8mo ago

Found this while going through old stuff. I'm terrible at chess, but I would play expecting to lose just to watch the animations.

It was like my own Millennium Falcon holo-chess, except, you know, not that cool.

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The rook taking pieces was my favorite thing! We had it for the Amiga.
- Devouring the queen and flattening pawns with one punch.
My brother and I would set the other up just so we could see new cut scenes!
Pawns don't often take queens and kings without a little help.
- Think of all the effort you spent when you could have just waited 36 years to watch a video compilation instead.
  
  It doesn't seem to say, but I think that's the MS-DOS version.
  I don't know if they ever made a color Mac version. I definitely don't remember if that one was in color because I eventually got the MS-DOS version and I can't remember if they were the same.
  But this is a video I can find for the Mac version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKlUtx5tHg
  Weirdly, there was a color version for the Apple IIgs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXnAcUAN0W4
  Every version was different. This is the Amiga version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADcEI84wMX0
  
  God damn the nostalgia hits hard
System 7 Ready!
- Worked great on my LC II!
  
  That was my first computer! I wanted this game so bad back then, never had it. I’ll have to spin it up on my os-9’ed g4 Mac mini, hopefully it still runs in 9, most things I’ve tried do.
OP did you not know about this? https://youtu.be/kIUlmuEtgkY
- I did not, but it looks like it came out in the 90s and Battle Chess came out in the 80s.
  
  I hope you are appropriately blown away by watching C3P0 kill Darth Vader
I had this on the commodore Amiga. It was an absolute classic.
Man, I don’t know why, but I remember the animations from this game. I think maybe my dad had an old demo of it?
- It was ported to everything in the late 80s, nes included, so it wouldn't surprise me. 7 year old me totally sucked at the fighting.
Why don’t we have a modern version of that? I’d love a modern well-animated fancy chess game.
- It would be cool to do in VR too.
Oh man, what a game. I remember playing it as a kid.
- #metoo
I'd remember playing this on Nintendo when I was around 7 years old. My cool ass already knew how to play chess for a year or so, but I would absolutely bomb it during the fights.

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