I had heard about this from a friend a long time ago, who mentioned it with a silly laugh. I thought 'it must be a joke!' and that was forgotten as quick as it was mentioned. Only later did I realize this game was actually 'of historical importance' (now is my turn to mention with a laugh perhaps) for several odd reasons, and being a fan of 'so bad it's good' i had to play it. I also enjoy doom (and doom clones)

:in tick voice: Spooooooon.

In a way it is great fun just to see ALL the references to doom. Your chex warrior mugshot's eyes dart back and forth, it's almost like shamlessly lifting every bit of doom and trying to make it as kid-friendly as possible. (There is also a commercial for this game and an intro for it on youtube i just saw. the commercial shows some slime going over a kids head and it looks like the STRAFE 'teaser'. While the intro shows the helmet of chex warrior's chex suit closing it looks a lot like the doom helmet in a cool way.)

There is something very disturbing about trying to market something that at the time was determined not to be for kids (doom), yet trying to make it have a wide audience with youngsters. In some ways this game might even promote violence. a kid isn't going to attack his sibling with a chainsaw. But he might just stab them with a spork if he saw it done in this game.. (the chainsaw is replaced with a rotating spork.)

the spork is killer. Ammo isnt much of a problem for the weapons but for the most part the spork alone can be used almost exclusively. The weapons and ammo are a bit odd and its not so clear what ammo goes for what weapon. Yes, they are all lifted straight from doom. The shotgun basically looks like a bigger taser pistol, but the ammo for each weapon when you pick it up and find it on the ground isnt very intuitive. The maps themselves are also a bit confusing (i found) and not so well done (imo). Heck the game is pretty amazing for what it is: something that's publishing costs were covered by America Online and came for free in a box of cereal. (this was when people would pay something for demo's of games, you realize...) Still, it's short and there isnt too much wandering around. The combat is easy enough for anyone to play. I reccomend the game if you curious about this weird bit of history. It's fun and funny, and actually decently done. So it's not nearly as bad as i was expecting.

I'm always a sucker for bad art

IF you remember how much attention in the media doom and mortal kombat got for violence, and how much of a social issue that became with video games. it's somewhat unreal that chex thought this would be a good idea to put a copy of this in their ceral. Yet it worked really well. It was a great business idea. I can only imagine the kind of backlash potential some move like that today would make. It's harder to imagine something like this happening today, because games cant just be tweaked and reskinned to provide a different atmosphere. Diseny couldn't just make a GTA V mod and call it Disneyworld and you do magic tea cup ride all over california.That wouldn't fool anyone. Still I do wonder how this not backfire.
Visually pleasing. Texutres look clean. Music is some retro win95 vaporwave nonsense (though i like this one).

Guns are hokey and confusing. that spork is baller. If you ever wanted to commit mass murder with spork, this might be the game for you!
oh right. It's not murder. it's just teleporting snotlings back to their own dimension. Ok. if you say so XD

What others are saying about CQ:
The tick: 5 Spooooons!
Salad Fingers Oh my this is rusty but it will do.

I am a bit dissapointed Wilford Brimley wasn't the boss at the end and he says, "Eat your damn oatmeal" and it becomes a big corporate showdown between kellogs and whoever the hell made Chex back then.

Perhaps that's something to look forward to in the coming HD remake only time will tell.