Chex Quest

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Chex Quest, a non-violent first-person shooter video game created in 1996 and released in 1997 by Digital Café, was a video game originally intended as a Chex cereal promotion aimed at children aged 6–9 and up. It is a total conversion of the more explicitly violent video game Doom (specifically The Ultimate Doom version of the game). Chex Quest won both a Golden EFFIE Award for Advertising Effectiveness and Golden Reggie Award for Promotional Achievement in 1998. It is known today for having been the first video game ever to be included as a cereal box prize. The game's cult following has been described as being composed of unusually devoted fans of an advertising vehicle from a bygone age.

In 2019, General Mills re-released Chex Quest, as well as its previously unofficial 2008 sequel, and produced a mini-documentary available on YouTube.

From Wikipedia's article Chex Quest, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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