the computer's

it

up,"

press

BATTLES~~IP

You and tho

its

E&h.missile will either hit

'"computefl

ships on its own

is

sunk. The chart below shows the number

it

will

automatically default

to play.

when finished.

is

a

new message waiting.

To

skip a messqe, just touch

the

left

or right arrows

60

seconds, the game will

POW-

each have your

sf-h

ships on your grid while

@id.

You cadt see the

t

Furs.

or

miss an enemy ship.

it

will

own

it

SHIP

Battleship

i

Destroyer

,

I

patrol hat

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1.

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following:

much
the same.

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or

SALVO

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to

fim

wirl

w

SQUARES

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hat

pi~h

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4

3

2

thegrid.

fie

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HITS

SINK

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4

3

2

ad

the

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example, if you have 3 ships
plays the same way.

2.

AUTO

the following:

or

MANUAL

Automatic Positioning:

to randomly select a pre-set fleet pattern.

Manual Positioning:

your ships individually on the grid.

The game will display the first of five ships to be placed on the grid.

a

Touch
black dots starting with the square you touched. If
the area selected, it will be placed as close to that location

You may rotate a ship vertically or horizontally by touching
decide to relocate a ship, just touch another square, and the ship will
move to that area.

When your ship
will change to hollow squares. The next ship is then displayed for
positioning. Keep going until you've positioned all five of

square and the ship will appear horizontally

is

where you want

lek,

you fire-3 shots). ~hl computer

will then appear under the grid. Do one

Touch

Touch

AUTO

MANUAL

it,

touch

if

you want the compute

a

you want

and the dots

to

position

as

a

series of

theship won't fit in

as

possible.

R.

If you

your ships.

of

HOW TO PLAY

Once you've set up your ships, the game begins. Below the grid you'll
see

VOUR

a

number showing how many shots you can take.

Your Turn:

things will happen:

MISS

flashes below the grid and a bla

HIT

occupied by an enemy ship,

HIT flashes below the grid

and the grid square

in black.

SUNK

square occupied by a ship,

it's

the screen, while the ship's silhouette reappears and then

"sinks" below the grid.

Computer's Turn:

computer will take
automatically. You'll see your
ships on

be hidden from the computer.

The same rules for hitting,

missing and sinking ships
apply. The squares will fill in as
shown here.

WINNING THE GAME:

shi s wins the game. The screen will identify the winner by displaying

V&U

You earn points

SKILL LEVEL:

game becomes. (If you start losing
becomes easier.)

TURN.

-

If the target square is n

-

If the target square

-

If you hit the

sunk! SUNK flashes on

the grid, but they'll

,mi

On the lower right side you'll see a bomb

Select a square to shoot at by touching

is

filled

last

The

its

turn

or

GAME WON

as

described below.

The more games you win, the more challenging the

[&I

and

it.

One

is

GAME'S

The first to sink the opponent's fleet of five

in the lower right side of the screen.

at

a

TURN

higher skill level, the game

I.

(

is

displayed at the end