this was my favorite dos game growing up until my brother accidentally deleted it. I've never forgotten, and this is the first time in years of searching I found gameplay. you made my covd 2020
Same here 🤣, just saw this in a Netflix Docu and had a childhood flashback. Had absolutely forgotten about it, but now clearly remember playing it and even some of the animations. Had to find out how it was named and googled "90s animated Chess Computer Game" 🤣
I used to play this game around 2007-2010.This was one of my first games along with need for speed II SE , Wolfenstein, Mummy (2000),Mortal Kombat 4,Prince 1, Dangerous Dave 1 & 2 .
Whew, felt deja vu. Time travel, back to childhood. Some of Happyest days of life. ❤ This was true masterpiece, I wish someone would make something like this with these modern effects.
@gentilguy I wasn't actually trying to win this game, I wanted to show as many captures as possible since that's the best part of Battle Chess, see how I make my moves in a few seconds instead of thinking about them :) However, I didn't know about that, so thank you for the advice, I'll keep that in mind :)
I remember being a kid in the 90s and laughing like an idiot everytime the king got stripped lol. I also remember my shitty Tandy taking forever to animate the moves.
Wow, that was quick... lol I found out why. It's dependent on the version of the game. The 1988 version was blue and black, and the 1989 version was green and black. I have no clue where the floppy for this game is, so I had to download it from the net. I downloaded the 1989 version, apparently. I did find the 1988 version, though. I wish I could find those floppies... had some really cool games and software. Thanks anyways!
IN POP CULTURE. In the movie FX 2 from 1991 the game appears on the list of games a police officer searcher for on a disc during a house search. It's around the 32:50 movie time
Oh wow - this is what it looked like? I could have sworn that the graphics were sharp with smooth animations, isn't it crazy what your memory (in combination with imagination) does?
Omg I LOVED this game. I so wish they would make it so I could play it now. I loved killing off each of the players w all the diff pieces, since they all killed each other differently. Such an awesome game. Way beyond it’s time.
I will definitely check that out. I had searched all over for this game & no one ever knew what I was talking abt when I’d ask if they remembered it. Now to finally find it AND find out I can play it again 😍😍😍. It always made me laugh when the king would just pull a gun out and bust a cap 😂. Now 30 years later, it still cracks me up. Thank u for uploading this. Brought back so many memories ❤️👏🏻👍🏻
I'm glad that you liked it :) To be clear, dosbox is kind of an emulator of old systems, you still need to load a copy of the game into dosbox to play it, but I can't give you more directions here, I hope you can understand
Yes, I was using DosBox, but I don't really remember how many cycles I used. I remember it was extremely hard to get it to play at the right speed, though.
Same. My parents thought I was smart for teaching myself chess as a kid, when it was totally by accident while trying to see all the fun kill animations.
It's the first ever video game I played myself and really loved it. I was fascinated by the animations. When I found out about the multiplayer mode it became a passion to try and get every possible animation, the check mates being the most interesting since you could only get one per game. Amazing hours of fun !
I just heard about this in an interview with the developer (Rebecca Heineman) and thought it sounded familiar! My father showed me this when I was... 4 years old, I'd guess. :)
Loved this game as a kid. I figured he was going for captures and not the win, hence a lot of questionable moves, but Red knight to b5 (12:00) still kind of made me wince. Felt like such a good position to just walk away from! ;)
@@Pargali_Ibonun_gitarist_kuzeni Not the game scared me but when i played it, i was by my Aunt's Daughter at evening. The Game Ssound and the Sound of the old PC Tower scares me a little bit. It was not the Game it was more the atmosphere in the dark Room!
they were so loud and they sounded like were actually suffering. this is like a game for a parent, who maybe does not actually want his kids to learn chess because they are thinking how the pawns are suffering, teaches his squeamish kid to play. old school.
Started playing chess again because of The Queen's Gambit, but when I was six this game made chess seem like the coolest thing ever.
Same!
Same! And when the opponent queen moved... real chills back then
Damn Josh, same here, exactly 6 too, what year did this come out? I remember playing it in 90' or 91' for the first time
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2002-03
My father had this game installed in his computer when I was a kid. I was so bad at the game but liked to play just to watch the animations.
This, Prince Of Persia for the Apple II and Dragon Warrior were my childhood. Nostalgia aquired!
this was my favorite dos game growing up until my brother accidentally deleted it. I've never forgotten, and this is the first time in years of searching I found gameplay. you made my covd 2020
Oh those battle animations were so cool :D
I played this game more than 10 years ago. I'm happy to see it again. It reminds me of my childhood.
I played it throughout 1995-1996!
My father and I used to play this every so often when i was young. Good times
haven't thought of this in about 33 years... and here we are
Finally I found the 90s computer chess game video! Good memories!
Yes!! I f*ckin' love it when took attacks rook!! This takes me back 30 years, thanks for uploading this little piece of my childhood.
I remember being a kid playing this and thinking that the each piece had an equal chance of winning in the fight animations. 😅
You must love Fire Emblem then
feelings from the past. I'm 40. The AI was meh, but the animations were a blast
This brings back childhood memories.
This is how I got into chess actually.
I loved playing this! the animations were hilarious.
That game actually terrorized me as a kid 😅
Those freaking yelling sound effects...
I remember playing this game without a clue as to how chess is played. Just to see the homies get cut down lol
Me too
Me three
OMG AFTER YEARS I FINNALLY FOUND IT
The animation of this game is epic! The sound too!
If you play it on Steam you'll realize this game is painfully slow.
I actually learned how to play chess with this game. Great memories!
I wasn’t sure if I played this game till I saw the castle get up and walk around at 2 minutes. YUP. This for sure taught me chess.
I used to have this on my family pc back in 1991, man, the memories....
I have so many memories of playing this as a little boy, along with a ton of other games from around that time
Ahh memories . Thanks . I had this on floppy disk.
Thank you so much for bringing back good memories
Wow, i Played this in 1993, and the ski game with the bear in it, and the alley cat if imnot mistaken, everything was simpler back then
I googled "That chess game in the 90s with animations" and I was sent here. Google is awesome.
Don’t forget the Star Wars version
Same here 🤣, just saw this in a Netflix Docu and had a childhood flashback. Had absolutely forgotten about it, but now clearly remember playing it and even some of the animations. Had to find out how it was named and googled "90s animated Chess Computer Game" 🤣
I googled "old animated chess"
I googled "battle chess"
I mean morally speaking Google is very very far from awesome
When the King pulls out the Magnum .44 zapper!
That's his sceptre
@@TheInkPitOx8:54 Sceptres dont fucking shoot
I used to play this on break at school in the 90's, good times :)
My brother had this game and he made copies on diskettes. It was amazing. When the Queen did her thing. The animation was ahead of it's time.
You made me remember better times.
You drink a whisky drink and a lager drink first?
I used to play this game around 2007-2010.This was one of my first games along with need for speed II SE , Wolfenstein, Mummy (2000),Mortal Kombat 4,Prince 1, Dangerous Dave 1 & 2 .
Whew, felt deja vu. Time travel, back to childhood. Some of Happyest days of life. ❤ This was true masterpiece, I wish someone would make something like this with these modern effects.
The sound quality almost sounds like those ear rape memes every time something wacky happens.
I really miss that.. l used to play that.. during those years, it shape my Chess game.. thanks for sharing this, a real nostalgic 👍👍
@gentilguy I wasn't actually trying to win this game, I wanted to show as many captures as possible since that's the best part of Battle Chess, see how I make my moves in a few seconds instead of thinking about them :)
However, I didn't know about that, so thank you for the advice, I'll keep that in mind :)
I like the way you played it with all the best animations and pieces being removed from the game
@@shawnphillippi1128 FINALLY, someone who gets the point of this video, thanks :)
I remember being a kid in the 90s and laughing like an idiot everytime the king got stripped lol.
I also remember my shitty Tandy taking forever to animate the moves.
This is the legend chess game. It looks still good animation.
Ahhh, this is where it alll begun for me. For me, the most satisfying death was the Rook devouring the Queen.
Omg i have been looking for this game for over 15 plus years omg the memories such great game this is how I learned to play chess
shay allen I saw it at a Radio Shack, and HAD to buy it....
Sick Only wait you saw this game? This actual game at radio shack? Recently!?! dont get me hype!!
shay allen No, lol....I bought it at Radio Shack when the game first came out, in the late 80's
Oh, the nostalgia! I played this as a kid. 👌
Finally found the childhood... This was the best, I can watch this all day long... Deja Vu!
I remember playing this as a kid, good memories.
I remember when this was cutting edge. Bloody hell do I feel old.
Do you feel old and useless like I do or do you just feel old?
I always remember the rook in this game was awesome to watch, this was where I first learned chess from
4th grade memories here…The rook eating the taken space/piece was my favorite
Gosh, this travels way back!
Wow, that was quick... lol
I found out why. It's dependent on the version of the game. The 1988 version was blue and black, and the 1989 version was green and black. I have no clue where the floppy for this game is, so I had to download it from the net. I downloaded the 1989 version, apparently. I did find the 1988 version, though. I wish I could find those floppies... had some really cool games and software.
Thanks anyways!
I played this game as a kid. Loved it
I would say I want this as app but adds and microtrasactions would ruin it.
IN POP CULTURE. In the movie FX 2 from 1991 the game appears on the list of games a police officer searcher for on a disc during a house search. It's around the 32:50 movie time
Brings back my childhood.
When I was kid i use to play this game. And one time I had checkmate the computer. No one believed me but that was my happy date in history😍
I played this as a kid. I have it on Steam now. So glad I discovered it includes the much faster VGA remake.
You got the "Game of Kings" version? Because that's what I got.
THANK YOU
I've been looking for this for soooooo LONG
this game needs a remake
I agree!
Yes. I would buy it.
Played the old version quite a bit.
It does!
They have made remake
@@gianis666 What's the name?
This game was Wizard's Chess before the Harry Potter books existed...
Oh wow - this is what it looked like? I could have sworn that the graphics were sharp with smooth animations, isn't it crazy what your memory (in combination with imagination) does?
Thanks for posting. Great memories
Thank you for watching!
I remember playing this as a kid! Had a lot of fun. Good memories
Omg I LOVED this game. I so wish they would make it so I could play it now. I loved killing off each of the players w all the diff pieces, since they all killed each other differently. Such an awesome game. Way beyond it’s time.
You can play it now, just look for dosbox :)
I will definitely check that out. I had searched all over for this game & no one ever knew what I was talking abt when I’d ask if they remembered it. Now to finally find it AND find out I can play it again 😍😍😍. It always made me laugh when the king would just pull a gun out and bust a cap 😂. Now 30 years later, it still cracks me up. Thank u for uploading this. Brought back so many memories ❤️👏🏻👍🏻
I'm glad that you liked it :)
To be clear, dosbox is kind of an emulator of old systems, you still need to load a copy of the game into dosbox to play it, but I can't give you more directions here, I hope you can understand
Holy shit! I still remember some of the fighting aninimations... I haven't seen this game in 18 years!
Me too, it was amaizing when i was a kid
Yes, I was using DosBox, but I don't really remember how many cycles I used. I remember it was extremely hard to get it to play at the right speed, though.
Any better now?
What do you mean?
this is my childhood. this brings back good memories.
Trip down the memory lane. Awesome!
The most beautiful fight is missing: horse against horse!
Such nice memories! I never forgot the rook in this game. Thanks for sharing :D
I played it so many times just for the death fights
Same. My parents thought I was smart for teaching myself chess as a kid, when it was totally by accident while trying to see all the fun kill animations.
Same here & this game is so Excellent & Awesome
Lots of sweet childhood memories with this game💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Man this brings back some memories!
I was 13 and played this game in monochrome monitor.
I used to play this in elementary school.
Had this on our old pc back in the early 90’s. Shame no IOS has replicated.
0:25 lol i was sleepy then the sound came in
@20:00 anyone else wish there was better animation for the pawn promotion?
It's the first ever video game I played myself and really loved it. I was fascinated by the animations. When I found out about the multiplayer mode it became a passion to try and get every possible animation, the check mates being the most interesting since you could only get one per game. Amazing hours of fun !
I love this game! I used to play it all the time when I was a kid.
That knight just severed the bishop's head.. Brutal!
Omg I vaguely remember this. The death scenes gave me a bit of a nightmare.
haha, same. as a kid this was very intimitating...
Best game ever..loved playing this
Everybody is gangstar until 8:53
I actually played this so long ago...
I just heard about this in an interview with the developer (Rebecca Heineman) and thought it sounded familiar! My father showed me this when I was... 4 years old, I'd guess. :)
Yeah kids, this is not a x0.5 speed video.
This was the actual game speed back in my childhood
lol i looked up checker and chess games back in the day but only found a couple basic ones
Death screams sure were scary...
Wow that really takes me back
same bruh
best chess game ever
Loved this game as a kid. I figured he was going for captures and not the win, hence a lot of questionable moves, but Red knight to b5 (12:00) still kind of made me wince. Felt like such a good position to just walk away from! ;)
Loved the Battle Moves, Great early game on IBM/PC.
Wer ist auch wegen der 18. Harry Podcast Folge von Coldmirror hier? 😂
Ich. Frohe Weihnachten
@@borikidor Hi, dir auch! Danke dir! 😊
Hallo😂😂 ich find dir Idee mega und hab überlegt ob man des irgendwo kaufen kann deswegen bin ich hier😂😂
Aber die Königinen bei 4:48 umarmen sich gar nicht 😂
Die idee ist doch nicht neu
When I was 9, my father has shown me this PC Game.
This game scared me when I was little.
@@Pargali_Ibonun_gitarist_kuzeni Not the game scared me but when i played it, i was by my Aunt's Daughter at evening. The Game Ssound and the Sound of the old PC Tower scares me a little bit. It was not the Game it was more the atmosphere in the dark Room!
brings back memories playing this game with my dad on cpu this is how i learned how to play chess
Haha i miss this game so much, the action sequences are awesome, but for some reason the queen terrified me back then
"Lots of Queens, lots of Queens. Yeah, I'm a really good driver".
Damn i miss this...
The sounds back then made me get scared of this
they were so loud and they sounded like were actually suffering. this is like a game for a parent, who maybe does not actually want his kids to learn chess because they are thinking how the pawns are suffering, teaches his squeamish kid to play.
old school.
Oh my god. What are these sounds effects?
I remember playing this without sound cause I had no soundboard on my pc at the time
@@benjamincastillo3067 These sound effect could be played in the pc speaker. Did you know that?
Why don't we have an awesome chess game like this with modern graphics!?
there is one with high quality graphics
@@cocvava-jp7nzname?
Name?
Daaaamn , i was 7-8 at that time
The 80s FATALITY !!!
Jacopo Cevenini Lmfaoo I bet mortal Kombat got their inspiration from here haha
nostalgia trip
The sound effects 😂😂😂😂
What about those?
@@sulosky are funny 😂
Super primitive. It might have sounded better on more advanced systems. 🤔