High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Laser Chess first appeared in Compute!`s Atari ST Disk Magazine in 1987, written in Modula-2. It won the $5,000 first prize in a programming competition held by the magazine. Ports of the game written in BASIC and machine language were published in the June 1987 issue of COMPUTE! Magazine for the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari XL and Atari XE.