released in 1991, based on xiangqi, commonly known as "Chinese chess". The next year's Battle Chess 4000 spoofed science fiction movies and television series (such as a battle sequence involving the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey) and used a clay-animation art style similar to ClayFighter. On December 28, 2015, Brian Fargo revealed that he had started working on a second sequel of the game titled Battle Chess 3 in the late 1990s but the game was cancelled. He also released a footage of the prototype of the game. Inspired games Battle Chess also inspired a number of video game clones, such as Star Wars Chess, Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Chess Wars, Combat Chess and National Lampoon's Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1. Another clone, War Chess was released by XS Games for the PlayStation 2 in 2005, and was later ported to the PC by Big Fish Games and released online. One similar game, titled Battle vs. Chess, was developed by TopWare Interactive for "just about every platform". However, Interplay filed and won an injunction for trademark infringement in 2010 and TopWare was prevented from releasing Battle vs. Chess in the United States. The District Court of California came into session and given that after two years of litigation, TopWare Interactive discharged their lawyer, resulting in Interplay winning the case by default. Topware afterwards released the game in North America with the name Check vs. Mate. Remake For the Windows 3D remake, the Subdued Software (industry veterans) tried in 2012 unsuccessfully to raise funding on Kickstarter. The remake Battle Chess: Game of Kings was released by Interplay on Steam in 2015. On Whatoplay.com it has a rating of 49%. References External links 1988 video games 3DO Interactive Multiplayer games Acorn Archimedes games Amiga games Apple IIGS games Atari ST games Cancelled Atari Jaguar games Cancelled CD-i games Amiga CD32 games Chess software Commodore 64 games Commodore CDTV games DOS games FM Towns games Games commercially released with DOSBox Interplay Entertainment games Classic Mac OS games Multiplayer and single-player video games Multiplayer null modem games Nintendo Entertainment System games NEC PC-9801 games X68000 games Windows games Video games developed in the United States