Editing Chip's Challenge

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[[Image:MSchips.png|thumb|right|250px|A screenshot of a Chip's Challenge window on [[Lesson 1]]]]
[[Image:Lynxchips.png|thumb|right|250px|An image of [[Lesson 1]] in the [[Lynx]] version of Chip's Challenge]]

'''Chip's Challenge''', often abbreviated to ''Chip's'' or simply ''CC'', is a video game by [[Chuck Sommerville]] that was originally released for the [[Lynx ruleset|Atari Lynx]] in 1989. It was later ported to other platforms, the most well known being the [[Microsoft's version of Chip's Challenge|Windows port]]. The Windows version was originally released in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack in 1992, and later in the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack. It has remained a popular game ever since. 

The game features [[Chip]], who wants to become a member of [[Melinda]]'s select [[Bit Busters Club|Bit Busters club]], and is tested with a puzzle which he must finish in order to enter. The original Chip's Challenge [[level set]] has 148 levels (and 149 in the Windows version), but many others were created with [[level editor]]s that were soon created after Chip's Challenge was released. Eventually, the community began releasing [[:Category:Levelsets|Chip's Challenge Level Packs]] constructed from selected levels from these custom level sets, each containing 149 levels.

==Story==
From the ''CHIPS.HLP'' file distributed with the Windows Entertainment Pack version of Chip's Challenge:

''Chip is willing to do anything for Melinda the Mental Marvel, more than anything, because he wants to join Melinda's exclusive computer club, the Bit Busters. Finally Melinda has offered him membership, but on one condition! Chip must find his way from one end of Melinda's magical clubhouse to the other, picking up cosmic [[computer chip]]s along the way.

''If that sounds easy, then you've never been to Melinda's magical clubhouse. It's awesome inside, but tricky, and a little scary too. There are [[teleport]]s, [[invisible wall]]s, [[force floor]]s, [[water]] traps, [[Lock|locked doors]], and plenty of [[monster]]s. There's magic, mystery, and behind the scenes there is Melinda, keeping score on your progress and providing helpful [[hint]]s.

''As you succeed in helping Chip move through each level of the clubhouse, Melinda gives you a secret [[password]] that allows you to return. And Melinda rewards perseverance. If she thinks Chip has tried long enough and hard enough on a level<!---which actually means at least 10 deaths in a row where Chip was alive for at least 10 seconds; this info is not in the text--->, she'll let him sneak through to the next level. But it takes a lot of perseverance to impress her. How big is the clubhouse? [[Fireflies|144 levels]] is the rumor. But some claim that Melinda is [[Thanks to...|still building]]. In any case, it defies dimensions so don't get lost.''

==See also==
* [[Tile World]]
* [[Chip's Challenge 2]]
* [[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2]] ''(despite its name, CCLP2 is the first official level pack produced for CC1)''

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