Chess Game_ The
Alternative title: Chess Chiller , Nightwalker
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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You are a huge fan of the game of chess and as usual you have fallen asleep with your board and pieces, dreaming of the game, but sadly one of your dreams has turned into a nightmare. You are at the edge of a giant chess board viewed on a single screen at an elevated angle with a baying crowd on either side and you have found out that you must carry six Pawns, one at a time across the board while avoiding one of the major pieces and it's traps. Your first piece you must face is the Knight moving three squares at a time, and as you attempt to carry the Pawns across you leave behind a trail of blue squares. If the knight lands on a blue square then he turns it red and that square must be avoided. 

Once you reach the other side of the board then you must return back to get another Pawn piece. If you touch the Knight or a red square then you lose the Pawn you are carrying and have to get another one. The crowd occasionally throws an object on to the board turning a square red. Once you have got all the Pawns you have remaining across then it is now time to face a Bishop. the Bishop moves diagonally across the board while all the black squares turn to blue, green then red. You cannot touch a square while it is red but the white squares don't turn colour and are safe to stand on. Once all the Pawns you have are taken across the board then you face the other major pieces like the Rook, Queen and finally the King, each with their own unique challenges. Once you have lost all the Pawns then it is game over.

Trivia

Night Walker

A re-release version was reviewed by Zzap! (Issue 17, Sep 86, p108) called Night Walker in 1986 but the whereabouts of this version is yet to be found.

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(Zzap! Magazine review) :

Night Walker / The Chess Game is a 3D game played on a chess board. You control a girly (Penn?) character who, in repentance for some ghastly and unnamed sin, has been assigned the task of safely escorting five pawns across rite board. Being a pawn courier may sound easy, but of course it isn't, because the task has been transformed into a full-blooded spectator sport, and the blood they're after is yours. Eeek! 

The display is of a huge chess board surrounded by all manner of jeering nasties, and you, poor defenceless girly character that you are, find yourself standing on the edge of the chequered arena. Then, from the shadows, a giant Knight chess piece appears. Swallowing your fearful bile as manfully as a girly character can, you make your way across the chess board holding the hand of an innocent pawn, leaving a trail of blue squares in your path. The Knight also leaps onto the board, moving around in an attempt to block your route, unhelpfully chobbling dirty great red pits in the paths you've made. As they are deep, these pits should be avoided at all costs, else you may fall in and lose one of your five pawns. 

This process continues until all five pawns have been safely transported from one side of the board to the other. If you have rescued one or more pawns, you're transported to the next screen, again played on the chess board. On this screen the black squares rapidly change colour and you must try and get the pawns across without stepping on a square while it's red. 

Following this comes a battle with a Bishop and on later stages your wits are pitted against a King and then a Queen, all the pieces moving in the directions specified by the game of chess. 

As you travel through the various screens, the game gets progressively harder with red squares appearing more and more frequently and flashing irregularly, and as the stages increase, greater numbers of pieces appear, making the task even more difficult.


http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/chess-game_
C64 magazine ZZAP!64 (street date: July 21st, 1986).
