I also think this was the most effort put into a cereal box prize ever made. And boy did it make waves compared to other lame prizes. I mean lookit some of the old commercials in this vid. One prize was a terrarium....an even more absurd prize than a re-skinned cereal-themed DOOM mod.
Let's be real, none of us kids ate that shit cereal but we begged our mother or father to get it just for the game and no one ate the cereal after we stuck our entire arm down the box. Well if I remember right it was in a paper case glued to the inside of the box.
A FPS Chex game made from a reskinned DOOM mod…and it’s actually good!! I guess that goes to show you that even the most ridiculous premises can actually work if done with great passion and care!
The "teleported back to their own dimension" thing was also used in Saber Rider, where the heroes would declare that what were clearly dead bodies had been "send back to the Vapor Zone!"
It's one of those "you had to be there" kind of situations I feel like for the most part. Although in this case it was also "a had to be then", you had to be there, then the importance of this at the time. It really was a brilliant gateway creation disguised as a promotion. A brilliant way to get kids too young for Doom into something carefully like Doom. Slightly subversive and yet corporate all at once, brilliant.
I already had Doom (I was 10 at the time) and used to burn through CDs of shareware. This game was so easy and short that I have no nostalgia for it other than knowing it exists and I played it hahah
My brother and I had the game, from a Chex box no less. That was an interesting time as we also had (shareware) versions of Doom and others in the late 1990s when we were in High School. I had no idea how long it's managed to stick around all these years from the fanbase.
I only had the shareware of most games thanks to PC gaming being so expensive (the opposite of today ) Chex Quest was one of the few complete games I owned and thanks to it's relatively low system requirements meant I could play something relatively current. It was a great game and it still holds up today.
I remember that, as we moved into the nineties, the good cereal giveaways increasingly involved saving multiple proofs-of-purchase and mailing them in, which they knew a lot of people would never bother to do. It's impressive that they managed to include such an impressive prize in the box itself at that time.
I can confirm the effectiveness of this promotion. I had never eaten Chex before, but pack it with a free game? I was in...and fell in love with Rice Chex. We bought many more boxes and I had so many copies of Chex Quest that I gave them to all my friends. I still snack on some Chex every now and then and I never would have before had they not tempted me with a free game of Doom.
I remember finding Chex Quest in a bulk box of Chex at Sam's Club in 1996 and couldn't wait to get home and try it out. It was my first FPS shooter and I've played it regularly ever since. I was excited when Chex Quest HD came out and have played that so much on my Switch.
I really appreciate your show. It's very positive, and informative. Brings happy childhood memories back! Something we need (especially right now). keep up the great work!
If they made a Doom Eternal style sequel to this game I would buy it in a literal heartbeat. I wouldn’t even look at how much it cost I would just shove an indeterminate amount of bills at the purveyor and run back to my home a very sad and satisfied man
I had just moved from st. Louis to Franklin tn in 1997 and I saw the promo for this and begged my parents to buy a box just to get the game. I quickly fell in love with it. The 90s sure were a blast and a completely different time.
I remember playing Chex Quest once, back in the day. I didn't realize it was actually released and promoted by the cereal company; I thought it was just a weird Doom mod, like so many other Doom mods that were popular in the 90's. I'm kind of amazed to learn how big a following it had. (It has sequels and remakes? Wow!) It might be worth looking it up again. :)
I got that Limited Run release. It's gigantic and goes right next to my Nintendo Cereal System box. The zorcher is a bit to be desired as it looks like it was hastily put together
Did not expect you guys to do a video on Chex Quest. Not that I'm complaining, of course. I love Chex mix, and I have Chex Quest HD for the Nintendo Switch. I still need to get past the first level, though. Speaking of food, do you think you can do some videos on the snacks and drinks from our childhoods? Here are a few examples: Hi-C Fruit Gushers Oreos Teddy Grahams
I played the ever living hell out of Chex Quest as a kid. My dad took me to Kroger and got me some Rice Chex as a kid (which I always loved). Then I found out there was a game inside it when we got home and I played that thing for weeks. I still play the series and was a big fan of the remaster from 2019. Some of the best memories of childhood gaming I had and it thankfully still holds up.
I remember getting a box of cereal with ChexQuest on it, and was very excited to play it, only to find out I couldn't because it was Windows only, and we had a Mac. I gave it to my friend who had a Windows computer, and he loved it so much he played it a ton and never let me play it. I still haven't played it to this day.
Can't imagine these days opening up a cereal box and getting an entire video game to play, let alone a first-person shooter on the DOOM engine. Chex Quest was ever so slightly before my time but I have to imagine it was one hell of a reason to buy a box of Chex back in the day.
My sister gave it to me from some Chex she bought for my niece. Loved that game even though it was basically doom. Had a few other copies from other cereal boxes I gave to friends. Oddly it was one of the games I could have on the computer without it being blamed for everything wrong with the PC. It wasn’t uncommon back in those days for parents to either visit sketchy sites with Java wide open or open every last email attachment and when the inevitable virus showed up to blame it on the video games.
I loved this game and it was my first experience with an FPS/Doom. It's wild how much of an impact it left. I rarely see it talked about but whenever its brought up, peoples eyes light up. I could probably dig out that disk still
Wow I had no idea there was a history after the original game. I got the game in a box. Then as an adult someone donated a bunch of old computers to the youth center I worked at. The game was at my parents house and I put it on the computers for the kids to play.
I love The gags with the sunglasses, and yes Chex Quest was awesome. I hope that they make a new model of it someday for AOL, or give it a bonus level in a Doom sequel!
You should check out Capt’n Crunch’s Crunchling Adventure. I would go back and forth between Chex Quest and Crunchling Adventure when I was growing up.
You could do 20 episodes on Mario and Luigi alone. The Bob Hoskins movie, the cartoon TV show(s), the actual origin of yon plumber brothers, the game rights/character rights, the multiple princesses, WTH is Toad?, the tech of the NES' and Classics, the Wii versions, Mario Parties... Please do all things Mario+Luigi. Thank you for this Chex episode. I lived the Wolfenstein through Doom 2 world in college, even LAN parties!, so I did not experience this game.
I was old enough for Doom when this came out, but I played the sh*t out of it anyway, under guise of teaching my little sister how to play. It was way better than a free cereal game had any right to be. Leaps and bounds above things like Cool Spot and Yo!Noid!
Roger Ebert described Gary Oldman's portrayal of Commissioner Gordon as a performance that made goodness compelling. This video game would fit in the same category. I love it when somebody makes something that should by every account be so stupid that it's not even funny as a joke, and not only makes it cool, but makes it legendary
Just found your channel last week, thanks to TH-cam for showing me your 1989 Batman video, love watching alot of toys, shows and movie history that you made, so I subscribe. 😀
My favorite toy prize was the free mail away for Lego Stuntclub series through Fruit Loops. I managed to eat A LOT ot that ceral quickly to get all four vehicles. Still have!
I love playing Chex Quest as a kid. It wasn't my First FPS. I was 10 but I had already played Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. I had heard that there was a 2008 follow up but I had no idea there was a 2019 HD remake and bundle or comic. So I'm definitely going to have to check those out.
God how times have changed. In the 90s a full amazing game was given out for FREE. Now $60 games that are only half finished with absolutely no passion or creativity involved in development come out with micro transactions and Grindy leveling systems that encourage paying money. When did society become so greedy? 😢
Speaking of Chex (since they were a major sponsor) you really should look at the 1950s Space Patrol someday. Their ways of blending show and merchandizing were certainly... creative. And they didn't have any problems with showing ray guns!
I played this game but I played Wolfenstein and Doom before this game. I played this because my grandmother had Chex. I remember being like dad is this DOOM? He looked at it and was like yep.
Magic Spoon is crazy I don't care how good it taste im not going to pay $10 for a box of cereal let alone $39 plus shipping and handling for 4 boxes, your out your damn mind. Bootleg fruity pebbles work just fine 🙂
Yeah. I'd like to give Magic Spoon a try... but $10 for a 7oz box? Or I could spend $11 for 76oz of Raisin Bran at Costco. Yeah, one TENTH the price per ounce.
This was the very first First person shooter I played. And I'm glad the remake is free on Steam. When I was growing up, my parents never allowed Doom in their house.
I remember when AVGN used to be good. Before James paid people to write his movie reviews and AVGN episodes. At least the episode wasn't God awful like Life of Black Tiger, Shreck or Episode 200. I really wish that James can get out of his funk...
Chex Quest may have been the first videogame to be packaged in a cereal box but it certainly wasn't the last. Does anyone remember Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure?
It has quite a fan base. They even released a big sequel a few years ago because i remember stocking the boxes with the adds on it. Also AVGN did a review on it. I am sure that helped the popularity. Besides that brutal chex commercial was halarious.
Chex ™️ Quest has had a weirdly defining role in my daily life since I first played it until today and continues to do so. Let me explain: My very first Hotmail password was a CQ cheat code because it was the fastest thing I knew how to type at the time and I knew nobody would come close to guessing it. Even today some of my most frequently used keys are crazy combinations and permutations of the dev names that comprise some of those same codes with different other words letters numbers and symbols.
I Was. *SO* Goddamned Jealous of Kids that had a Computer, up until 1999 when we could *FINALLY* Afford one. it was one of the most important moments in my life, without a shadow of a doubt.
if there was ever a video that would be on-brand for magic spoon to sponsor, this would be the one! never had this one originally but damn if this wasn't the best 'free toy inside' of all time?! I've been meaning to play the chex quest re-release I might have to fire that up! for the record I was a big fan of chex mix for a while. ... also the sunglasses bit was great, LOL
🤢🤮 is my only reaction when I see someone trying to say that Magic Spoon isn't thoroughly and utterly disgusting. It tastes like styrofoam with chemicals sprayed on it.
It'Snot fatal. I see what you did there. 😂 I loved Chex Quest, good memories, the happiest I had even been to open a box of Chex! Cereal will never be greater.
I dig the crown glasses. We didn’t play Chex Quest at my house, we were playing Doom at the time. It was the opposite with me as a kid, I was more excited about eating cereals based on video games rather than video games based on cereals. I had Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and Nintendo Cereal System, or whatever it was called. But my favorite would be Gremlins, which wasn’t a game, but the one I recall the most. It was like a sweeter Captain Crunch. I regret _all of it_ though, grains, carbs and sugars would be my undoing for the bulk of my life. I _would not_ do any of it over again. Imagine being sad about failing health while literally crying over the food that’s causing it, and of course, _not knowing why…_ Thanks FDA. There’s plenty of lawsuits waiting in the wings, especially _these days._ (Special note: that sadness was expressed _more than_ 20 years ago. I am old…) Great Stuff, as always!
I would play the hell out of a cereal themed Mario Kart. Cap'n Crunch in his Cap'n Cruiser, Toucan Sam in his Froot Looptie, Count Chocula in his Cocoa Carriage, Lucky the Leprechaun in his AutO' Gold, someone write these down! ✍
I didn’t own it, but played it at a friend’s house. However, I DID have a copycat Mr. Pibb game from McDonald’s (on a floppy disk, mind you) about a school where all the students and staff have been turned to zombies.
Doom Slayer: Rip and Tear!
Fred Chexter: Zorch and Spoon!
They did not have to go hard for a simple cereal promotional game, but they did and it lasts!
I also think this was the most effort put into a cereal box prize ever made. And boy did it make waves compared to other lame prizes.
I mean lookit some of the old commercials in this vid. One prize was a terrarium....an even more absurd prize than a re-skinned cereal-themed DOOM mod.
@@shenloken2 I am old enough to remember the terrarium. It got sweaty inside and the plants died!
Can you imagine what it would have been had Purina won the Console Wars?
Imagine if Burger King had done this with their Xbox games back in the day, they could’ve based Sneak King on Metal Gear Solid.
@@MrBeardsley You mean if it were actually good?
"How many kids would be tempted to eat the CD, and was it worth the risk?"
It was totally worth the risk, that CD was delicious.
Nothing like polycarbonate dusted with processed grain cereal to get you going in the morning.
Let's be real, none of us kids ate that shit cereal but we begged our mother or father to get it just for the game and no one ate the cereal after we stuck our entire arm down the box. Well if I remember right it was in a paper case glued to the inside of the box.
Probably tasted better than the cereal. Lol.
My partner : Why are you eating cereal for dinner?
Me : It's not just cereal it's Magic Spoon, Dan said I could, and I've lost control of my life.
My wife: "Let's not call each other partners unless we're playing doubles tennis or trying to win a tag team championship, alright?"
Me: "You got it!"
A FPS Chex game made from a reskinned DOOM mod…and it’s actually good!!
I guess that goes to show you that even the most ridiculous premises can actually work if done with great passion and care!
The key word of course being *"can"*. Many have tried many have failed. This game is special for that reason.
It was honestly great. Running around with a motorized spoon as the Doom chainsaw was spectacular!
The "teleported back to their own dimension" thing was also used in Saber Rider, where the heroes would declare that what were clearly dead bodies had been "send back to the Vapor Zone!"
It's one of those "you had to be there" kind of situations I feel like for the most part. Although in this case it was also "a had to be then", you had to be there, then the importance of this at the time. It really was a brilliant gateway creation disguised as a promotion. A brilliant way to get kids too young for Doom into something carefully like Doom. Slightly subversive and yet corporate all at once, brilliant.
I already had Doom (I was 10 at the time) and used to burn through CDs of shareware. This game was so easy and short that I have no nostalgia for it other than knowing it exists and I played it hahah
My brother and I had the game, from a Chex box no less. That was an interesting time as we also had (shareware) versions of Doom and others in the late 1990s when we were in High School. I had no idea how long it's managed to stick around all these years from the fanbase.
I only had the shareware of most games thanks to PC gaming being so expensive (the opposite of today ) Chex Quest was one of the few complete games I owned and thanks to it's relatively low system requirements meant I could play something relatively current.
It was a great game and it still holds up today.
I remember that, as we moved into the nineties, the good cereal giveaways increasingly involved saving multiple proofs-of-purchase and mailing them in, which they knew a lot of people would never bother to do. It's impressive that they managed to include such an impressive prize in the box itself at that time.
I can confirm the effectiveness of this promotion. I had never eaten Chex before, but pack it with a free game? I was in...and fell in love with Rice Chex. We bought many more boxes and I had so many copies of Chex Quest that I gave them to all my friends. I still snack on some Chex every now and then and I never would have before had they not tempted me with a free game of Doom.
I remember buying this at a yardsale for 25 cents and being shocked at how good it was.
Not "good for what it is", but out and out good
I remember finding Chex Quest in a bulk box of Chex at Sam's Club in 1996 and couldn't wait to get home and try it out. It was my first FPS shooter and I've played it regularly ever since. I was excited when Chex Quest HD came out and have played that so much on my Switch.
I really appreciate your show. It's very positive, and informative. Brings happy childhood memories back! Something we need (especially right now). keep up the great work!
If they made a Doom Eternal style sequel to this game I would buy it in a literal heartbeat. I wouldn’t even look at how much it cost I would just shove an indeterminate amount of bills at the purveyor and run back to my home a very sad and satisfied man
I had just moved from st. Louis to Franklin tn in 1997 and I saw the promo for this and begged my parents to buy a box just to get the game. I quickly fell in love with it.
The 90s sure were a blast and a completely different time.
"Snot Fatal". - I've never been more glad to have internet access than now.
I remember playing Chex Quest once, back in the day. I didn't realize it was actually released and promoted by the cereal company; I thought it was just a weird Doom mod, like so many other Doom mods that were popular in the 90's. I'm kind of amazed to learn how big a following it had. (It has sequels and remakes? Wow!) It might be worth looking it up again. :)
I got that Limited Run release. It's gigantic and goes right next to my Nintendo Cereal System box. The zorcher is a bit to be desired as it looks like it was hastily put together
Did not expect you guys to do a video on Chex Quest. Not that I'm complaining, of course. I love Chex mix, and I have Chex Quest HD for the Nintendo Switch. I still need to get past the first level, though.
Speaking of food, do you think you can do some videos on the snacks and drinks from our childhoods? Here are a few examples:
Hi-C
Fruit Gushers
Oreos
Teddy Grahams
HI-C Ecto Cooler with Slimer from Ghostbusters on the label.
This is a fantastic idea! Looks like Dan gave the comment a heart, so hopefully that means yes!
I played the ever living hell out of Chex Quest as a kid. My dad took me to Kroger and got me some Rice Chex as a kid (which I always loved). Then I found out there was a game inside it when we got home and I played that thing for weeks. I still play the series and was a big fan of the remaster from 2019. Some of the best memories of childhood gaming I had and it thankfully still holds up.
I remember getting a box of cereal with ChexQuest on it, and was very excited to play it, only to find out I couldn't because it was Windows only, and we had a Mac. I gave it to my friend who had a Windows computer, and he loved it so much he played it a ton and never let me play it. I still haven't played it to this day.
One would have thought that weaponized milk would be more useful in creating phlegm and mucus than in combating them.
I never knew how much Chex Quest had such a-
*puts on sunglasses*
-checkered past.
Chex armor is all well and good until your enemy discovers milk.
I’m too busy………playing “Bad Dudes”!! We have to save the President!!!!!LoL
The release of Chex Quest happened to coincide with my family getting our first PC so that summer was all about Chex Quest and Ski Free
Can't imagine these days opening up a cereal box and getting an entire video game to play, let alone a first-person shooter on the DOOM engine. Chex Quest was ever so slightly before my time but I have to imagine it was one hell of a reason to buy a box of Chex back in the day.
These days, you're lucky to get a coupon or discount code for the brand's lame online merch store.
Cereal was invented to sell milk! They lure you in with toys
My sister gave it to me from some Chex she bought for my niece. Loved that game even though it was basically doom. Had a few other copies from other cereal boxes I gave to friends. Oddly it was one of the games I could have on the computer without it being blamed for everything wrong with the PC. It wasn’t uncommon back in those days for parents to either visit sketchy sites with Java wide open or open every last email attachment and when the inevitable virus showed up to blame it on the video games.
That "rice stuff" pun was pretty wheat sauce ...
It wasn't bad for a cereal box prize. But it was just a reskinned, kid friendly Doom.
"How many kids would try to eat the CD??"
Someone needs to tell these guys that kids aren't that dumb. Well, at least not all kids. 😂🤣
US product liability law isn't based on "would a reasonable person do this?" but on "is it foreseeable that would some idiot somewhere do this?"
I loved this game and it was my first experience with an FPS/Doom. It's wild how much of an impact it left. I rarely see it talked about but whenever its brought up, peoples eyes light up. I could probably dig out that disk still
Wow I had no idea there was a history after the original game. I got the game in a box. Then as an adult someone donated a bunch of old computers to the youth center I worked at. The game was at my parents house and I put it on the computers for the kids to play.
Wow, the cereal culture is a legit force!!!
I am an old soul, love cereal like regular Chex and OG Corn Flakes
I played this and was quite amused with the Doom reskin. I think the only fully original content was the opening animation.
I love The gags with the sunglasses, and yes Chex Quest was awesome. I hope that they make a new model of it someday for AOL, or give it a bonus level in a Doom sequel!
I played the HD version! I unlocked Dr. O'Rryen from the cereal. Strangely, all the cereal they sold in Malaysia only had codes for Dr. O'Ryen.
You should check out Capt’n Crunch’s Crunchling Adventure. I would go back and forth between Chex Quest and Crunchling Adventure when I was growing up.
You could do 20 episodes on Mario and Luigi alone. The Bob Hoskins movie, the cartoon TV show(s), the actual origin of yon plumber brothers, the game rights/character rights, the multiple princesses, WTH is Toad?, the tech of the NES' and Classics, the Wii versions, Mario Parties... Please do all things Mario+Luigi. Thank you for this Chex episode. I lived the Wolfenstein through Doom 2 world in college, even LAN parties!, so I did not experience this game.
9:27 I feel like "you have saved Bazoik" is a great sarcastic thing to say to someone celebrating a minor victory that no one cares about.
Will we get see your take on Cpt Crunch vs The Sooggies?
I was old enough for Doom when this came out, but I played the sh*t out of it anyway, under guise of teaching my little sister how to play.
It was way better than a free cereal game had any right to be. Leaps and bounds above things like Cool Spot and Yo!Noid!
Hey ! Cool Spot is good too.
I think a better example would be the Chester Cheetah games.
Haa!
Yeah, i suppose The Shredded Ralston Warrior doesn't roll off the tongue quite like The Chex Warrior does.
😄👍
I didn't have chex quest as a pack in cereal game, I had ROLLER COASTER TYCOON baby!
Roger Ebert described Gary Oldman's portrayal of Commissioner Gordon as a performance that made goodness compelling.
This video game would fit in the same category.
I love it when somebody makes something that should by every account be so stupid that it's not even funny as a joke, and not only makes it cool, but makes it legendary
By far, one of my favorite videos! I never knew about the games, I was already playing W3D & Doom by that time though.
Good vid 👍
I remember playing this as a kid! Straight from the cereal box to mr family’s Gateway 2000 desktop.
I loved playing Chex Quest. I wish I had known about all these limited edition figures and such. Thank you for making this video.
Just found your channel last week, thanks to TH-cam for showing me your 1989 Batman video, love watching alot of toys, shows and movie history that you made, so I subscribe. 😀
My favorite toy prize was the free mail away for Lego Stuntclub series through Fruit Loops. I managed to eat A LOT ot that ceral quickly to get all four vehicles. Still have!
I love playing Chex Quest as a kid. It wasn't my First FPS. I was 10 but I had already played Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.
I had heard that there was a 2008 follow up but I had no idea there was a 2019 HD remake and bundle or comic. So I'm definitely going to have to check those out.
Every time I hear the Toy Galaxy theme, I jump up and do the robot.
God how times have changed. In the 90s a full amazing game was given out for FREE. Now $60 games that are only half finished with absolutely no passion or creativity involved in development come out with micro transactions and Grindy leveling systems that encourage paying money. When did society become so greedy? 😢
Speaking of Chex (since they were a major sponsor) you really should look at the 1950s Space Patrol someday. Their ways of blending show and merchandizing were certainly... creative.
And they didn't have any problems with showing ray guns!
I played this game but I played Wolfenstein and Doom before this game. I played this because my grandmother had Chex. I remember being like dad is this DOOM? He looked at it and was like yep.
Magic Spoon is crazy I don't care how good it taste im not going to pay $10 for a box of cereal let alone $39 plus shipping and handling for 4 boxes, your out your damn mind. Bootleg fruity pebbles work just fine 🙂
People say it tastes BAD.
Magic spoon is not a cereal, its basically a meal replacement that you can eat as a cereal. Its whey protein and tapioca starch. No sugar tho.
Yeah. I'd like to give Magic Spoon a try... but $10 for a 7oz box? Or I could spend $11 for 76oz of Raisin Bran at Costco. Yeah, one TENTH the price per ounce.
@@khandimahn9687 raisin brand is not a cereal its cardboard with raisins in it that you put milk on lol
The Alpha Bits Terrarium….. GOOOOD GOD THAT HIT ME IN THE FEELS. One of my favorite prizes as a child.
This was the very first First person shooter I played. And I'm glad the remake is free on Steam. When I was growing up, my parents never allowed Doom in their house.
Just rewatched this one yesterday on AVGN!
Still need my Brutal Chex Mix fix!!
I remember when AVGN used to be good. Before James paid people to write his movie reviews and AVGN episodes. At least the episode wasn't God awful like Life of Black Tiger, Shreck or Episode 200. I really wish that James can get out of his funk...
Chex Quest may have been the first videogame to be packaged in a cereal box but it certainly wasn't the last. Does anyone remember Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure?
I played Chex quest after I had played Doom, but I never knew it had sequels and whatnot...
I now know what’s been missing from my life.
Chex Quest HD is my first experience with the series. I need to try out the original games at some point
It has quite a fan base. They even released a big sequel a few years ago because i remember stocking the boxes with the adds on it. Also AVGN did a review on it. I am sure that helped the popularity. Besides that brutal chex commercial was halarious.
Chex ™️ Quest has had a weirdly defining role in my daily life since I first played it until today and continues to do so. Let me explain:
My very first Hotmail password was a CQ cheat code because it was the fastest thing I knew how to type at the time and I knew nobody would come close to guessing it. Even today some of my most frequently used keys are crazy combinations and permutations of the dev names that comprise some of those same codes with different other words letters numbers and symbols.
I Was. *SO* Goddamned Jealous of Kids that had a Computer, up until 1999 when we could *FINALLY* Afford one. it was one of the most important moments in my life, without a shadow of a doubt.
Wow, I remember this now! Chex Quest was shockingly fun back in the day.
“At ease, Captain Crunch” hahaha!
I still own my original CD. Love this game. And me and my co-host played the switch version for our other channel.
Played through this game so many times as a kid installed it on all my friends and cousins family computers too
My mom would rarely buy branded cereal when I was a teen and hated videogames so this was never going to happen.
Spent a lot of time playing Chex Quest back in the day! Good times!
if there was ever a video that would be on-brand for magic spoon to sponsor, this would be the one! never had this one originally but damn if this wasn't the best 'free toy inside' of all time?! I've been meaning to play the chex quest re-release I might have to fire that up! for the record I was a big fan of chex mix for a while. ... also the sunglasses bit was great, LOL
You're telling me John Carmack is the reason I still walk past Chex on the shelf at the grocery store?
I was born in 1960. Still eat Chex Cereal to this day. Played Wolfenstein and Doom a lot. But I've never seen or heard about this Game.
Dan Larson is the closest thing to a father I've ever had
Hi sibling!
I smell paternity test.
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🎻
Lmao
🤢🤮 is my only reaction when I see someone trying to say that Magic Spoon isn't thoroughly and utterly disgusting. It tastes like styrofoam with chemicals sprayed on it.
I was a gamer back in the day (and still am). I loved Chex (and still do)... but this is the first I heard about Chex Quest.
It'Snot fatal. I see what you did there. 😂 I loved Chex Quest, good memories, the happiest I had even been to open a box of Chex! Cereal will never be greater.
Wow, this brings back memories. Had no idea it had so many sequels. This channel is such a nostalgia trip. 😎
When I was 4 years old my dad introduced me to Quake, DOOM and Chex Quest. How can parenting get any better?
8:36 … I giggled.
Anyone have a Brutal Chex Quest mod?
That's Chex Quest 101 baby!
I still have my original CD ROM of the game!
11:47 was really interesting to me, is there any videos of people going over these levels?
.....this is the most obscure episode yet. I'm impressed.
That chex commercial was the most 90s thing ive ever seen.
I dig the crown glasses. We didn’t play Chex Quest at my house, we were playing Doom at the time. It was the opposite with me as a kid, I was more excited about eating cereals based on video games rather than video games based on cereals. I had Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, and Nintendo Cereal System, or whatever it was called. But my favorite would be Gremlins, which wasn’t a game, but the one I recall the most. It was like a sweeter Captain Crunch. I regret _all of it_ though, grains, carbs and sugars would be my undoing for the bulk of my life. I _would not_ do any of it over again. Imagine being sad about failing health while literally crying over the food that’s causing it, and of course, _not knowing why…_ Thanks FDA. There’s plenty of lawsuits waiting in the wings, especially _these days._
(Special note: that sadness was expressed _more than_ 20 years ago. I am old…)
Great Stuff, as always!
Bonus points for the "severance" script
Now we need a Sid Meier's Pirates-style strategy game retooled for Cap'n Crunch.
It's time to wear sunglasses over my sunglasses. And I've got plenty of sunglasses. ~Duke Nukem
I have never in my life heard of this.
Are you sure this isn't an elaborate Galaxy Media stunt?? (I kid, I kid).
Great as always!
I would play the hell out of a cereal themed Mario Kart. Cap'n Crunch in his Cap'n Cruiser, Toucan Sam in his Froot Looptie, Count Chocula in his Cocoa Carriage, Lucky the Leprechaun in his AutO' Gold, someone write these down! ✍
I didn’t own it, but played it at a friend’s house. However, I DID have a copycat Mr. Pibb game from McDonald’s (on a floppy disk, mind you) about a school where all the students and staff have been turned to zombies.
I wish I knew where my copy of episode 1 went...
Please go down the rabbit hole that is Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure!
There's a whole Crunchiverse to discover!
Come for the history of Chex Quest, stay for Dan's sunglasses collection.
A video about a cereal brand promotion, being sponsored by a differing cereal brand, is kind of interesting in and of itself.
I do so appreciate commitment to a bit :)