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Battle chess and whatever happened to it?

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 1:38 pm
by MJMcCready
As I teen I remember playing it, here's a review but was it ever so popular? Why? Why not? 1988 review.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6HYbQCRwgk

Re: Battle chess and whatever happened to it?

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 2:09 pm
by Jon D'Souza-Eva
I played a quick game on this site:
https://bestdosgames.com/games/battle-chess/play
It works best if you shrink the size of your browser window quite a bit, otherwise the pixelation is hard on the eyes.

Re: Battle chess and whatever happened to it?

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 4:21 pm
by Jon Mahony
I used to have Starwars Chess on the Sega CD which was similar - it was quite cool but the only problem was every time you took a piece an animation of a light sabre battle or something would play out and it made it a long game. Tried it again on emulation recently and it was too much like hard work.

Re: Battle chess and whatever happened to it?

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 5:32 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
Battle Chess was fun, but the program was quite weak. So I suppose good players wouldn't bother with it much. Having said that, I assume it wasn't produced with good players in mind!