Chip's Challenge

Go Bit Buster!

Chip would do anything for Melinda the Mental Marvel. More than anything because he wanted to join Melinda's exclusive computer club - the Bit Busters. So you can imagine how Chip felt when Melinda sat down next to him in the school cafeteria and offered him membership... on one condition.

Take control of Chip as he does some heavy interfacing with a few interesting puzzles. Melinda will monitor your progress as you enter and work your way through 144 levels of challenging maze-like paths and puzzles. Once you accept the challenge, there's no escape. Monsters, traps and the ticking of the clock all conspire to delete you before a level is completed.

You must ram blocks of soil together to create bridges over water traps, or use them as buffers against cherry bombs. Invisible partitions will impede your progress. Coloured keys will open doors that lead to other keys that will open still more doors! To make it through, you must keep puzzle sequences stored in your memory.

Most levels have a specific number of chips that you must collect before you can progress to the next level. Sometimes you must snatch those chips from under the very noses of deadly bugs who are just aching to take a "byte" out of you!

Well, Chip, are you still up for the challenge? You can't get that Bit Busters T-shirt out of your system, can you? OK buddy, make tracks for level one of Chip's Challenge!

The Game

You have to collect a set amount of chips on every level; not necessarily all of them. In your path are several puzzle parts:

1. Traps
   must be disarmed before you can pass through them. There are various sorts of traps. For example, some hold you prisoner until your time runs out, while others destroy you as soon as you step on them. You can disarm traps with strategic placement of dirt blocks.
2. Force Floor Traps [Conveyor belts]
   propel you with lightning speed from one area to another without allowing you to stop. Sometimes you can use this force to propel you to a desired location. However, most of the time you will need to collect a magnet to neutralise the effect.
3. Fire Traps
   are impassible bonfires laid out to block your progress. Use a fire shield to walk through fire traps.
4. Water Traps
   can be crossed in two ways. Either build a bridge of dirt blocks or have a water shield in your inventory.
5. Ice Traps
   are slippery obstacles that make you slide right past your goal. Cleats are required to be able to walk over ice traps.
6. Monsters
   want to destroy you and will show no mercy. One touch from a monster and you'll cash in your chips.
7. Tanks
   block the way through crucial parts in some levels. Tanks are always linked to trip buttons, so the way around them is to activate the correct trip button so they move out of your way.
8. Thieves
   Touching a thief wipes your inventory of all items. Make sure you use the tools you need to collect microchips before trying to pass a thief.
9. Teleport Squares
   move you to another location in the level. Some squares teleport you in the direction you were facing when you stepped on them. Others teleport you in random directions. Beware! If you step on the only teleport square that is accessible, you will be trapped.
10. Teleport Squares
    move you to another location in the level. Some squares teleport you in the direction you were facing when you stepped on them. Others teleport you in random directions. Beware: if you step on the only teleport square that is accessible, you will be trapped!
11. Toggle Blocks
    are outlined with broken coloured lined. These blocks can be solid or transparent. When the toggle block is solid, you cannot pass through. These blocks are linked to trip buttons. When you activate a trip button, the toggle blocks linked to it will switch to the other stated (Solid or transparent).
12. Microchip Sockets
    are special objects found on most levels. You must pass through a microchip socket to reach the Exit Square, but only after you have collected the required number of microchips for that level.
13. Clone Machines
    discharge fireballs, dirt blocks and other items. Most clone machines are linked to trip buttons. If you wish to start/shop a clone machine, activate the linked trip button.
14. Blue Blocks
    can be real walls or just an illusion. To figure out which a particular block is, try to pass through it. If it is an illusion, it will disappear.

Helpful Items

1. Keys
   open doors. Pick them up to add them to your inventory. To use a key, walk up to a door of the same colour as the key. Most keys will disappear from your inventory when used.
2. Doors
   are opened by keys of the same colour. Once the coloured door is open, it stays open.
3. Microchips
   enable you to pass each level's microchip socket. Most levels have a required number of microchips you must collect before you can pass through the microchip socket to the Exit Square.
4. Exit Squares
   are flashing squares found on every level. Step on an exit square to proceed to the next level. Exit squares are usually blocked by microship sockets.
5. Dirt Blocks
   can be linked together to form bridges over water, pushed against a bomb to explode it harmlessly, or used as blocks against monsters, deadly lightning balls, and other moving obstacles. You can only move one brown dirt block at a time. If you place a dirt block to make a bridge over water, you must stamp down the dirt to turn it into a regular floor square. To do this, step on the block after pushing it into the water.
   
   You may find things hidden under some dirt blocks. Sometimes the things you find are valuable, like microchips. However you may find that a block is covering something unpleasant, such as a fire trap.
6. Trip Buttons
   are linked to toggle blocks, clone machines and other obstacles. A trip button's colour matches the colour of the linked trap or obstacle. For example, moving over a green trip button square will open (or close) all linked green toggle blocks or moving over a red trip button square will cause a red linked clone machine to begin releasing fireballs!
7. Magnets
   neutralize the effect of force floor traps. With a magnet in your inventory, you can walk over a force floor normally.
8. Fire Shields
   neutralize fire. With a fire shield in the inventory, you can walk through fire (but not fireballs).
9. Water Shields
   allow you to walk on water
10. Cleats
    allow you to travel over ice traps without slipping

Note: Magnets, fire shields and cleats stay in your inventory. They do not disappear after they are used.

Game Controls

O - Left, P - Right, Q - Up, A - Down
R - Restart Level, X - Exit Game, 1 - Toggle Music, 2 - Toggle Effects, H/SPACE - Pause/Continue

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