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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Devouring the queen and flattening pawns with one punch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

God damn the nostalgia hits hard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] RagnarokOnline 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.