This was a classic. As kids we discovered that if a pawn took the king, he’d drop his robe, get caught bare naked for a split second, then scramble to cover up. Absolute, pixelated humiliation.
Battle Chess was a brilliant 1988 game by Interplay Entertainment that revolutionized chess gaming. Pieces animate vividly on the board, exploding into hilarious, brutal combat sequences during captures. So, instead of the (many) rather dry and standard chess games that existed, Battle Chess took the more playful path. For a while, I tried all the different battle animations, sacrificing pieces <insert evil laugh here>, just to see how they would perish.
All jokes aside, it got me into chess more than anything else. Did you play it back in the day?
@Austen Biggest unlock is screwing a power strip to the underside of the desk, then you have one cable coming out of the desk and everything else plugged in close to the cable management.