Battle Chess Bundle (Jewel Case) |  | From: Interplay
Buy New: $8.98
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Seller: Byte Slaves
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 7481
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Genre: Action Video Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Jewel Case
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 5.6 x 0.4
Model: FG-C95-1274-1
UPC: 040421010899
EAN: 0040421010899
ASIN: B00005A9WS
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 3D Animation and Stereo voices. | | • | Ten Levels of Play. | | • | Bone-Crushing Battle Sound Effects. |
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Product Description
Battle Chess - enhanced CD-ROM & The original Classic. Sharpen your lance and prepare your knights for the challenge of a lifetime. Battle Chess on CD-ROM combines bone-crunching sound effects, 3D animation and stereo voices that will bring your chess pieces to life. With ten levels of play and a whopping 33 megabytes of Super VGA graphics, it's a spectacular chess game. This classic will definitely test your savvy. It's a terrific way to teach novices and challenge even the most advanced player.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 Needs Availability for More Platforms December 12, 2009
Gary Galasso
A great old game. Needs to be made for newer platforms (e.g. Playstation II, III, WII, etc)
fond memories July 14, 2009
Andrew W. Kaiser
This edition of battle chess brings back memories of the earlier game i played on my old Tandy computer wuth my kids. The animation and sound is tons better, the battle scenes need to be a bit longer and have more action.
 Thanks Starlady! November 3, 2006
Mad L (Pasadena, CA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
"The new version however is violent and sleezy. The pieces graphically beat each other up and the queen struts like a hooker across the board. At one point when the red king challenged the blue queen, they grabbed each other in a passionate kiss, and she pulled a knife on him. He promptly swore and killed her."
You sold me!!! Oh Ya!! I love the violence, the sleeze, just the ticket to jazz up a boaring game of chess!
Yup, I've had Battle Chess since the old Win3.1 daze, but I really wish they would update it to today's standards. Improve the graphics, and like one of the others stated 'add some drama to the battles', perhaps even add an adult 'R' level (lets put some real sleeze into that slut Queen!!)
 Really Bad!!!!! May 17, 2005
StarLady (Rigby, ID United States)
20 out of 25 found this review helpful
I taught my kids how to play chess on this game when we had an old Commadore computer a few years back. It was really kid freindly back then with pawns jousting and some of the captured pieces being turned into toads. Kids and adults couldn't get enough of it.
I bought the new version hoping to let my youngest six year old have the same experiance (it is rated for six and up). The new version however is violent and sleezy. The pieces graphically beat each other up and the queen struts like a hooker across the board. At one point when the red king challenged the blue queen, they grabbed each other in a passionate kiss, and she pulled a knife on him. He promptly swore and killed her. Just what you want your child to see and learn.
At the novice level it never makes a mistake, unlike as if playing with another beginner. This makes it so that she has no chance of winning, which can be really discouraging to someone new to the game.
The angle of the board makes it difficult to determine which square the players are on, and at one point it wouldn't even allow a legitimate move on our part.
They have taken all the fun out of this game, it was a useless purchase.
 THIS IS FOR XP USERS!!!! BUY IT!!!!! April 1, 2005
R. Breier (The land time forgot.)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Okay, the Battle chess collection does have two more games than this bundle but the bottom line is that it only works if you have Windows 95/98 and DOS 3.1 or higher. For those of us who do not possess outdated computers but long for these classic games should get this bundle. I had the collection, but could not get it to work. I then bought this bundle for only $6.15! (and the price just seems to be getting better. When I popped it into my computer, I was delighted to finally play battle chess and battle chess II. The only problem is that the sound for Chinese Chess comes from the PC's internal speakers (really, this isn't a problem, as it sounds basically the same for this game). So if you have an old computer with Windows 95-8 and DOS, then by all means, buy the collection, but if you have an XP, this will work (I don't think it works on 2000 or Me). Hope this helps.
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