Lets Play Chex Quest PC

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Published on July 27, 2013 6:48:33 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWwd-WkCqhM

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Chex Quest (1996)

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Chex Quest is a non-violent first-person shooter video game created in 1996 by Digital Café as a Chex cereal promotion aimed at children aged 6--9 and up.[2][3] It is a total conversion of the more violent video game Doom (specifically the Ultimate Doom version of the game). Chex Quest won both the Golden EFFIE Award for Advertising Effectiveness in 1996, and the Golden Reggie Award for Promotional Achievement in 1998, and it is known today for having been the first video game ever to be included in cereal boxes as a prize. The game's cult following has been remarked upon by the press as being composed of unusually devoted fans of this advertising vehicle from a bygone age.

Plot

Set on a distant planet named Bazoik, the game follows the Chex Warrior, a humanoid in an anthropomorphic piece of Chex cereal armor, as he fights to eradicate the Flemoid invasion.[11] These slimy, green creatures have infested the planet and captured many helpless citizens whom the Chex Warrior must save.[14] His only weapon is a device called a "zorcher", which teleports his enemies instead of killing them.[3] The game starts at the landing pad of the research facility on Bazoik, after which the protagonist is teleported to the storage facility. The other levels include the laboratory, the arboretum, and finally, the underground caverns of Bazoik, where the Flemoids seem to be making a home for themselves.

Sequels

In addition to the original game, Digital Café's 1997 sequel entitled Chex Quest 2 was made freely available for gamers to download from the Chex Quest homepage.[6][1] In addition, plans were drafted to allow individual WAD file levels and updates to the game to be posted on the company Web site as an effective way of generating traffic there,[32][15] and advertisements for an upcoming third installation entitled Chex Quest 3 were available for viewing. Before any such title was released, the promotion came to an end and both Chex Quest 1 and Chex Quest 2 became effectively unavailable until they were posted for download on internet fan pages several years later. A number of fangame editions were completed by fans to act as the third game in the series, however nearly a decade would pass before a second sequel was created with any claim of canonicity with the original two games.

In 2008, Chex Quest 3, was developed and released as a service to fans[16] by former Digital Café members Charles Jacobi (art director and lead artist) and Scott Holman (programmer).[10] Former Digital Café sound design leader, Andrew Benson, also contributed several songs for the game. Originally intended as a single stand-alone level, Jacobi announced the development of a full sequel at the Chex Quest Fan Page (Chexquest.org) in June 2008, and the full game was released in September of the same year.[33] Jacobi's Chex Quest 3 makes use of artwork originally intended for Chex Quest 3 before it was canceled, and the game employs the ZDoom engine.[34] Jacobi's release also includes ZDoom-based remakes of Chex Quest and Chex Quest 2.

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