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| Laser Chess | |
|---|---|
| Designer(s) | Mike Duppong[1] |
| Platform(s) | Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit |
| Release | 1987 |
| Genre(s) | Strategy |
Laser Chess is a two-player, strategy video game modeled as a board game with chess-like pieces, most of which have mirrored surfaces, and one of which is a laser cannon. Laser Chess first appeared in Compute!'s Atari ST Disk & Magazine in 1987, written in Modula-2, winning the $5,000 first prize in the magazine's programming competition.
Ports written in BASIC and machine language were published in the June 1987 issue of Compute! for the Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari 8-bit computers as type-in programs.[2] Laser Chess has been re-implemented many times, including a variant Advanced Laser Chess with a larger board and additional pieces, or the new variant LASER CHESS: Deflection with a level editor and more pieces like portals available on Steam.[3]
- ^ Wilk, Stephen R. (October 2007). "Playing with light: A history of games that incorporate the photon". Optics and Photonics News. 18 (10). Optical Society of America: 18.
- ^ Duppong, Mike (June 1987). "Laser Chess". Compute!. p. 25. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
- ^ Duppong, Mike (Summer 1989). "Advanced Laser Chess". Compute! Amiga Resource Summer 1989. pp. 72–75.