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Battle Chess (1988)

Interplay

3DO Interactive Multiplayer · Acorn Archimedes · Amiga · Amiga CD32 · Apple II · Apple IIGS · Atari ST/STE · Commodore C64/128/MAX · Commodore CDTV · DOS · FM Towns · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PC-9800 Series · Sharp X68000

3.17 from 108 ratings

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Battle Chess was developed by Interplay as their first project after severing ties with Electronic Arts. They designed it for the Amiga in 1988, and it was released on the majority of the other systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s as well. It was widely successful, and resulted in two follow-ups, many copy-cat games, and a remake for … Read more
Battle Chess was developed by Interplay as their first project after severing ties with Electronic Arts. They designed it for the Amiga in 1988, and it was released on the majority of the other systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s as well. It was widely successful, and resulted in two follow-ups, many copy-cat games, and a remake for Steam on PC. The only significant criticism the game received was the weak chess AI, as it was not until the mid 1990s that chess ai began to consistently win against strong opponents. Read less
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Developers
Interplay
Publishers
Dice Multi Media Europe, Electronic Arts, Fujitsu Interactive, GameTap Entertainment, Krisalis Software, Pack-In-Video
Genres
Card & Board Game, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes
Fantasy, Historical
Series
Battle Chess
Steam
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Release dates

  • Oct 1988 (North_America) Amiga
  • Q4 1988 (Europe) Amiga
  • Jan 1989 (North_America) DOS
  • Jun 1989 (North_America) Atari ST/STE
  • Q3 1989 (Europe) Atari ST/STE
  • Oct 1989 (North_America) Apple IIGS
  • Nov 1989 (North_America) Commodore C64/128/MAX
  • Dec 10, 1989 (Japan) Sharp X68000
  • Q4 1989 (Europe) Commodore C64/128/MAX
  • Jun 21, 1990 (Japan) PC-9800 Series
  • 1990 (North_America) Apple II
  • 1990 (Europe) FM Towns
  • Sep 01, 1991 (Japan) FM Towns
  • 1991 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • 1992 (North_America) Commodore CDTV
  • 1993 (Europe) Acorn Archimedes, DOS
  • Sep 16, 1994 (Full Release) (Japan) 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
  • Sep 16, 1994 (Full Release) (North_America) 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
  • 1994 (Full Release) (Europe) 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
  • 1994 (Europe) Amiga CD32
  • Apr 20, 2017 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)

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Rating distribution

5 stars
7
4 stars
32
3 stars
47
2 stars
14
1 star
7
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RavenLegion

Review RavenLegion 1/5 · Nov 29, 2023

Epic Slowness

like the retro look and the pieces coming alive battling each other is nice but its far far too slow, like painfully kill me kind of slow, its so slow i have yet to finish a game and probably never will.

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