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Chip's Challenge (1990)

Epyx

Port of Chip's Challenge

Amiga · Atari ST/STE · DOS · PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.64 from 76 ratings

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A port of Chip's Challenge, originally for the Atari Lynx. In this strategy game, players of all ages will love the puzzle-solving challenges facing Chip as he must conquer 144 game levels in order to join Melinda's exclusive computer club, the Bit Busters. Every level of Chip's Challenge represents a unique, timed, one-player puzzle. Solving a level invariably involves collecting … Read more
A port of Chip's Challenge, originally for the Atari Lynx. In this strategy game, players of all ages will love the puzzle-solving challenges facing Chip as he must conquer 144 game levels in order to join Melinda's exclusive computer club, the Bit Busters. Every level of Chip's Challenge represents a unique, timed, one-player puzzle. Solving a level invariably involves collecting microchips with available tools such as keys, magnets, shields, and cleats. Doors, traps, monsters, and other mischievous devices pose barriers, entice you into danger and complicate your progress. As each level is solved you are led into the next, slightly more difficult level. The first eight levels are puzzles that introduce you to the game's basic concepts. You find your way through mazes, collect keys to open doors, teleport from place to place, pick-up tools, and use logic to conquer each puzzle. The levels get progressively more formidable. You must pay attention to subtle hidden clues, learn how to evade many forms of disaster, and execute a complex series of actions. With 144 levels, even the most skilled strategy game players will be absorbed by Chip's Challenge for countless hours. Read less
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Developers
Epyx
Publishers
Epyx, US Gold Ltd
Genres
Puzzle, Strategy
Themes
Action, Science fiction
Series
Chip's Challenge
Steam
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Release dates

  • 1990 (Full Release) (Europe) Amiga, Atari ST/STE, DOS
  • 1991 (Full Release) (North_America) DOS
  • Mar 30, 2023 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)

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3 stars
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2 stars
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anarchistica

Review anarchistica 2/5 · Sep 23, 2020

Chip's Trial & Error

I remember playing this waaaay back in the day in Windows 3.1. I'm really bad at puzzle games so i never got very far but it was entertaining. For a 30+ year old program it holds up surprisingly well. It runs in Win10 without a hitch. You can even pick the visuals/sound you prefer, either the original Atari Lynx (!!) …

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I remember playing this waaaay back in the day in Windows 3.1. I'm really bad at puzzle games so i never got very far but it was entertaining. For a 30+ year old program it holds up surprisingly well. It runs in Win10 without a hitch. You can even pick the visuals/sound you prefer, either the original Atari Lynx (!!) version or the crummier Windows version.

The game itself consists of navigating various types of surfaces, each of which have special footwear that allow you to ignore their effect (i.e. firewalking shoes). There are doors for which you have to find keys, obstacles that have to be turned on/off with buttons, enemies that have to be avoided, et cetera.

It's not very good to be honest. There's a timer (ugh) and if you die you have to start the entire level over again. And a lot of the "puzzling" involves trial & error. Early on there's even a lame trap where one of the block you have to find chips under actually has a fireplace (i.e. instant death). Levels get increasingly maze-like as well. I could deal with this when the only alternatives were Prince of Persia or Dangerous Dave, but now i definitely lack the patience.

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