Found this while going through old stuff. I'm terrible at chess, but I would play expecting to lose just to watch the animations.

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• phanto@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKlUtx5tHg

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

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      God damn the nostalgia hits hard

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  System 7 Ready!

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Worked great on my LC II!

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    • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• KuroiKaze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    #metoo

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• gcheliotis@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would be cool to do in VR too.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• r00ty@kbin.life ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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