Battle Chess (NES) Playthrough

A playthrough of Data East's 1990 chess game for the NES, Battle Chess. When Interplay put out Battle Chess for the Amiga in 1988, the game immediately came to be regarded as a fancy showcase for the computer's advanced graphics and sound capabilities - a new defender of the [multimedia] crown, if you will. The concept is simple: it's chess injected with a healthy dose of gratuitous violence in order to maximize its appeal and sales. When a piece is captured, an animated depiction of its fate ...