The animators created eight disks full of material for the game, that needed to be packed into one single disk for the Amiga release. There are a lot of funny references, such as the scene where Indiana Jones gets rid of the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark.įor every combination of pieces, there is a different choreography: 35 in total. When a piece is going to capture another piece, there is a short - and comical - combat scene, and after that, the captured piece disappears. If you have watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone you know what I'm talking about. The idea is brilliant but straightforward: take the classic chess game, but every time a piece is captured, show an animation. The game was produced by Brian Fargo himself, founder of Interplay. It was followed by two sequels, Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess and Battle Chess 4000, and you can find references to this game in movies and other media. It was so successful that it had been ported to most platforms available, including MS-DOS, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh and many others. Battle Chess is a chess game created by Interplay initially for the Amiga and published in 1988.

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