>famous for being a mostly gimmick computer chess game with cool battle animations>the only console port was this NES one by Beam Software, probably based off the Apple II/C64 code base>the animations are so slow to get through it will drive you nutsTo be fair it was worse on the C64 due to about 8 seconds of disk access for each battle animation. The game is really better played on any of the 16-bit computer versions, the 8-bit ones don't quite cut it.
>>12565682no Mega Drive port? would have been fairly trivial to port the Amiga version to it.
This is a perfect example of a game being one of the most famous games of its era while also entirely forgotten today.If you had a computer in the late 80's early 90's, you've played this game. It's that simple.
>>12565707as he said, it's a total tech demo gimmick and beyond that it's just another computer chess game so there's zero reason to play it today
>>12565707>If you had a computer in the late 80's early 90's, you've played this game. It's that simple.Yep, that's the first way I ever played chess, on a 5170.
I played GNU Chess on Windows 3.11. That has a later 32-bit version so you can play it on modern Windows. Might run kinda fast though.
>>12565682There was one other NES chess game, The Chessmaster which was also a port from the C64.
There's probably some loser out there who collects these old ass chess games for every retro system and makes a point of beating them on the hardest difficulty. Couldn't be me, haha...
>>12565682the Mexican Runner beat this in i think 22 minutes but he turned off the battle animations. lame.
>>12565834I wonder if some Japanese guy collects shogi and Mahjong games and does same?
>>12565718Chessmaster was the legit challenging chess engine, it didnt compare high hend dedicated purpose built chess computers and some ofnthe more expensive engines, but it did sell 5 million copies over the years.Battlechess is just a very beginner friendly chess videogame. Battlechess 4000 was a bit tougher but still nothing compared to chessmaster.
>>12565682>runs a chess AI on 128 bytes of RAMI've always been fascinated by Video Chesshttps://nanochess.org/video_chess.html
