As of the early 2020s, Chuck's Challenge has gotten a new updated version known as Chuck's Challenge 3D 2020, and the original Atari Lynx version of Chip's Challenge has been ported to the Evercade via. the cart: Atari Lynx Collection 2. It has also been featured on the Commodore 64 plug n play systems and has gotten homebrew ports on the Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo.
Since you mentioned them, I should probably take the time to say the homebrew ports to the SNES and Genesis are BROKEN! Don't buy them! And what's even worse is that the same guy who made the SNES and Genesis ports is making a GBA port that's just as broken! He promised that he'd fix the SNES and Genesis versions in the Chip's Challenge Discord long ago, but it's years later and he still hasn't... don't support him, dude's a total scam artist. Get the Switch port instead. It's only $3 (unlike the SNES and Genesis versions which are super expensive), and, though it has a few minor bugs related to the new menus, is actually a decent port otherwise.
@@Bubbabyte99 for some reason in the switch version when all the save game slots are used up I cannot seem to overwrite old save games with new ones so I can’t save my progress beyond a certain point.
For the longest time, I thought Chip's Challenge was simply a 90's Windows game that got ported to the Atari Lynx. I never thought the game would have a history like this.
over the years my sister made an entire booklet of levels, and passwords so we could skip to our favorite levels.... this was our GO TO game.... love it!
Ahhh… I have very fond memories of Chip’s Challenge for the Atari Lynx. Incredibly fond. What a time to be a kid those years were! I never managed to play Microsoft’s port, though. Due the blocky animation.
Fun fact, apparently there was a game released in 2014 called Ben 10 Game Generator 4D which was based on a licensed version of the Chuck's Challenge 3D engine. It was released on Steam in 2016 alongside a big update, then delisted in 2018.
Who's still watching this all these years later? Chip's Challenge on Windows is an absolute core set of memories from my childhood. So happy to know that the same love is shared by such a passionate community!
I thought you and your readers would be interested in this Amstrad CPC experience of the 80s and 90s. I had all the Amstrad Action magazines and cover tapes. After purchasing the Romantic Robot from STS, I ran the game Chips Challenge, pressed the Button on the RR and up popped the code. During the game each level had a 4 character code to by pass levels you all ready played and continued from the higher level if the correct code was inputted. After having about 12 or so levels completed, I looked for the codes in the lines of the game programme code lines. These where broken up into four blocks and each block equalled a letter of the code as 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th if spread sheeted into columns. I found them all and a few bonus levels too and wrote to Amstrad Action with the results and had them printed in the next available issue. For the life of me I can't remember the issue number now aged 57, but I am sure there is a copy of the magazine out there somewhere.
I really love this game. Chip's Challenge I played back in the windows version. I think we had the pack with all the more famous games to it. I remember I beat all the levels, but took me so long to do so. I recently got it on steam and have been playing through it a bit at a time. I am happy that there is still a fanbase after so long on this fun puzzle game. Thank you Chuck Summerville for making such a memorable puzzle game that was really challenging, but really fun.
Honestly, for me personally, other than nostalgia I don't understand how anyone could prefer the Windows version over the Lynx. The Lynx version is objectively better in nearly every way, especially for having proper scrolling.
@@tresnonugroho6397 I did mention nostalgia Also, how do you not know what the Atari Lynx is if you're on the video and he mentions the game was originally on it at one point? Besides, nowadays you can emulate it if you don't have an actual system anyway.
I remember my cousin introducing me to this in ‘96. There was this one level she couldn’t beat so she asked if I could try.....I eventually beat that level. I been a fan of it since. Right now I’m playing Rommey’s Gauntlet which is basically the Android version.
My dad, siblings, and I can remember fondly on playing w/ Chip's Challenge w/ all 149 levels we have to pass, and let's say it was the earliest challenge we had ever faced.
I remember borrowing an Atari Lynx from a family friend as a kid. He also had Chip's Challenge. I looooved playing that game and I was sad when we had to return the Atari Lynx to the friend.
Used to play this so much on my family’s first PC lmao. Ahhh memories. Also playing the encyclopedia CD-ROM…it was slightly like a point and click game just way more educational lol
I used to play the Windows 3.1 version on my School back in the day, and later my mom downloaded a Symbian version for her Nokia 6020, which was the version i mostly played. I still have this phone with the game installed, but my mom lost the charger.
Fun fact : A NES port was on the works back then too, before it released on Windows 3.1 All the levels were ported, but due to some issues, it never released. A beta version was shared decades later.
The play style of this game is very similar to these "digger" games, especially the ones which has enough stuff to variate the gameplay in very many ways. I think I already mentioned Rocks'n'diamonds - one of those games. It contains some of these sidescrolling games like Sokoban, Boulder Dash, Supaplex (I think it actually got a bit of inspiration from Chip's Chal. with these Computer-styled visuals and, especially, chips, which are obstacles in there), Bomberman, Pac-man, Snake Bite, Zelda, Deflektor and etc.
I remember having dreams about visiting the local swimming facility and me stepping on one of the tiles of the clinkers turning it impassable after playing this game back in the day.
I’ve never heard of this game but it seems fun and it’s really interesting. I’m gonna play it. Prolly with a dos emulator. Thanks for exposing me to thsi cool game Frame.
If you like the game, then show your support by purchasing the Chip's Challenge pack on Steam and maybe have a look at Chuck's Challenge if you're up to it.
I played this on my dad's dos computer when I was 6, and then I saw a ginger kid play it in high school once, but I've been trying to remember the name of this game for about 5 years now 🎉
If you are more interested in the history of Puzzle Studio, I've got an archive of the Yahoo Group's mailing list, the source code, and my update of Puzzle Studio here: sites.google.com/site/awertyb/puzzle-studio
Played this game on a windows xp computer my family had, this game plus other windows xp game were installed and they built the gamer I am now. I could never find the names of them I actually had to ask chat gpt to find out the games name and I’m so glad it did find them 😭.
OHHHHH god damn im 33 as of a few days ago. and this brings me right back to being like what 10-12 or something. My fams first computer was a windows 98 machine I think possibly even 95. my mom was given by her boss because they where "upgrading" and didn't have enough space (they still used typewriters no seriously i learned to type on my moms work typewriter.) I played this thing in between sessions of hero's of might and magic.(im talking the first one.)
As of the early 2020s, Chuck's Challenge has gotten a new updated version known as Chuck's Challenge 3D 2020, and the original Atari Lynx version of Chip's Challenge has been ported to the Evercade via. the cart: Atari Lynx Collection 2. It has also been featured on the Commodore 64 plug n play systems and has gotten homebrew ports on the Sega Mega Drive and Super Nintendo.
And now it's on the Nintendo Switch!
@@FrameRater It is?! Well, I guess I better take a look then!
Since you mentioned them, I should probably take the time to say the homebrew ports to the SNES and Genesis are BROKEN! Don't buy them! And what's even worse is that the same guy who made the SNES and Genesis ports is making a GBA port that's just as broken! He promised that he'd fix the SNES and Genesis versions in the Chip's Challenge Discord long ago, but it's years later and he still hasn't... don't support him, dude's a total scam artist. Get the Switch port instead. It's only $3 (unlike the SNES and Genesis versions which are super expensive), and, though it has a few minor bugs related to the new menus, is actually a decent port otherwise.
@@Bubbabyte99 for some reason in the switch version when all the save game slots are used up I cannot seem to overwrite old save games with new ones so I can’t save my progress beyond a certain point.
For the longest time, I thought Chip's Challenge was simply a 90's Windows game that got ported to the Atari Lynx. I never thought the game would have a history like this.
No, it's the other way around.
for a long time, I thought chips challenge was made up by my weird dream brain but here we are, it's a real memory!
Chip's Challenge is one of my fondest early-childhood memories on my family's first PC: A Windows 98 Packard Bell tower with a Cyrix MII processor
TurboPikachuX Mine was 95 Acer
over the years my sister made an entire booklet of levels, and passwords so we could skip to our favorite levels.... this was our GO TO game.... love it!
Mine had one too.
Years later, i discovered ctrl-K
this game was the game i'd be excited to play when i was alone as a kid on the computer in the kids room on my uncles windows 95
I made that too lol , it was FUN
I also drew some levels actually when i was a kid . Still have the drawings ❤
Ah yes, the magnum opus of PC gaming.
Used to love this game on windows 95! So challenging as a kid.
Chips Challenge was a great part of my early childhood.
Ahhh… I have very fond memories of Chip’s Challenge for the Atari Lynx. Incredibly fond. What a time to be a kid those years were!
I never managed to play Microsoft’s port, though. Due the blocky animation.
Chip's Challenge 1 is free on Steam now.
Fun fact, apparently there was a game released in 2014 called Ben 10 Game Generator 4D which was based on a licensed version of the Chuck's Challenge 3D engine. It was released on Steam in 2016 alongside a big update, then delisted in 2018.
Just to add to the homebrew pile, there’s a new 68K Macintosh game called “Angry Robots!” which is basically a Chip’s Challenge love-letter.
Who's still watching this all these years later? Chip's Challenge on Windows is an absolute core set of memories from my childhood. So happy to know that the same love is shared by such a passionate community!
I played this on my windows 98. Good memories
Man I'm 30 and my favorite window is '98 and xp lol
0:06 I did not remember this level being in sokoban.😮
I think I played this game on my preschool's computers back in... 2008?? Insane this is what it looked like if this is really the game i remember
I thought you and your readers would be interested in this Amstrad CPC experience of the 80s and 90s. I had all the Amstrad Action magazines and cover tapes. After purchasing the Romantic Robot from STS, I ran the game Chips Challenge, pressed the Button on the RR and up popped the code. During the game each level had a 4 character code to by pass levels you all ready played and continued from the higher level if the correct code was inputted. After having about 12 or so levels completed, I looked for the codes in the lines of the game programme code lines. These where broken up into four blocks and each block equalled a letter of the code as 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th if spread sheeted into columns. I found them all and a few bonus levels too and wrote to Amstrad Action with the results and had them printed in the next available issue. For the life of me I can't remember the issue number now aged 57, but I am sure there is a copy of the magazine out there somewhere.
Dang, now I wanna get into this game just cause of all this history
Idk why I suddenly remembered this from my childhood and tried to look it up. Extreme nostalgia.
I really love this game. Chip's Challenge I played back in the windows version. I think we had the pack with all the more famous games to it. I remember I beat all the levels, but took me so long to do so. I recently got it on steam and have been playing through it a bit at a time. I am happy that there is still a fanbase after so long on this fun puzzle game. Thank you Chuck Summerville for making such a memorable puzzle game that was really challenging, but really fun.
Honestly, for me personally, other than nostalgia I don't understand how anyone could prefer the Windows version over the Lynx. The Lynx version is objectively better in nearly every way, especially for having proper scrolling.
Perhaps because not many people have Lynx?
I don't even know what Lynx is.
@@tresnonugroho6397 I did mention nostalgia Also, how do you not know what the Atari Lynx is if you're on the video and he mentions the game was originally on it at one point? Besides, nowadays you can emulate it if you don't have an actual system anyway.
I remember almost all of the games talked about here! Good games and fun times.
That's what I like to see, a happy ending for a Lynx game. 😊
I remember my cousin introducing me to this in ‘96. There was this one level she couldn’t beat so she asked if I could try.....I eventually beat that level. I been a fan of it since. Right now I’m playing Rommey’s Gauntlet which is basically the Android version.
My dad, siblings, and I can remember fondly on playing w/ Chip's Challenge w/ all 149 levels we have to pass, and let's say it was the earliest challenge we had ever faced.
I remember borrowing an Atari Lynx from a family friend as a kid. He also had Chip's Challenge. I looooved playing that game and I was sad when we had to return the Atari Lynx to the friend.
Used to play this so much on my family’s first PC lmao. Ahhh memories.
Also playing the encyclopedia CD-ROM…it was slightly like a point and click game just way more educational lol
In Chip's Challenge, you are collecting chips
In Chuck's Challenge, you are collecting F.I.S.H.
I see what they did there!
I used to play the Windows 3.1 version on my School back in the day, and later my mom downloaded a Symbian version for her Nokia 6020, which was the version i mostly played. I still have this phone with the game installed, but my mom lost the charger.
Fun fact : A NES port was on the works back then too, before it released on Windows 3.1
All the levels were ported, but due to some issues, it never released. A beta version was shared decades later.
Probably my favorite simple game of all time tbh
This was my first ever game in my first ever videogames console, the Atari Lynx. And I still play it nowadays.
"Peter.... Peter...."
The play style of this game is very similar to these "digger" games, especially the ones which has enough stuff to variate the gameplay in very many ways. I think I already mentioned Rocks'n'diamonds - one of those games. It contains some of these sidescrolling games like Sokoban, Boulder Dash, Supaplex (I think it actually got a bit of inspiration from Chip's Chal. with these Computer-styled visuals and, especially, chips, which are obstacles in there), Bomberman, Pac-man, Snake Bite, Zelda, Deflektor and etc.
You can get the Windows Entertainment Pack version to run on a 64-bit version of Windows by using DOSBox with Windows 3.1 installed.
But- but- WineVDM can also do that! Sorta.
The realization you get when you realize some of the puzzles in this game are similar to the ones in Pokémon gyms
I remember this game being kinda hard though. Much harder than the puzzles in pokemon games.
I remember having dreams about visiting the local swimming facility and me stepping on one of the tiles of the clinkers turning it impassable after playing this game back in the day.
As a child I thought that Chips Challenge was a game that came on a floppy disc… One of the first games we played on the windows 1998 laptop 😅
ahh the music takes me back!!!!!!
Oh man what a game I used to play as a kid
When I was a kid I thought chips were grey potato chips
I’ve never heard of this game but it seems fun and it’s really interesting. I’m gonna play it. Prolly with a dos emulator. Thanks for exposing me to thsi cool game Frame.
If you like the game, then show your support by purchasing the Chip's Challenge pack on Steam and maybe have a look at Chuck's Challenge if you're up to it.
Reminds me of playing this on Windows 98,
back in the day.
I played this in a daycare I'm 1999. Thought it was a fever dream until I stumbled on this video
I learned the word 'bummer' from this game. In fact, I remember CC every time I came across 'bummer'.
the guy in that first game gives me cartman special olympics vibes
summoning salt?
0:06 Boi, that Sokoban be dabbin
Omg I remember playing this game on my Compaq 486 50Mhz PC
Even retro games had plot twists
Loved this game as a kid
I played this on my dad's dos computer when I was 6, and then I saw a ginger kid play it in high school once, but I've been trying to remember the name of this game for about 5 years now 🎉
Dude I remember playing this game but couldn’t remember it’s name. Thinks man :)
This game and Doom were my favorite things growing up.
If you're interested in a modern top-down puzzler game like Chip's Challenge, you should check out Circuit Dude!
0:06 LOOK!!! HE'S DABBING!!! ISN'T THAT FUNNY??? XD
haha penis
I grew up playing the Windows 3.1 version
So glad I forked over the $5 for these on Steam.
Ohh ! I love the games !! But I never know that many versions exist this much. Among them, Microsoft version is the best!
whats the outro music
Hey man. Great videos. Are you hyped for Serious Sam 4?
Theres a sonic rom hack to let you play as chip lmao
Really great video as always
If you are more interested in the history of Puzzle Studio, I've got an archive of the Yahoo Group's mailing list, the source code, and my update of Puzzle Studio here: sites.google.com/site/awertyb/puzzle-studio
Played this game on a windows xp computer my family had, this game plus other windows xp game were installed and they built the gamer I am now. I could never find the names of them I actually had to ask chat gpt to find out the games name and I’m so glad it did find them 😭.
I wish these were on Switch
@@GordonComstock602 Fun fact : The game is on the Switch now. Although it isn't free and only uses the Atari Lynx graphics.
Gotta love this stuff.
So basically chips crush tried to murder him
Thanks, dude, I love this game
"Bummer."
Zyxw
Great video history of a fantastic game
The fifth level pack comes out in about 15 minutes from writing this comment.
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Aooo I play it before 7 years I want to download Chips challenge !!! How??
It's free on Steam. Some archive sites also lets you play the original without downloading anything.
Have you done rodents revenge?
bummer
This game got removed from steam lol
No it's still up
OHHHHH god damn im 33 as of a few days ago. and this brings me right back to being like what 10-12 or something. My fams first computer was a windows 98 machine I think possibly even 95. my mom was given by her boss because they where "upgrading" and didn't have enough space (they still used typewriters no seriously i learned to type on my moms work typewriter.) I played this thing in between sessions of hero's of might and magic.(im talking the first one.)