Chip's Challenge
Chip's Challenge is a top-down tile-based puzzle video game originally published in 1989 by Epyx as a launch title for the Atari Lynx. It was later ported to several other systems and was included in the…
Chip's Challenge is a puzzle developed by Epyx, released 31 December 1989 on Nintendo Switch and Atari Lynx.
What Chip's Challenge is
Chip's Challenge is a puzzle game developed by Epyx and released in 1989. It was published by Atari Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch and Atari Lynx.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The premise of the game is that high-school nerd Chip McCallahan has met Melinda the Mental Marvel in the school science laboratory and must navigate through Melinda's "Clubhouse", a series of increasingly difficult puzzles, in order to prove himself and gain membership to the very exclusive Bit Busters Club.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Chip's Challenge launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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All media
Dlc
Remakes
Quick answers
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