Chex Quest 3

Posted by Derek Yu Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:03:00 GMT

Chex Quest 3

Wow. 10 years since the incomplete Chex Quest 3 beta was released on Digital Café’s website, Charles Jacobi (the original Chex Quest artist) has finally finished off this epic FPS trilogy! Chex Quest, a total conversion of Doom, was the first video game to be released in a cereal box, and garnered a relatively large cult following.

I don’t know about you, but I miss the days when video games and cereal made sense. When LIFE made sense.

Chex Quest 3 contains zero percent of your daily nutrition requirements. However, it does contain upgraded versions of both Chex Quest 1 and Chex Quest 2, as Episodes 1 and 2. It also runs off the fancy-shmancy ZDoom engine (but can, and should, be played as a standalone game).

(Thanks, NWOGBBV!)

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  1. Valkyrie said about 1 hour later:

    Ho

    ly

    Shit.

    I loved the first Chex Quest.

  2. BMcC said about 1 hour later:

    Whoa, I remember this! Up until now I had simply written it off as the fevered imaginings of a troubled child – something never to be spoken of again. But it’s truly, actually real!

    Today… I am set free.

  3. BMcC said about 1 hour later:

    …

    I might have to ban myself if I keep this stuff up.

  4. Trotim said about 1 hour later:

    Nooo! Your comments are truly beautiful.

  5. Alehkhs said about 2 hours later:

    0_0 I’ve been waiting for this day…

    ::Revs up Super Bootspork::

    The only good Flemoid is a zorched Flemoid!

  6. toastie said about 2 hours later:

    NO

    FUCKING

    WAY

    !

  7. Lurker said about 4 hours later:

    I should point out that you’re better off running this as a standalone game. I’ve tested it in both ZDoom and the unofficial GZDoom, and neither one natively supports the Chex Quest rule-altering code. He did some bizarre back-door setting changes to get it to work =P

  8. cecil said about 5 hours later:

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

    YES YES YESSSS!

    i remember when i got this in my cereal :’(

  9. !CE-9 said about 6 hours later:

    “I don’t know about you, but I miss the days when video games and cereal made sense. When LIFE made sense.”

    fucking fuck yeah.

  10. Elmernite said about 10 hours later:

    This is one of the happiest days of my life! Chex Quest was the first first person shooter I ever played. It Rocked! -Elmernite

  11. BishX said about 10 hours later:

    So, since this game is being released outside of Ralston’s influence, does it let you actually kill the enemies instead of ‘transporting them to their own dimension’?

  12. BeamSplashX said about 10 hours later:

    Bish… that’s just not the Chex way!

  13. Lupus said about 11 hours later:

    This is awesome! I loved Chex Quest when I was a kid.

  14. MDK said about 12 hours later:

    HOLY FUCK I FORGOT ABOUT THIS GAME but I fuckind LOVED IT. I remember the sludge and.. holy shit. The giant level.. with the boxes.. the memories..!!

  15. McAndrews said about 12 hours later:

    I am actually crying with happiness.

  16. BishX said about 13 hours later:

    In episode 1, level 2 (Storage Area), I’m having some weird clipping glitches near a ‘Power Lift’ in a teleported area to the east side of the map. (Accessed by the west-most teleporter off of the main room). Anyone else had this happen? I might just have to skip this level with a cheat, I suppose.

  17. diki said about 13 hours later:

    had the same glitch; but the level can be completed regardless of that.

  18. BishX said about 13 hours later:

    Oh, okay. I just assumed I was stuck. Thanks! I wonder if this will come up more in Ep1 and Ep2…

  19. wormguy said about 14 hours later:

    Oh. My. God.

  20. Alehkhs said about 15 hours later:

    BishX and others: I wrote Mr. Jacobi about the clipping issue (a missing texture). It is now fixed, and the download is updated on the ChexQuest.org forums

  21. haowan said about 20 hours later:

    I’ve no idea what this is, but I think it’s awesome that it’s making so many people happy.

  22. Taylor said about 20 hours later:

    Just seeing this article made my day so much brighter. Can’t believe I had the patience to actually complete Chex Quest back when it came out (IN MY CEREAL).

  23. Jabberwock said 1 day later:

    Holy crap. The childhood memories around that first Chex Quest game… I haven’t even thought about it in years.

    I’ve got to play this.

  24. Moosader said 1 day later:

    TIG should produce cereal, and give out games in it.

  25. Rolf Soldaat said 1 day later:

    Wow. How often can you say: “I was saving the intergalactic federation of cereal the other day, and I got attacked by some robotic slime monsters. I was all out of zorch, so I had to chain-spork them before they could get through my cereal armor. Good thing I recently ate a supercharge breakfast.”

  26. harkejuice said 2 days later:

    genious marketing, I ate chex ceral for half my childhood cause of chex quest 1-3 (cookie crisp was the other half)

    BOOT SPORK!

  27. BishX said 2 days later:

    I beat all three episodes yesterday for the first time. This new episode is definitely a worthy successor. It beats the crap out of the first two in terms of level design. Lots of good, clean fun. Awesome job.

  28. ChrisL said 3 days later:

    My friends look at me like I’m crazy when I start talking about game.

    Of course, I do tend to get fanatic about anything that involves spork based weapons.

  29. Veon said 3 days later:

    Chex Quest was my first FPS, oh the nostalgia~

    This is like getting a sequel to childhood.

  30. Cybolt said 3 days later:

    I still remember the time when I begged my parents to buy me a box of Chex since it came with this game. A few short years later (and a Chex addiction to boot), the game has come back! Time to go fire up the game.

  31. Hooker with a BeViS said 3 days later:

    Is it too much to ask to expect it to come with plastic figurines? ..even with the kind that gets stuck to your throat when you accidentally swallow one with a spoonfull of cereal? =/

  32. Snow said 3 days later:

    According to Wikipedia, there’s also a Chex Quest 4, but the author isn’t releasing it yet. Anywayz, pretty cool. Wish I would have gotten the first game via cereal box.

  33. Benny said 5 days later:

    I still have four or five sealed Chex Quest CDs lying around somewhere.

  34. fivedollar said 5 days later:

    finally, my life has validation.

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