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Chip's Challenge 1

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Chip's Challenge 1
Chip's Challenge 1 cover
Developers
Niffler
Publishers
Niffler
Nkidu Games
Release dates
DOS 1991
Windows 3.x 1992
Windows May 28, 2015
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Chip's Challenge 1 on Wikipedia
Chip's Challenge
Chip's Challenge 1 1992
Chuck's Challenge 3D 2014
Chip's Challenge 2 2015

Key points

Originally developed and published for Atari Lynx handheld in 1989 and converted to wide variety of platforms
Received three different conversions for PC. The Steam release is the most recent version and is based on the engine of sequel
The 1992 Windows version and the 2015 Steam release don't use the music from the original Atari Lynx version, although the original soundtrack can be modded back to the Steam version

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
 MS-DOS version with audiovisual presentation patterned after the Atari Lynx original.
DOS
Retail
DRM-free
 Sold as part of "Microsoft Entertainment Pack 4" & "Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack"[1]
Windows 3.x
Steam
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 Based on Chip's Challenge 2.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/data/options.txt[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/346850/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>/games[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/346850/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
Executable16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz or faster processor
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 6.0 compatible
Based on the 2015 version.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/346850/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (346850) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References