Found this while going through old stuff. I'm terrible at chess, but I would play expecting to lose just to watch the animations.
from FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2024 13:25
https://lemmy.world/post/22200414

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

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phanto@lemmy.ca on 19 Nov 2024 13:26 next collapse

The rook taking pieces was my favorite thing! We had it for the Amiga.

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org on 19 Nov 2024 14:09 collapse

Devouring the queen and flattening pawns with one punch.

RagnarokOnline@programming.dev on 19 Nov 2024 13:45 next collapse

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?

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Nov 2024 19:24 collapse

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.

dhork@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2024 13:47 next collapse

System 7 Ready!

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2024 13:50 collapse

Worked great on my LC II!

carl_dungeon@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2024 14:28 collapse

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.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2024 14:45 next collapse

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.

uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca on 19 Nov 2024 15:10 collapse

Think of all the effort you spent when you could have just waited 36 years to watch a video compilation instead.

Cruxifux@feddit.nl on 19 Nov 2024 15:19 next collapse

God damn the nostalgia hits hard

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2024 17:16 collapse

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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKlUtx5tHg

Weirdly, there was a color version for the Apple IIgs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXnAcUAN0W4

Every version was different. This is the Amiga version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADcEI84wMX0

_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Nov 2024 15:49 next collapse

Oh man, what a game. I remember playing it as a kid.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Nov 2024 19:24 collapse

#metoo

r00ty@kbin.life on 19 Nov 2024 15:53 next collapse

I had this on the commodore Amiga. It was an absolute classic.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Nov 2024 19:22 next collapse

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.

KuroiKaze@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 2024 20:12 next collapse

OP did you not know about this? youtu.be/kIUlmuEtgkY?si=1w3yfJZ0WtzT_vWQ

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 2024 00:40 collapse

I did not, but it looks like it came out in the 90s and Battle Chess came out in the 80s.

KuroiKaze@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 2024 01:18 collapse

I hope you are appropriately blown away by watching C3P0 kill Darth Vader

gcheliotis@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 2024 14:30 collapse

Why don’t we have a modern version of that? I’d love a modern well-animated fancy chess game.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 24 Nov 2024 14:38 collapse

It would be cool to do in VR too.