Being as how this is my site,
you can read about me at the 'About Us' page . Here I'll explain my
relationship with little Chip.
About 10 years ago I developed
an obsession for Nintendo games, mostly RPG's such as
Zelda, Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior. Folks kept
telling me how much better the games that were available
on PC's were, so I started to break down. I had
been working at MIT on electronic spread sheets for
years, but was clueless when it came to PC's . (phobic
actually)
When I finally broke down
completely in March of 1996 and let my husband buy me a
PC from Gateway, it was as foreign to me as all that
stuff that's under the hood of my car. Determined to join
the 90's, I learned what a desktop was, learned to move a
mouse around and click on little pictures everywhere, got
to know just about every systems support person at
Gateway on a buddy basis and eventually found this
'little' game called Chips Challenge that Gateway had so
kindly pre-installed for me.
I was hooked immediately,
telling myself and my family I was just using Chip's
Challenge to 'get better' at learning to control that
darn mouse thing. Once I hit level 9, the graph paper
came out and I never looked back.
Level 25 was driving me nutz,
so I signed up as an msn member, with the sole purpose of
trying to find help with Chip's Challenge. Clumsily I
surfed around within the Microsoft network, a woman with
a mission, and my persistence paid off. I finally found a
bulletin board devoted to the Microsoft Entertainment
pack games and there within I found folks talking about
Chip's Challenge! Yes! Help at last! I must have
read every message that had ever been posted on that
board about Chip's Challenge, carefully printing each one
out and saving them in a special folder I created just
for Chip's hints. I continued to save all hints I found
and ended up with a formidable list of hints. It was this
compulsive little habit I developed that resulted in my
being named the "Keeper of the Memories"
among the Charter Chipsters, a name I accept with great
pride.
I was finally out of level 25
and was also a full fledge fan of those helpful folks on
the board. I could almost see Alice, Christina, Maybelle,
John , Barbara and the others on the other side of
my screen when I posted my various pleas for help. Since
that fateful day, I have become much more familiar
with Cyberspace and love surfing the net. I' became
absorbed in some On-line games such as the Broken Line
,Netwits and Scrawl. But I've always found my way home to
Chip's and the board.My current score on Chip's is shown
up top, but there are still many levels I need to 'go
bold' on. (That's Charter Chipsterese for hitting the top
posted score for a level) .
I plan to be playing with Chip
for a long time to come yet, especially considering all
the new level highs that Ruben and Kevin have been
creating for us. ;-) It's a great game and the
folks who love to play it are greater still.
   
not
that we're counting or anything, but...  . (Since 6-02-98) :)
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