Battlestar Galactica (board game)

Battlestar Galactica is a 1979 wargame published by FASA and licensed from the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series, focusing narrowly on starfighter combat between the show's Colonial Viper fighters and Cylon Raiders rather than attempting to depict large capital ship battles. A contemporary review in Space Gamer magazine noted that the game lives up to its own subtitle describing it as a game of starfighter combat, while cautioning prospective players not to expect the kind of large scale battleship engagements associated with the show's larger battlestars and baseships. The design instead concentrates on maneuver and combat between individual small craft, giving players direct tactical control over dogfights of the sort that recur throughout the television series. As one of several licensed tabletop games built from Battlestar Galactica during its original run, it illustrates how television science fiction properties of the late 1970s were adapted into hobby wargames that isolated one specific type of on screen combat rather than modeling an entire fictional conflict.