Star Wars Chess

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38K plays 1993 #Puzzle

Star Wars Chess is a 1993 chess video game developed by The Software Toolworks, based on the Star Wars film franchise and published by Mindscape for MS-DOS, Sega CD, and Windows 3.x. A 3DO version was planned but never released.

From Wikipedia's article Star Wars Chess, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

Star Wars ChessDOS

3.0 Good job

Players 71 · 163 votes

No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.

What the reviews talk about

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What the critics said

  • Computer Gaming World concluded that T2 Chess Wars and Star Wars Chess "are examples of marketing at its best (or worst, depending on your point of view)".

    — Computer Gaming World, 1994

  • Mega Magazine giving Star Wars Chess a 60 percent rating stating "The chances are that if you take your chess at all seriously, you wouldn't really enjoy this."

    — Mega, 1994

  • In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Star Wars Chess the 49th-worst computer game ever released stating: "Proof that there really is no intelligent life (or AI) even in a galaxy far, far away".

    — Computer Gaming World, 1996

  • GamePro magazine however praised the game's action scenes, sound, detailed animation and stating "Chess purists and Star Wars purists alike will enjoy this one. Most impressive!"

    — GamePro, 1994

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Star Wars Chess article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Full reviews

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  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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