Battle Chess checking in to PC, iOS - get pawned this summer

Which one is Ronald Weasley?

YES! Now just finally announce Syndicate and it'll be 1993 all over again.

Sweet!!

Obviously, this will have multiplayer on iOS....?

Does anyone remember the original Battle Chess? Anyone remember how brutally violent and ridiculous some of the animations were? I keep hoping with these newer versions they'll bring some of that back, but I'm guessing they want it more family friendly.

Remember MK Chess? Man that was awesome.

word i'm getting this on my iPad

The original Battle Chess was cool, and I was just thinking about it the other day for some reason, wondering why it wasn't available for any system anymore. Seems like a no-brainer to keep around.

And speaking of Battle Chess, it's too bad they don't consider re-releasing Archon The Light and the Dark.

You just got 'pawned

Man I used to play the original along with Prince of Persia and Ringworld, will defintely pick this up just for chilhood memories sake.

Oh man... Used to run this on the old Aptiva 386, back in the day... SO much fun...

oh man i loved this game so much.

Queen is overpowered.

Yes! I loved the first one so much. Pretty much the first ever PC game I played and the over the top animations were classic. Didn't the knight do a Monty Python-esque Holy Grail thing when his limbs were chopped off?? Definitely getting this.

I'm hoping they make it as funny as they can. I'd be completely in love with just a HD port of the original I could play on my iPad ... played a ton of this on my 286 when I was a kid and these screens look a little too stodgy and realistic. I can remember a lot of the fights, and I'm disappointed the rook isn't a transforming castle monster that can stomp the pawns into a football. Guys, if you are reading this, show some nostalgia and we will worship you. That bishop looks way too serious to me and the king doesn't look like he's going to have the humor either.

I also should say that BattleChess 4000 was also hilarious. The attempts at realistic BC -- the one that came on the interplay box set -- wasn't very good. The pawns were hilarious, and they had some really good animations in BC4000 -- like the Rook and the little pawn aliens that made the slurpy noises.

Those slurpy noises were awesome.

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Battle vs. Chess...I want you in my life! *sobs*

Haha, I loved the original game on the good old Amiga 500 about... 20 years ago?
But I'm a little older now, and the games market has grown a little bit since then. So I'm not that thrilled about the rerelease of the game...

It says PC, but I wonder if that means they're doing a Mac version. I have many childhood memories playing the black and white Battle Chess on my school lab's Macintoshes back in the day... good times.

If it's on iOS, it should be a short stretch to bring to OSX, since they're both based on similar Unix kernels and OpenGL 3D.