#Battle Chess

[centralbunnyunit]

#i want to go back #retro #hardware #retro tech #toshiba #t3100/20 #monochrome #battle chess #dos #vintage gaming #vintage computing

[retrocgads]

USA 1990

#USA1990 #INTERPLAY #DATA EAST #BEAM SOFTWARE #STRATEGY #CHESS #NES #IBM #AMIGA #ATARIst #C64 #APPLE #MACINTOSH #ARCHIMEDES #PC 98 #AMIGA CD32 #X68000 #CDTV #BATTLE CHESS

[videogamequeens]

#battle chess #queen #the queen #chess queen #happy mother's day

[askseriousrainbow]

We're almost to the top 10 with numbers 20-11 today! It's been fun getting these screenshots.

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20. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Okay, we all know the jokes about how Todd keeps releasing Skyrim, but there's a good reason. Skyrim is a fantastic game that is a refinement of what makes the Elder Scrolls a fun game. The dragon shouts are also an interesting addition, that let you do all sorts of things.

19. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

The Ace Attorney games are great and they all started with this trilogy. The writing is clever, the puzzles are mind-challenging, the interrogations are well thought out, and it's fun to just get into. This game has heart, and fantastic music, and it's quite a ride.

18. Burnout Paradise

Burnout Paradise is a great racer with a killer soundtrack, with multiple modes to play through, such as Stunt Run, Marked Man, Road Rage, and just normal races. The multiplayer is fantastic as well as it has modes such as Cops & Robbers. They really nailed it with this one.

17. Papers, Please

Everyone's favorite dystopian document thriller, Papers, Please takes the mundane task of stamping people's passports and makes it a engaging game with interesting, sympathetic characters, and a story that can go multiple ways. Cobrastan is not a real country.

16. Battle Chess

Chess is boring, right? Not with Battle Chess, what with its multiple animations of the “pieces” attacking each other. It's a surprisingly well-balanced chess game that can be hard to master, but when you do, it's just so satisfying.

15. Celeste

A neat little puzzle-platformer that's all about facing your fears. The story is great, and the gameplay is really good. To say anything else would probably be spoilers, so I'm not going to go any deeper, because this is one you should experience yourself.

14. Sam & Max Hit The Road

The Freelance Police's first video game outing is one of the best adventure games of all time and highly enjoyable just for the jokes. The story is fantastic and the mini-games are varied. A great time to be had for sure.

13. Serious Sam First Encounter/Second Encounter

Oh, yeah, the original pair of Serious Sam games are great, technically two parts of the same game as you can play First Encounter HD in Second Encounter HD, as well as being able to play both in Classics Revolution, and just a fantastic shooter for fans of the shooter genre. If you've never played the Serious Sam games, start here.

12. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

I love the Mass Effect series, so of course I had to put it on my Top 100. The carefully crafted (for the most part) story is fantastic, and it encourages you to play your way, either as a Paragon or a Renegade. (I'm usually Paragon myself.) The characters are great, the missions entertaining, just all in all a great series.

11. Quake

I cannot stress how important Quake is for gaming. A lot of 3D engines may still have some code left over from Quake. Deathmatch was codified by this game. Without Quake, there's no Half-Life, no Team Fortress, no Counter-Strike. It may be all brown (and blue), but it wouldn't feel like Quake if it wasn't run down.

TOP TEN TOMORROW!!! :D

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#Ask Serious Rainbow #AskSeriousRainbow #Top 100 #The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim #Skyrim #Phoenix Wright #Burnout Paradise #Papers Please #Battle Chess #Celeste #Sam & Max Hit The Road #Serious Sam #Mass Effect #Quake

[appealingtonobody]

#graphic design #Title Screen Tuesday #battle chess

[kizzer55555]

DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter. 

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge. 

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game. 

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely). 

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

#DPxDC #dcxdp #Danny makes a card game to save the world. #Technically he worded the ritual so that they had to ‘beat’ him as those are the most powerful barriers and most reliable. #keys can just get lost or stolen (like the one to Pariah’s Coffin) #A riddle would be useless once someone figured out the answer. Like how no one takes the sphynx seriously anymore. #(Sorry Tuck. But it’s true). #And there is NO WAY Danny is just leaving a hole open for anyone to pass through. No thank you! #So…beating him. But it’s not like Danny wanted to fight so…he edited the ritual a TINY bit. Card games are good. Much less painful too. #Danny Tucker and Sam made the most complicated card game they could imagine. #It’s based on their strategies for fighting ghosts. Capturing them in thermoses. And MUCH based on a on field battle strategy. #It often requires spontaneous thinking on the spot. So Danny? In his ELEMNT. It doubles as practice for his actual ghost battles too. #They had SO much fun making this. #Sam added an entire series of plant cards that act as traps and healing ointments and duds that just take up the field. #Tucker added legitimate hyroglyphics combined with Latin as well as English and ghost speak. #Yes. You actually have to speak that language to play. With proper pronunciation. (Amity Parker’s think the three are talking gibberish.) #I headcanon Sam and Tucker are fluent in Ghost. #Constantine WILL figure this game out SO HELP HIM! #Some of the cards also have combinations related to constellations either in name or placement on the board. #By the way the board is based on a Hexagonal summoning circle with Rhunes along the edges #And the placement of the cards on the board and on what rhune MATTERS. #Also the cards move disintegrate and have certain abilities. Think of Harry Potter Wizard Chess. #But they are normal when Danny plays at school. This is just for ✨effect✨ Against invaders. #Danny faces multiple opponents. He also halts alien invasions. #While Danny COULD stop crime on earth he’s not sure how to fight a normal human and hold back so he sticks to ghosts. #The Justice league are going crazy trying to figure out who this entity is and after deep research are convinced this is some sort of #Ancient being who has protected earth for millenia. They have paintings on ruins and everything. #Danny is not aware they think this. #Raven starts praying to Danny as if he is a god and wrangles the other Teen Titans into doing so as well. Danny is still unaware of this. #Danny is not a King or an ancient. Just a very VERY strong ghost.

[turtleblogatlast]

Man “Battle Nexus: New York” was a great episode but I do have one major gripe with it.

Like. Raph being paired up with Ghostbear? Makes sense. Works great. Works amazing, even.

Mikey being paired up with Meatsweats? Yeah that checks out!!

Donnie getting…Hypno…? I mean. I guess Donnie doesn’t like magic so it kindaaa works but Kendra would have been a much better choice to me personally. Maybe Big Mama didn’t wanna include a human or something…

And Leo getting…uh…one of the Sando Brothers???? Of all villains? Nah let’s be real, his main villain is more Big Mama herself (or Leo could be considered his own worst enemy lmao-). Hell Hypno would have probably worked better here considering their shared love for magic tricks and stuff, but Carl Sando????

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #battle nexus: new york #nah this will always be baffling to me #like no joke big mama really is Leo’s main villain so it makes sense that she’s not paired with him #given that she’s running this all #but giving him ONE of the Sando brothers?? not even both??? #outrageous #hypno or even warren would have been better here tbh #at least there’s some basis there for both and either option would have been so fun #not that what we got WASNT fun it def was but the sando bro was the weak link because no one cares about him #and I would have killed for a Donnie Kendra forced team up 😭 #Donnie also could have worked with Stockboy ig or hell even Repo tbh? #but Kendra is the much more interesting and fitting choice here for him imo #honestly though this post was made because I do NOT understand the choice of CARL SANDO #both of them together are forgettable enough #separating them gets rid of the one thing they even had #I remember watching and being like who tf is that #he’s got some funny moments but man anyone would have been better 😭 #going back to Kendra and Donnie because I LOVE their dynamic #the result of their team up could have ended exactly the same as canon #only instead of Kendra not knowing chess it’s instead her and Donnie arguing about what the right move would be #and they never actually make a move because of it

[lightandfellowship]

[Image description: Digital KHDR fanart depicting the upperclassmen as chess pieces. At the very bottom of the image are four chess pieces representing Hoder, Heimdall, Sigrun, and Helgi. They are upside down and silhouetted in black against a white background. Above them are two rows of black and white squares forming a chess board pattern. Above that are three pedestals holding up Vali, Vidar, and Vala's chess pieces, with Vidar's piece resting on the tallest pedestal in the middle. Both the chess pieces and the pedestals are silhouetted in white against a black background. Above them is a white heart with Baldr's hand silhouetted in black inside of it. He holds the iconic Kingdom Hearts crown in-between his index finger and thumb, posed to place it on Vidar's chess piece. End image description.]

"I paved a path for him to succeed, if he had only followed it to the end."

#khdr #kingdom hearts dark road #kingdom hearts #kh baldr #kh vidar #making kh art #So to explain the concept: at the end of the game before the final battle Baldr gives a speech where he uses a chess metaphor throughout #And when talking about Vidar in the above quote it brought to mind a chess piece being moved on a set path #from one side of the board to the other. And upon reaching the end getting 'promoted' to a better piece #In the case of checkers: getting crowned as a King. In chess: a Queen or other piece. #Baldr's goal was to get Vidar to summon Kingdom Hearts. And in a way become a 'king'. #Baldr 'captures' the pieces of the upperclassmen and clears the way for Vidar (thus why the bottom pieces are silhouetted black) #Vidar's path is paved with the deaths of his friends #Vali and Vala are of course at Vidar's side but it is Vidar who Baldr is targeting with his manipulation and schemes #khdr spoilers

[cheekywithcullen]

just saw a billboard that said "smokey bear is within us all" and my poisoned brain immediately went

#cheekychats #all secondhand knowledge from my mutuals #i got the game during early release and stopped playing after dying 5 times during an early battle #what is this ...CHESS??? #bg3

[gracelyngrausamkeit]

Arranging the chess board really does feel like setting up two battle camps. When you think about it, it is quite amazing that this classic board game will always find a way to people's tables, despite the overabundance of new board games. It will definitely always find its way to our table, at least, that's for sure.

#art #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital art #chess #camp #battle camp #board games #hills #chess pieces #original art

[spotsupstuff]

the Eo group, except all meme'd to help me chillax for once

#rain world #rw #oc tag #rain world oc #iterator oc #rw ancients #oc: boreas' blessing #oc: inhale in haboob #oc: biting notos #oc: fish inside a birdcage #oc: orion's pathway #oc: caper of euros #oc: three sparrows #philosophy sessions au #my art #euros is tots the kind of person to challenge a baby to a chess battle n then lose

[firstroseofspring]

looking into reading the final reflection because it's cited as a big influence on the depiction of klingons in star trek from tng onward for looking past the warrior stereotype and fleshes them out really well and look at this.

#diary #YEAHHH im reading that. #the book also talks about a game that klingons play called klin zha and it sounds interesting- the background i think is that there's a lot #of battle-related games in klingon culture #and in klin zha theres two players (sort of chess-adjacent) taking turns paying with the same set of pieces. #of course this was written in the 80s so now klingons crying is canon cause of that one myth about kahless crying a whole ocean <- slay #but isnt that good isnt that so cool. <- nerd

[retrocgads]

UK 1991

#UK1991 #PC REVIEW #BOOKS #IBM #TALES OF THE UNKNOWN VOLUME I THE BARD'S TALE #PGA TOUR GOLF #BATTLE CHESS #POPULOUS #CHUCK YEAGER'S AIR COMBAT #MARIO ANDRETTI'S RACING CHALLENGE

[aesthetic--mood]

Edmund Pevensie Aesthetic

#edmund pevensie #king edmund the just #edmund the just #king #king of narnia #sword #warrior #cair paravel #battle #lamp post #chess #the pevensies #pevensie family #stone table #magic wand #magic word #jadis the white witch #wardrobe #mr tumnus #narnia #the chronicles of narnia #c.s. lewis #books #movies #aesthetic #magic #prince caspian #the voyage of the dawn treader #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #skandar keynes

[savagechickens]

Cat and Mouse.

And other games.

#cat #mouse #battle #games #chess #danger

[chirpsythismorning]

Vecna’s plan requiring Mike to leave for California means nothing. The number 1 following Mike cryptically at the airport means nothing. Them barely giving us Mike’s perspective the last two seasons (despite him being the original protagonist) means nothing and it isn’t setting up his POV to be revealed in s5 bc the entire audience is completely comfortable with where Mike stands as a character in regards to his deeper feelings/motives. No confusion there so no need to address that. Mike saying How will I survive a whole week without you guys at the start of s4 wasn't foreshadowing his fate at the end of said week. Mike standing in front of exit signs 3+ times in s4 is probably just a coincidence. Mike being associated with gaping mouths in multiple moments spanning the entire series, even going back to his very first line on the show, means nothing at all. Nancy’s vision about her family (Mike) dying was mentioned at the end of s4, but it didn’t happen so probably won’t ever happen, even though there’s still another season left set directly after the events of s4. Will calling Mike the heart and how without heart they’d all fall apart, was not in any shape form foreshadowing something happening to Mike and them all falling apart, bc Mike is definitely just a prop and everything in relation to his story only holds meaning on the surface or for other characters arcs and couldn’t possibly be hinting at something deeper that’s being saved as one of the many surprises for the last season.

#byler #stranger things #im sorry but ppl getting mad over speculation about mike and vecna is weird… especially when there's series long evidence… #like we know for a fact Will and vecna are facing off in s5 it's a given with the most basic ga being ready for it #it’s probably going to really come to a head in that final battle in the last two episodes #so early s5 and everything leading up to Will being confronted by vecna cant just be Will and vecna confronting each other over and over… #that would make their final confrontation anticlimactic #there’s a reason we keep seeing a chess board/dnd in relation to the events to come #bc EVERYONE is a piece in vecna’s game #EVERYONE plays a role in him reaching his main goal #back in 2019 if ppl heard max was a target or Nancy was a target in s4 they would’ve been confused #bc there’s little to no ties between the mindflayer and those characters #for a fact Will has more ties to vecna than them #HOWEVER them having no connection to vecna is not entirely true #vecna is connected to Max and Nancy’s trauma related to the person they lost because of him.. #and he used that against them to be 10 steps ahead so that he can lead up to reaching his final goal AKA WILL #he could have just got will 10 times already but he doesn't do it that way #we could’ve not had any of the events in s3-4 happen with random ass characters #BUT THE REALITY IS VECNA WANTS/NEEDS CANNON FODDER #he needs ppl that are just players in his game to overcome to eventually follow through with his plan #Mike arguably has fucked over vecna more than anyone #he’s also someone that both Will and El care for dearly #there’s a reason vecna's plan required the great big love triangle mishap in s4 #his plan literally depended on that miscommunication so that they would have a false win #like y’all just seem to want the most anticlimactic season with Will and vecna facing off only… #yes that Will happen and it will be some of the biggest moments of the season #but there's other stuff that's gotta happen... #and tbh will is going to be swamped with venca/lab revelations next season #them pounding us on the head with will is gay in s5 is going to feel repetitive as we've seen that four seasons in a row... #mike on the other hand...