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Chex Quest 3

Derek Yu — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:03:00 +0000

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!)

"Chex Quest 3" by fivedollar

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:40:53 +0000

finally, my life has validation.

"Chex Quest 3" by Benny

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:18:24 +0000

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

"Chex Quest 3" by Snow

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:12:31 +0000

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.

"Chex Quest 3" by Hooker with a BeViS

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:59:54 +0000

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? =/

"Chex Quest 3" by Cybolt

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:06:53 +0000

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.

"Chex Quest 3" by Veon

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:04:53 +0000

Chex Quest was my first FPS, oh the nostalgia~

This is like getting a sequel to childhood.

"Chex Quest 3" by ChrisL

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:03:27 +0000

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.

"Chex Quest 3" by BishX

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:21:50 +0000

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.

"Chex Quest 3" by harkejuice

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:51:56 +0000

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

BOOT SPORK!

"Chex Quest 3" by Rolf Soldaat

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:27:19 +0000

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.”

"Chex Quest 3" by Moosader

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:50:31 +0000

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

"Chex Quest 3" by Jabberwock

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:50:00 +0000

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.

"Chex Quest 3" by Taylor

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:26:48 +0000

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).

"Chex Quest 3" by haowan

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:41:03 +0000

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

"Chex Quest 3" by Alehkhs

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:22:09 +0000

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

"Chex Quest 3" by wormguy

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:27:37 +0000

Oh. My. God.

"Chex Quest 3" by BishX

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:07:46 +0000

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

"Chex Quest 3" by diki

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:56:14 +0000

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

"Chex Quest 3" by BishX

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:53:13 +0000

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.

"Chex Quest 3" by McAndrews

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:02:46 +0000

I am actually crying with happiness.

"Chex Quest 3" by MDK

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:33:28 +0000

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..!!

"Chex Quest 3" by Lupus

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:04:16 +0000

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

"Chex Quest 3" by BeamSplashX

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:29:23 +0000

Bish… that’s just not the Chex way!

"Chex Quest 3" by BishX

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:02:38 +0000

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’?

"Chex Quest 3" by Elmernite

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:35:01 +0000

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