Battleship, Electronic Battleship, and Electronic Talking Battleship

Manufactured by Milton Bradley
Released in 1943 (pen and paper version, original plastic board game release is not listed), 1977 Electronic Battleship, 1989 Electronic Talking Battleship
Wikipedia Entry

I probably don't need to tell you what Battleship is. Although two of its iterations were made before the 80's, Electronic Talking Battleship was released in 1989. Wikipedia explains the pen and paper version of Battleship, "...is played on four square grids, two for each player. The grids are typically square – usually 10 × 10 – and the individual squares in the grid are identified by letter and number. On one grid the player arranges ships and records the shots by the opponent. On the other grid the player records their own shots. Before play begins, each player arranges a number of ships secretly on the grid for that player. Each ship occupies a number of consecutive squares on the grid, arranged either horizontally or vertically. The number of squares for each ship is determined by the type of the ship. The ships cannot overlap (i.e., at most one ship can occupy any given square in the grid)."
That was basically the concept for the original plastic Battleship Board Game. For some reason, the original release of the plastic board game is nowhere to be found online.

Electronic Battleship was released in 1979 (1977 according to Board Game Geek). This used the same rules except that the board game was one piece with electronic lights and sounds.

At the end of the 80's, Milton Bradley released Electronic Talking Battleship. Guess what it did.

Battleship was also released as a  video game on the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. A popular release was on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Wikipedia Entry for that is here

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More and more versions of this uberpopular classic have survived many versions styles and rip-offs over the years. Definitely an 80's staple.