Ports

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Over the years, Chip's Challenge has been ported to a variety of systems.

Overview

Platform Release year Developer Publisher Levels
Amstrad CPC 1990 Images Software U.S. Gold 148
Atari Lynx 1989 Epyx Atari 148
Atari ST 1990 Images Software U.S. Gold ???
Amiga 1990 Images Software U.S. Gold ???
Commodore 64 1990 Images Software U.S. Gold 148
DOS 1990 Audio Visual Magic Epyx 148
NES N/A Images Software N/A 136
Windows 1992 Microsoft Microsoft Home 149
Windows 2015 Niffler Ltd. Steam 149
ZX Spectrum 1990 Images Software U.S. Gold 148

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, commonly abbreviated as C64 is a personal computer, first released by Commodore international in 1982. The Commodore 64 port of Chip's Challenge was released in 1990. Like most other ports, it was developed by Images Software and released by U.S. Gold.

The C64 ruleset is largely similar to the original Lynx game, but with several differences. Notably, blobs move at full speed, and try to move each tick. If the chosen direction is blocked, they wait one tick, then try again. Also, walkers use a new random seed each try. The port also suffers from a bug that breaks scoring and level skipping.

The PAL version of the port has a few additional issues. Thieves steal keys in addition to boots, which renders All Full unsolvable. Additionally, level 122, Totally Fair, is missing and replaced with level 131, Totally Unfair. The level order otherwise matches the original Lynx game (citation needed).

NES