In the boiler room pressure cooker that is High School one lonely nerd attempts the impossible... getting into the computer club?

Contrivances and lack of versimilitude aside, any excuse to take on 144 badass challenges is good enough for me and Chip!

https://youtu.be/MN0NK2icRDk
+ Graphically looks great for an essentially a remastered version of the original classic 1989 game
+ 144 levels so a lot of content
+ Each level seems to add new mechanics and be pretty unique compared to the last
+ Challenging

- The background music was extremely low compared to the loud in-game sounds (not noticeable in the video above)
- Like the classic game, you must repeat the entire level if you fail or messup any part which can be very tedius during longer levels with multiple puzzles you have to complete.
- No full-screen option

I'd recommend this to those who enjoyed the classic version back in the day, this game definitely brings back some nostalgia. I'd also recommend it to people who simply love puzzle games.

If you've read my Chuck's Challenge 3D review, you'll know by now how much this game meant so much to me in my childhood. As such, I'll skip explaining it all over again and just quickly say a few things:

Chip's Challenge, released in 1989, is a puzzle game with Sokoban elements. I LOVED the complexity and variety in this game. I still do. The old feelings of frustration when you make a button press mistake when you're so close to finishing the level...as well as the old feelings of jubilation when you complete a fiendishly tricky level, are what, in my opinion, makes this game a stone cold classic and get a perfect rating of 10/10.

NOW: onto the remake itself.
This appears to feel mostly based on the Lynx version of the game (with moving animations and stuff) as opposed to the old MS version (where you have static moving images). It looks flashy and all but I grew up playing the MS version so I'm VERY used to those sprites. Thankfully, you can mod them (as well as the old songs) into the game and play it that way (check out the guides in the Community Hub).

Speaking of songs, while I initially planned to mod in the MS version music, I was pleasantly surprised and thrilled that the music was comprised of Scott Joplin piano rags. (They're public domain in case anyone's worried - i.e. perfectly free from copyright and can be used anywhere.) Ragtime has personally been one of my most favourite classical music genres, and while the renditions here are at times a bit too flat (ah well. You don't have a lot of room to put feeling into synthesized beats, I suppose.) and in the case of a few, a bit too fast, I find them still catchy and fun to listen to.

As far as I have observed, the old glitches and bugs from the MS version have been fixed, meaning some of the old exploits used to speedrun the game are no longer possible. This is part of the reasons where I feel the game loses some of its charm - the bugs were what used to make speedrunning more fun, and in some cases levels much less difficult and impossible. On the other side of the coin, some of the levels can now be played how they were originally intended to, which is a blessing I guess.

Definitely, for me the most negative aspects are the options menu and the sound effects. Selecting window size as 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x...not very helpful, in my opinion. Not just that but it also requires a program restart. I'd rather work with normal resolution option choices. I didn't quite like the new sound effects, and as another reviewer commented, they overpower the music when left on default settings. Of course, you can change the sound effect volumes, but I'd rather not have done that in the first place.

But still. This game gets a glowing recommendation from me, almost purely for the nostalgic value you'll get out of it if you've played the old one. Go forth and experience the joys and frustrations of my youth.

ALSO MOM I FINALLY BEAT BLOBNET AFTER 10+ YEARS, ARE YOU PROUD OF ME? :D

When to buy: You pick the price, I don't care. Anything goes, even full price. I recommend getting the bundle though, you get the long-awaited Chip's Challenge 2 and level editor. Quite a sweet deal.

10/10 (the game as a whole)
8.5/10 (this remake)

10 years later I still suck terribly at this game
Would harrass myself again 1024/10

I played this as a lad at my grandmother's house. This was a nice trip down memory lane. I may have left the game running.... 51 hours?