As far as National Lampoon was concerned in the '90s, no game had more potential for fun and frolics than chess.
wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, a sexier take on the game of kings that stops somewhat short of descending into hardcore pawn.
People are still making this kind of game today, up to and including the porny Love Chess, which promises"an exciting combination of sex and chess" in post-apocalyptic wasteland and Egyptian flavours. Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1 pretended to land somewhere in the middle, shamelessly ripping off Battle Chess in"Bawdy" style, though in fact without much bawdiness, as well as parodying the long-running Chessmaster series that was up to Chessmaster 5000 at the time.
I can say that Chess Maniac is apparently immune to Kasparov's"Sod It" gambit, based on throwing units cack-handedly into the meat grinder in the hope that it will be seen as unpredictable and persuade the opponent to just give up rather than mentally process the stupidity. So that's a point against it.As a parody though, it starts early, in the manual, by promising customer support on America Online. Hilarious! You're also warned outright"So, you bought the ad copy.
Difficulties for instance range from"Beginner's Luck" to"Tie Me Up And Whip Me", along with the option to play Strip Chess instead. This being a PC game from 1996 though, you can probably guess the result of that one...
It does at least look quite good though, for the time, with digitised sprites and all the custom animations you'd expect. In fact, more.
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