Atari Lynx Longplay - Chip's Challenge (OLD)

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Played by: Eric-119

Chip's Challenge gained fame mainly from the Windows port produced by Microsoft. This, however, was the original version. It is tile-based game with both puzzle and reflex elements. In this movie, I first play through the 144 levels of the main game. I then enter level code JHEN to access the 4 secret levels, numbered 146-149. (There is no level 145.) After completing the secret levels, I enter code MAND to access the Mandelbrot and Julia set plotter. (Nothing in the game itself tells you this code exists. You just have to know about it somehow.) After messing around with the plotter for a while, I end the movie.

The slightest mistake can lead to death or an unwinnable situation, requiring you to restart the level. Fortunately, Bizhawk has a rewind key, which I used to undo such mistakes, and even things that I thought looked bad or sloppy. I didn't have any consistent practice about such things, however.

In some levels there are things hidden under blocks, including harmful things. A few times I deliberately fall for these to show that they are there. There is a technique, called "block slapping" in the Chip's Challenge community, to push a block without stepping onto the vacated tile. This can be used to safely see what is under a block. It seems unlikely that the game designers intended the ability to block slap, and this movie never shows it. -
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