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Chex Quest

56 points by tkuraku 4y ago

tkuraku 4y ago
I recommend using crispy-doom instead of chocolate-doom to play. https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Crispy_Doom https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Crispy_Doom
- qbasic_forever 4y ago
  The latest dsda-doom with its new indexed lighting emulation is awesome. It's fully hardware accelerated but the indexed lighting mode almost perfectly emulates the lighting and palette effects of the original software renderer. Basically you get the best of both worlds, super fast framerate and high resolution but classic looks. It's worth checking out: https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom
Sebguer 4y ago
There's a modern version available for free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/804270/Chex_Quest_HD/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/804270/Chex_Quest_HD/
- tkuraku 4y ago
  Unfortunately that doesn't work on Linux.
  - delecti 4y ago
    Given its ProtonDB rating, it seems likely it'd run well enough. https://www.protondb.com/app/804270 https://www.protondb.com/app/804270
tobinfekkes 4y ago
This is unexpected and amazing, because I was just showing my wife this game a couple weeks ago. I remember getting it in a Chex cereal box as a kid, and my brothers and I played it a ton. Then in high school, I stumbled upon a new disc copy of it at Re-PC (computer recycler in Seattle). Then I stumbled upon it again just recently on Steam. I can't escape it. HN was the last place I would expect to see this. How funny. It's just as I remember it! And exactly what you would expect for free in a cereal box from the 90s, but in the best way possible.
xwdv 4y ago
Was there ever a multiplayer mod for this game? It was pretty awesome.
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- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  Of course. https://youtu.be/gbr37vZvoGM?t=41 https://youtu.be/gbr37vZvoGM?t=41
maz1b 4y ago
I just love being teleported to my childhood on HN every so often. Didn't think I'd ever see Chex Quest on here! Also I'm very pleasantly surprised they did a 2020 re-release (?) but of course I only learned about it just now.
CurrentB 4y ago
Wow, I had forgotten until now about this game that I must have got from a cereal box as a child and played for countless hours.
acabal 4y ago
Angry Video Game Nerd has a great video on Chex Quest, in which he concedes that it's actually a surprisingly good game for its time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0y9i5E7nY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0y9i5E7nY
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modriano 4y ago
If you want to play Chex Quest in your browser, it's hosted on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/msdos_Chex_Quest_1996 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Chex_Quest_1996
SeanAnderson 4y ago
This is great :D I played Chex Quest as a kid! I never even played the original DOOM. Crazy how that all worked out.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
Chex Quest wasn't the only Doom promo, I recently learned about Kick soda Doom: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Kick_Attack https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Kick_Attack! It was a one level promotional thing made for a mountain dew soda ripoff. It's really bad, lol.
js2 4y ago
> The game is notable for the fact that it was the first game CD-ROM to be released inside a cereal box. Sales of Chex cereal increased by 295% in incremental volume over base and 48% in volume share during this promotion.[1] Much of the manufacturing cost of the CDs was paid for by America Online. AOL was allowed to include its dial-up online service client on the disc in exchange for this contribution. If you weren't around then this may be hard to believe but I cannot overstate how ubiquitous was the distribution of AOL CD-ROMs. They were everywhere. It felt like you couldn't open a magazine without one falling out. You'd stumble upon them on the sidewalk. AOL must have stamped a billion of the damn things. (Edit: I was afraid I might be exaggerating but apparently it really may have been a billion. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8594049/aol-free-trial-cds https://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8594049/aol-free-trial-cds) About 5 years ago I was pacing the Knoxville marathon and toward the end it was just me and a college student, maybe she was twenty, and somehow I brought up AOL. She'd never heard of it. She'd never heard of CD-ROMs. I was like, so there was this movie called You've Got Mail[1]. She hadn't heard of that either. I felt really old. 1. 1998 movie where AOL is a plot element. If you're up for a romcom that's a nice time capsule of the late 90s, you could do worse. Also has PowerBook G3s and the sound of modems.
- chungy 4y ago
  Never heard of CD-ROMs? Maybe the term was unfamiliar compared to just CD? I have a hard time believing any young person really hasn't heard of CDs, if not handled them.
  - js2 4y ago
    I think she'd heard of CDs but didn't know they could be used for anything other than music.
- cobertos 4y ago
  Why hasn't anyone tried this today? Or like, with flashdrive or some other modern equivalent? It seems like it would be a great way to get your product to literally everyone if you had the VC money
kelseyfrog 4y ago
Thirteen year old me got incedibly nauseous playing this game. Good times!
ztgasdf 4y ago
I highly recommend that everyone should check out Chex Quest 3[0], created by Charles Jacobi[1], who is the lead artist for the original Chex Quest games. It's a compilation of the first two games with an additional third episode. One minor note is that it was developed to be run on more modern source ports (e.g. G/ZDoom), unlike the original game which ran a modified version of the Final Doom engine.[2] Doom 1/2 has a very rich history and I love to see posts like these get attention. [0] - https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest_3 https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest_3 [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Caf%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Caf%C3%A9 [2] - https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest#Engine https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest#Engine

56 points by tkuraku 4y ago

I recommend using crispy-doom instead of chocolate-doom to play. https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Crispy_Doom https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Crispy_Doom

qbasic_forever 4y ago
The latest dsda-doom with its new indexed lighting emulation is awesome. It's fully hardware accelerated but the indexed lighting mode almost perfectly emulates the lighting and palette effects of the original software renderer. Basically you get the best of both worlds, super fast framerate and high resolution but classic looks. It's worth checking out: https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom

Sebguer 4y ago

There's a modern version available for free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/804270/Chex_Quest_HD/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/804270/Chex_Quest_HD/

tkuraku 4y ago
Unfortunately that doesn't work on Linux.
- delecti 4y ago
  Given its ProtonDB rating, it seems likely it'd run well enough. https://www.protondb.com/app/804270 https://www.protondb.com/app/804270

tobinfekkes 4y ago

This is unexpected and amazing, because I was just showing my wife this game a couple weeks ago. I remember getting it in a Chex cereal box as a kid, and my brothers and I played it a ton. Then in high school, I stumbled upon a new disc copy of it at Re-PC (computer recycler in Seattle). Then I stumbled upon it again just recently on Steam. I can't escape it. HN was the last place I would expect to see this. How funny. It's just as I remember it! And exactly what you would expect for free in a cereal box from the 90s, but in the best way possible.

xwdv 4y ago

Was there ever a multiplayer mod for this game? It was pretty awesome.

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justsomehnguy 4y ago
Of course. https://youtu.be/gbr37vZvoGM?t=41 https://youtu.be/gbr37vZvoGM?t=41

maz1b 4y ago

I just love being teleported to my childhood on HN every so often. Didn't think I'd ever see Chex Quest on here! Also I'm very pleasantly surprised they did a 2020 re-release (?) but of course I only learned about it just now.

CurrentB 4y ago

Wow, I had forgotten until now about this game that I must have got from a cereal box as a child and played for countless hours.

acabal 4y ago

Angry Video Game Nerd has a great video on Chex Quest, in which he concedes that it's actually a surprisingly good game for its time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0y9i5E7nY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0y9i5E7nY

deleted 4y ago
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modriano 4y ago

If you want to play Chex Quest in your browser, it's hosted on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/msdos_Chex_Quest_1996 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Chex_Quest_1996

SeanAnderson 4y ago

This is great :D I played Chex Quest as a kid! I never even played the original DOOM. Crazy how that all worked out.

qbasic_forever 4y ago

Chex Quest wasn't the only Doom promo, I recently learned about Kick soda Doom: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Kick_Attack https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Kick_Attack! It was a one level promotional thing made for a mountain dew soda ripoff. It's really bad, lol.

js2 4y ago

> The game is notable for the fact that it was the first game CD-ROM to be released inside a cereal box. Sales of Chex cereal increased by 295% in incremental volume over base and 48% in volume share during this promotion.[1] Much of the manufacturing cost of the CDs was paid for by America Online. AOL was allowed to include its dial-up online service client on the disc in exchange for this contribution. If you weren't around then this may be hard to believe but I cannot overstate how ubiquitous was the distribution of AOL CD-ROMs. They were everywhere. It felt like you couldn't open a magazine without one falling out. You'd stumble upon them on the sidewalk. AOL must have stamped a billion of the damn things. (Edit: I was afraid I might be exaggerating but apparently it really may have been a billion. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8594049/aol-free-trial-cds https://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8594049/aol-free-trial-cds) About 5 years ago I was pacing the Knoxville marathon and toward the end it was just me and a college student, maybe she was twenty, and somehow I brought up AOL. She'd never heard of it. She'd never heard of CD-ROMs. I was like, so there was this movie called You've Got Mail[1]. She hadn't heard of that either. I felt really old. 1. 1998 movie where AOL is a plot element. If you're up for a romcom that's a nice time capsule of the late 90s, you could do worse. Also has PowerBook G3s and the sound of modems.

chungy 4y ago
Never heard of CD-ROMs? Maybe the term was unfamiliar compared to just CD? I have a hard time believing any young person really hasn't heard of CDs, if not handled them.
- js2 4y ago
  I think she'd heard of CDs but didn't know they could be used for anything other than music.
cobertos 4y ago
Why hasn't anyone tried this today? Or like, with flashdrive or some other modern equivalent? It seems like it would be a great way to get your product to literally everyone if you had the VC money

kelseyfrog 4y ago

Thirteen year old me got incedibly nauseous playing this game. Good times!

ztgasdf 4y ago

I highly recommend that everyone should check out Chex Quest 3[0], created by Charles Jacobi[1], who is the lead artist for the original Chex Quest games. It's a compilation of the first two games with an additional third episode. One minor note is that it was developed to be run on more modern source ports (e.g. G/ZDoom), unlike the original game which ran a modified version of the Final Doom engine.[2] Doom 1/2 has a very rich history and I love to see posts like these get attention. [0] - https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest_3 https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest_3 [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Caf%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Caf%C3%A9 [2] - https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest#Engine https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Chex_Quest#Engine