Board Game / Board Game - Chess · 1979

Video Chess

Published by Atari

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Information

Genre: Board Game - Chess
Controls: Joystick
Players: 1, 1 vs. 2
Programmer(s): Wagner, Larry, Whitehead, Bob
Format: NTSC
Year: 1979
Publisher: Atari
Country: USA
Medium: Cartridge
Serial: CX2645

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Additional Comments

Video Chess is the game that led Atari to first invent bank-switched ROMs for the Atari 2600, even though the shipping version of the game wouldn't use the technique and was only 4K in size.

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Instructions (8)

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Stickers (1)

Video Chess

Comments (1)

Geoman — 10 Sept 2011
You could easily fool the program into "Fool's Mate" in all levels.