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[PC] Free - Chip's Challenge 1 (Was $2.95) @ Steam

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[PC] Free - Chip's Challenge 1 (Was $2.95) @ Steam
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Clear on 22/09/2020 - 21:02 store.steampowered.com (4079 clicks)
Last edited 22/09/2020 - 22:56 by 1 other user

A classic game originally released in 1989 on the Atari Lynx and still a very challenging but fun game. Now free forever on Steam.

Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles.

Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time. Show Chip how to use blocks of soil to overcome water traps and cherry bombs, find keys, and pick up the computer chips which Chip needs to solve some puzzles.

Can you help Chip win the cold heart of his one true love and become an official Bit Buster? If you can't, no one can!

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  • incipient on 22/09/2020 - 21:07
    +12

    Oh damn. Quality entertainment this one! Has been many a year my old foe. I never finished you back then! And now…ahh I probably still won't haha.

    • Clear on 22/09/2020 - 21:08
      +4

      I had forgotten how frustrating it was that there is no checkpoints or saving. Those really long puzzles were a nightmare.

      • Drakster on 22/09/2020 - 21:46
        +4

        I remember that the Windows version would sometimes allow you to skip a level if it detected you had spent a long time already on it.

        • SF3 on 22/09/2020 - 23:45
          +1

          allow you to skip a level if it detected you had spent a long time already on it.

          sympathy award?

  • Junk Sifter on 22/09/2020 - 21:28
    +19

    Microsoft Entertainment Pack was the bomb! I can't count how many hours I spent on this game, Pipe Dream and JezzBall.

    • pull the lever on 22/09/2020 - 22:01
      +5

      OMG JezzBall, now that was some good 90s entertainment alongside SkiFree.

    • SenZubEanS on 22/09/2020 - 22:58
      +3

      Thank you for also mentioning these games. I had forgotten about them all and just got whacked in the face with nostalgia!!

    • tomsco on 23/09/2020 - 07:54
      +1

      My god. You’re killing me with nostalgia.

    • blurn on 23/09/2020 - 09:55
      +2

      When I got my first PC (Compaq Presario) I got JezzBall, Chip's Challenge and another game I forgot the name of but it was like pick up sticks where you had to click on the top most stick and clear the pile. I think there was a ball you had to click which was thrown in the air and you had to clear a set number of sticks before the ball fell down.

      • Harold Halfprice on 23/09/2020 - 22:02

        Goddamn… I used to love JezzBall.

        This whole post is bringing back a lot of childhood memories.

  • SelfMade on 22/09/2020 - 21:29
    +6

    Came here for free chips…left disappointed.

    • [Deactivated] on 22/09/2020 - 22:37

      I was hoping for an Erik Estrada quiz.

    • Embaloo on 22/09/2020 - 23:18

      Haha yeah me too, came on on to look for more mission chips deals, and left disappointed that I had already purchased chips challenge ha.

  • rockthekazbah on 22/09/2020 - 21:42
    +1

    Up voting for the nostalgia, downvoting because I could never finish it

  • iwatchfatpplsleep on 22/09/2020 - 21:52
    +2

    Holy shit, I was just searching for this yesterday after not having played it since like '99.
    Wanted to know if I had muscle memory to do the ice sliding part near the start of level 9. Yep, didn't even have to think about it.

    • Fliedlice on 23/09/2020 - 23:44

      Omg I literally was the same. What a coincidence. I tried googling the name of the game the I used to play 25 years ago when I was the kid. I tried searching the name for it for the past 2 days and even about 30 minutes ago (I have no idea what made me remember this game). I didn’t remember the name of the game - it was driving me nuts.

      Then all of a sudden I came browsing on OzBargain and here it is. Wow It’s so bizarre.

  • Switchblade88 on 22/09/2020 - 21:56

    I have a treasured floppy disc with pencil-scrawled notes of the level codes for this. In addition to the ones drilled into my memory…

    BQSN

    Doesn't seem you can enter them in this version though?

    • WhyAmICommenting on 22/09/2020 - 23:25

      Sad, I have codes from my lynx days. Actually I still have the lynx so should fire it up just for this.

      • tomsco on 23/09/2020 - 07:55
        +1

        I have a lynx somewhere… somewhere 😔

  • Kawaii on 22/09/2020 - 22:05

    nice find

  • pogichinoy on 22/09/2020 - 22:06

    Classic game!

    I remember the code for the last level was DIGW

  • justtoreply on 22/09/2020 - 22:10
    -1

    Wow. That crappy ending is just not good enough for the effort

  • [Deactivated] on 22/09/2020 - 22:49

    At least you don’t have to enter fourth word on the last line of 35th page of the user manual to continue playing.

    • BartholemewH on 23/09/2020 - 19:49

      How about one code from the red book and one code from the blue book….

  • ywpn on 22/09/2020 - 22:52
    +1

    I remember begging mum and dad to buy me the Disney Adventures magazine all the time coz it had a section on cheat codes that Chips Challenge seem to always a part of.

  • Sidog on 22/09/2020 - 23:12
    +3

    Atari Lynx for life!

  • Embaloo on 22/09/2020 - 23:21
    +3

    This, Jill of the Jungle, Wacky Wheels, Liero, Charlie the Duck. The famous five floppy disks that could easily be played on repeat.

  • awaiko on 23/09/2020 - 08:44
    +2

    I didn't recognise it from the OzB screenshot, but clicking through I suddenly had some nightmare-level flashbacks. Some of those puzzles were brutally hard. I can't wait to get frustrated with them again.

  • kelvinate on 23/09/2020 - 09:02
    +4

    will this run on my win 10 x64 with 16gb ram and 1050tx?

    /s

    loving playing this back in the days.

  • Jaxx on 23/09/2020 - 09:51

    I used to be able to add free games to my Steam library on my iPhone using the Steam app, but it doesn't seem to be working now, prompts me to install Steam instead…anyone else?

  • KingSlayyer on 23/09/2020 - 09:57

    I thought it said free chips :(

  • monky on 23/09/2020 - 11:32
    +1

    Sadly the steam version doesn't have the original soundtrack… Or didn't when I bought the bundle a couple years back on a nostalgia trip.

    • habib23q on 23/09/2020 - 11:40

      Nope it doesn't, I had this back in the day on the Lynx, C64 and Amiga too. Its not bad tho at all

      • monky on 23/09/2020 - 12:17

        I had forgot the Lynx even existed until now…

        • habib23q on 23/09/2020 - 12:19

          I think i had pretty much all the games that were released on it back in the day due to the fact i was working in Tandy at the time. But they were pricey even back then.

    • Shwayne on 23/09/2020 - 19:26
      +1

      It does have the original soundtrack, you can change the edition/version in the preferences.

      • monky on 23/09/2020 - 19:44

        Great to hear! Might give this a reinstall tonight then

        • Shwayne on 24/09/2020 - 14:16
          +1

          Is it everything you hoped for?

          • monky on 24/09/2020 - 14:16

            @Shwayne: Idk I went straight to bed after work. :o)

  • jlien on 23/09/2020 - 12:03

    haha, i remember playing this during the windows 3.1 days

  • Shwayne on 23/09/2020 - 15:23

    Good old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDNECHVtoQ

  • Shindo989 on 23/09/2020 - 16:04
    +3

    By the looks of it it’s free forever not just a limited time

    https://mobile.twitter.com/chuckschallenge/status/1308093829…

  • BartholemewH on 23/09/2020 - 19:51
    +1

    Bummer.

  • armitage on 27/09/2020 - 16:59

    93MB download for Chips Challenge? I thought this was ozbargain… original game is only 197kb and available on the internet archive https://archive.org/details/chips_challenge_windows_3.x

    • Clear on 27/09/2020 - 17:03

      And requires DOSBox for starters. Many reasons why there is a Steam version, e.g. native, trading cards etc.

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