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Star Wars Chess (Video Game)
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It is a time of great competition in the Galaxy. An uneasy state of peace has been established between the weakened forces of the Galactic Empire and the growing Rebel Alliance. During this uncertain period of truce, the old adversaries settle their differences through the ancient, eternal game of CHESS. With their greatest heroes as champions, the Empire and the Rebel Alliance fight battles of the mind. It is a new kind of warfare. One that will decide the fate of planets, civilizations and the future...Star Wars Chess is an adaptation of Chess based on Star Wars, released for the MS-DOS, Sega CD, and Windows 3.x in 1993 by The Software Toolworks.The game is very similar to Battle Chess, in that it takes an ordinary chess program and spices it up with animated pieces and battle animations whenever a piece is captured. However, naturally, the pieces are all represented by different characters from the original Star Wars trilogy. | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
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Your Head Asplode: When Yoda captures a Stormtrooper, he uses a Jedi Mind Trick to force the Stormtrooper to shoot themselves in the face, blowing their head clean off. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: There are two, depending on which side wins the game. If the Rebels win, you get a scene of the Death Star exploding. If the Empire wins, you get a more ominous ending depicting the Death Star surrounded by TIE Fighters, as Darth Vader says "Now you know the power of the dark side." | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Han Solo appears frozen in carbonite in the background of the computer versions. The Sega CD version omits this. | |
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Playing with Fire | |
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Playing with Fire: Some of Boba Fett's winning animations have him use his jet pack as a flamethrower. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: A New Hope farmboy Luke wields his green lightsaber from Return of the Jedi. | |
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Catch and Return | |
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Catch and Return: How Yoda defeats the Emperor. | |
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No Body Left Behind | |
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No Body Left Behind: All Force users, from Yoda to Luke to Vader to the Emperor, generally "become one with the Force" when they are defeated. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: C-3PO. Not only does he get most of the more humiliating defeats when he's captured, but even the battles where he wins have him bumbling his way to victory, and getting hurt a lot in the process. | |
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Shock and Awe | |
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Shock and Awe: The Emperor uses Force lightning in all of the battle animations featuring him. If R2-D2 captures a Tusken Raider, he takes hold of the Raider's weapon and electrocutes it, absolutely frying them. | |
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Man on Fire | |
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Man on Fire: If Yoda captures Boba Fett, he forces poor Boba's jetpack to malfunction, setting the bounty hunter aflame until he crashes spectacularly. | |
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Adaptational Badass | |
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Adaptational Badass: R2-D2. While he's a Non-Action Guy in the movies, in this game, he can go toe-to-toe with the villainous members of the Empire and win, and some of the battle sequences where he wins are surprisingly brutal. | |
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In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It | |
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In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Most versions of the game present The Software Toolworks' Star Wars Chess on the title screen and packaging, with the company name in the same font and size as the rest of the title. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: A few of the battle animations have this. When Luke captures a Tusken Raider, Luke cuts the Raider's head off with his lightsaber. The body then subsequently gets pulled into a spontaneously appearing Sarlacc pit. If Boba Fett captures C-3PO, he backhands 3-PO in the face, causing his head to come unscrewed. | |
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Your Size May Vary | |
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Your Size May Vary: To fit to scale with the other characters, the AT-ST walkers are drastically shrunk down to being the same size as the other characters. | |
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Cane Fu | |
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Cane Fu: Yoda uses this in place of a lightsaber. | |
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Ring Out | |
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Ring Out: Chewbacca defeats the Emperor by throwing him off the board. Yoda also uses the Force to throw the Tusken Raider out of the board as well. | |
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Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels | |
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Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: The difficulty levels for the AI players are represented by portraits of the various characters in the game. From easiest to hardest, we have Chewbacca, C-3PO, Yoda, and Luke for the Rebel side, and a Stormtrooper, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and the Emperor for the Empire side. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death: The battle animations include characters getting electrocuted, set on fire, shot in the heart, beaten to death, graphically exploding, or having limbs torn off. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Downplayed. Luke beheads a Tusken Raider, whilst he gives a Stormtrooper a comparatively tame slash to the torso. | |
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Reduced to Dust | |
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Reduced to Dust: Befalls a Tusken Raider who is electrocuted by R2-D2 and Chewbacca both by Boba Fett's flamethrower and the Emperor's force lightning. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Naturally, most of the Stormtrooper's losing animations have them take shots at the Rebels and miss. | |
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Adaptational Jerkass | |
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Adaptational Jerkass: Jedi Master Yoda uses the Force to make a Stormtrooper shoot themself rather than say, deflect their firepower. | |
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No-Sell | |
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No-Sell: The Emperor's force lightning falls victim to this in all his defeat animations; some are more believable than others. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Many animations involving C-3PO have him losing limbs. This can happen regardless of whether or not he's on the winning side. When he captures a Stormtrooper, his hand gets shot off before he wins. When he captures Darth Vader, His whole arm gets cut off by Vader's lightsaber. He then proceeds to pick up his arm, clash it with the lightsaber, and somehow deactivate it, allowing him to club Vader with his arm. If Vader is on the winning side, however, 3PO isn't quite so lucky. That's right, 'tis but a scratch. | |
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Bullet Catch | |
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Bullet Catch: Yoda does this with the blasters of an AT-ST. | |
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Opening Scroll | |
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Opening Scroll: The game starts with one, in typical Star Wars fashion. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: If R2-D2 captures Darth Vader, he defeats him by stealing Vader's lightsaber out of his hands, and turning it on him. | |
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Adaptational Wimp | |
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Adaptational Wimp: Zigzagged with Luke and the Emperor. While the battle sequences involving both depict them as being just as powerful as would be expected from them, during gameplay, they are used to represent the King and are therefore not particularly useful for capturing other pieces. | |
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Artistic License – Chess | |
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Artistic License – Chess: When you promote a pawn it automatically promotes to a queen - you do not get the standard choice of queen, rook, knight or bishop. | |
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Me's a Crowd | |
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Me's a Crowd: This is how Yoda defeats Darth Vader. | |
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