Name that game (old PC)

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:10 am

This one should not be very to find as I believe it was pretty well known at the time, but I'll be damn if I can find it.

It's basically a Chess-like game. Well. basically it looked and played like Chess but with one major difference: The game would go into a one-on-one real time "battle mode" where in Chess you would simply "capture" the piece, favoring both traditional Chess-like strategy and Shmups-like skills.

Of course, different pieces had different values, so even a skilled player could hardly win a "pawn" vs "queen" equivalent matchup.

The game probably was release during the early-mid eighties...Any ideas?

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:11 am

Archon.
Was also ported to the NES. Probably some other systems too.

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:21 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:Archon.
Was also ported to the NES. Probably some other systems too.

Thats it. Thanks

edit: (wrong link) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_%28computer_game%29

I was wrong concerning the original system. It was first developped on the Atari 8-bit not the PC/X86s (but later ported to PCs among others)

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:10 am

Ah, the good ol' A800...

Hyos · Post by **Hyos** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:12 pm

It was later remade for DOS as Archon Ultra.

neoblaze · Post by **neoblaze** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:37 pm

battle chess! <3

Mark57Raider · Post by **Mark57Raider** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:36 pm

I remembers playing battle chess in highschool on the computer with some classmates. That was pretty fun, I'm surprised the game took less than an hour.