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The brilliance of Battle Chess (therectangle.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by stankycman@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social
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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can play it in your web-browser here: https://archive.org/details/battle_chess_1988

[–] Clangbang@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Aww man! Thanks. I played this as a kid and completely forgot about it. What a blast

[–] UKFilmNerd@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I remember seeing this for the first time on a friend's PC. The animation blew me away and I'll never forget hearing the hard disk crunching away as the animations were loaded.

[–] Decidable@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy. Haven't thought about that game in years. Fond memories!

[–] Itsmeshakes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes! We had this game on all our school computers when I was in grade 6, so many memories.

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Love it! Played it a ton way back when!

[–] LennethAegis@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What a blast from the past. I loved playing this game on the family computer back when I was a kid. The death animations were very entertaining.

[–] Parallax@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I loved Battle Chess. What kind of hardware did people play it on back then?

[–] Mirrorgiraffe@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Amiga 500, but I mainly goofed around for different animations rather than actually playing chess.