This electronic chess board with magnetically moving pieces is the same bog-standard chess machine you could buy back in Radio Shack back in 1989, right down to the monochrome LCD. And actually, it looks like Rob reviewed one last year, describing its method of independent piece locomotion as “loud and grinding.”
Still, props to them for advertising the thing with a flamboyant appearance by the Universal’s most mincing monster turned Broadway Star… Erik, the Phantom of the Opera.
Phantom Force Chess [Pro Idee]
“…down to the monotone LCD.”
I didn’t know LCDs made noise, let alone that they now make them in multiple notes.
Also the double pictures make me feel like I should be playing the hardest game of “spot the difference” ever.
“Answer: The 9,437th pixel is 1413FD instead of 1413FE.“
I’ve experienced a lot of LCDs that had a bit of a whine to them – probably the backlight inverter. Very annoying, and definitely a monotone.
Two things.
1) wow… someone other than me actually knows the phantom’s name. you would have to read the book to know it.
2) that is definitely the wrong mask… not even close… nice try though!!