ARCHON (NINTENDO NES)

Archon: The Light and the Dark is a 1983 video game developed by Free Fall Associates and one of the first five games published by Electronic Arts. It is superficially similar to chess, in that it takes place on a chessboard with alternating black and white squares; however, instead of fixed rules when landing on another player's piece, an arcade-style fight takes place to determine the winner, and each piece has different combat abilities. The player's piece health is boosted when they land on a square of their own color.

Archon was originally written for the Atari 8-bit family, then ported to Apple II, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, IBM PC, Macintosh, PC-88, and NES. It was designed by Paul Reiche III (who also created the game's graphics) and Jon Freeman and programmed by Anne Westfall.

A sequel was released in 1984: Archon II: Adept.