Played the heck out of it back in the day…the Chess computer it used was kind of weak though, so I thought I was damn good until I found out otherwise playing ranked real players.
O m g you just reminded me of my childhood.
The first ever computer had was my folks handmedown Comodore when they finally upgraded to a more modern PC
Back when I played this game, I had no idea how to play chess. Someone set it up for me, and I was just there to move the pieces and watch the animations. It was awesome!
Archon was the best. Battlechess is just chess with death animations. Archon was chess but you also had to be good at video games to win. And I remember my brother and I had a Phoenix/Shapeshifter battle that lasted 90 whole minutes. (I beat him as the Phoenix)
when i was a designer we would go way over the top of what was tasteful so that the customer would pull it back instead if pushing for more. we called it the parisian style
Will always recall first playing this on a relative's A500 & the fx belting out of the stereo CBM monitor,& feeling like the star wars chess scene coming to life! Would spend hours just trying the different combinations...a shame there's nothing like this these days! (Not full of mtx sadly)
Was it a specific version of the game other than C64 and Amiga because her name isn't mentioned on Lemon 64 or Lemon Amiga, and on her wiki, the game isn't listed under games she created or was involved in? She is indeed one of the great pioneers of early gaming, of course.
(1988) When I saw an AMIGA computer in display windows at a shopping mall computer-store, with the 3D Battle Chess, that was the moment I decided that I needed a home computer.
I am old enough to remember playing this on our first home computer. Honorable mention to CyClones, early FPS title. Brian Fargo is responsible more hours of my entertainment than maybe any other singular human in history 😅
I played on the NES, but we didn't get the instructions (rented it). I thought it would act like a beat 'em up, where pressing buttons during the animation had an affect on the outcome lol
Used my first computer in 1982, Apple IIE. A magazine called 321 Contact used to publish programs for various computers, that you could do yourself. It would be like a fireworks display, or similar. Commodore 64 came along shortly and blew my mind.
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Utterly masterpiece
https://youtu.be/3_H63tOU6r8
I miss that 500 at times...
The first ever computer had was my folks handmedown Comodore when they finally upgraded to a more modern PC
Love me some Archon and liked Archon 2 even more!
I love being a Xennial.
It's one of the slickest bits of malicious compliance I've ever heard of.
https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/
The chess game was secondary to the animations!
Unique animation for every piece vs any other piece.
This and Archon Ultra!
Rebecca Heineman
Maybe PC?
– Attributed to Emma Goldman
Bring your dance soundtrack to the next protest and dance like no one's watching
https://youtu.be/Sf3pvXDfRQM?si=hJ_fAwny8PXf367o
One can never play 'too much' chess.
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It was the first animated, 3D version of chess I had ever seen; I was around 7 yo... 😂
Also Archon!
It was great, but only once I'd got a hard drive.
Loading the animations from floppy was painful.
Of course, I never could win any chess beyond Level 0 or 1. Never had the skill to win a game.