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Microchess

Microchess is a 1978 entry from the first wave of arcade and home gaming, preserved here as a discovery record for Apple II, TRS-80 CoCo.

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About the game

Microchess is a video game released in 1978 for Apple II, TRS-80 CoCo. VG90 lists it as a reference record so the title stays discoverable alongside the thousands of other releases that defined the first wave of arcade and home gaming.

the first wave of arcade and home gaming was a period of rapid change for the medium: cabinets and the earliest home systems were still teaching players what a video game could be. Placing Microchess in that timeline shows where it sat as the industry evolved.

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Why it matters

This entry is worth keeping because the first wave of arcade and home gaming is easy to flatten into a few famous names, when in truth cabinets and the earliest home systems were still teaching players what a video game could be. Preservation archives exist so lesser-known releases are not lost between the landmarks.

Technical notes

Platform on record: Apple II, TRS-80 CoCo. Release year: 1978. Details are drawn from public catalogue metadata; corrections and additions are welcome through the archive.

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