Battle Chess

Chess was a niche genre in video gaming. There were lots of chess simulations: black and white very old games, licensed games from chess champions, etc. No one ever attempted to broaden the audience until Interplay published Battle Chess. Battle Chess appeal was almost entirely focused on the animations when two pieces ended on the same square.

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A sequel titled Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess was released in 1991, based on xiangqi, commonly known as "Chinese chess". The next year's Battle Chess 4000 spoofed science fiction movies and television series and used a clay animation art style similar to ClayFighter.

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Awards won by Battle Chess:

1989 - Best Graphics Achievement in a Non-Graphics Product, CODiE Awards.

Input: keyboard, mouse, joystick

Distributed on: 3,5 floppy disk, 5,25 floppy disk

Also published for: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, CDTV, C64, Macintosh, NES, PC-98, Sharp X68000, Windows 3.x

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