RARE UNRELEASED NES Prototype EPROM Card CHIP'S CHALLENGE DEMO NTSC 1992 NINTENDO from IMAGES SOFTWARE

This very rare unreleased game prototype cartridge was sourced from a now defunct publisher's licensing and purchasing department.

The Images Software sticker on this cartridge is dated 1992/05/18 and this is a NTSC version related to the Summer Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Chicago (May 28th-31st, 1992).

There is a 6113B1 type Nintendo lockout chip. Even though this cartridge is now 22 years old, the EPROM chip still holds its data and the game works.

The EPROM has its genuine CHIPS CHALLENGE sticker.

This is a very rare cartridge since the game was never released for NES. See also www.nesworld.com/article.php?system=nes&data=nesunreleased

Some press coverage of this unreleased game exists:

•In the April 1991 GamePro Pronews Report coverage of the Winter CES (pg 74): "Some other games worthy of note for the NES: ... Chip's Challenge..."
•"In this familiar computer title Chip the Whiz must collect the necessary computer chips to solve a series of mind-bending puzzles in more than 100 different levels. Available Fall '91"  - GamePro Sept 1991 review of the Summer CES.
•"Commonly known to Lynx players, now NES players will have their chance at this puzzle title. All you have to do is to get finish a maze, but a variety of methods are needed."  - EGM25 (pg 114).
•"Chip's Challenge for NES. Bullet-Proof Software is planning to release Chip's Challenge - originally an Atari Lynx game - for Nintendo. Chip's Challenge is a strategy-puzzle game in which a boy named Chip must solve a series of puzzles to earn entrance to the Bitbusters Computer Club. Bullet-Proof Software says Chip's Challenge should be available sometime this fall."  - Game Players Magazine March 1991 (pg 89).
•$10.00 / $42.99: buy/sell prices  - Beyond Gaming #4 c1991 (pg 11). 

The cartridge offered in this auction has not been dumped and it's actually a playable DEMO version with a level skip function which you would not find in any retail product. The game language is English.

Chip's Challenge is a top-down tile-based puzzle video game created in 1989 by Chuck Sommerville originally for the hand-held Atari Lynx. Chip's Challenge was then later ported to multiple formats including the Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, DOS, and Windows, included in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack and Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack (the last of which was written by Tony Krueger in 1991). Microsoft licensed Chip's Challenge from Epyx to write a DOS and Windows version of the game; while porting the game, the logic was slightly changed from the original version. It has also been converted to the TI-84+ calculator and the TI-89 Titanium. The original game was designed and coded by Chuck Sommerville, who also made about a third of the levels.[3] Most of the conversions from the Atari Lynx original to other formats were carried out by Images Software in the UK.

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The build version is V0.924B and there are 136 levels.

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