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Kevin is
our
newest Charter Chipster and a wonderful addition to our
group.
Kevin's
Total Chip's Score as of 3/27/99 : 5,973,510
Currently
an Information Systems professional specializing in
Windows NT Networks, I attended the University of
Rochester ( www.rochester.edu ) and majored in Electrical
Engineering.
The
picture is me with my new daughter, Dana. I live in
the Atlanta area with my wife, daughter, step-son and two
dogs. The dogs are Shelby, a Shetland Sheepdog
(also known as a Sheltie), and Beatty (short for
Beethoven), a Jack Russell Terrier.
Chips
background:
I found
Chips while working as a System Administrator in a
Windows 3.1 environment. It had already been
installed on the computer of the person before me.
I began playing more and more until I finally finished
the game about 3 months later! I was always so glad
when the game let me skip a tough level, and I began to
keep track of the passwords. Oddly enough, I only
found level 145 by accident - the person before me had
been named "TONY", and I was trying everything
I could think of to get to that level! I finished
with a score somewhere over 5 million.Since then, I
changed jobs and got hold of another copy of Chips.
Of course, I left my ENTPACK.INI file at the old job, and
I didn't feel like playing for all the passwords
again. I had Internet access by this time, so I did
a search on "Chip's Challenge" and
"Code" and found some sites with level
codes. That saved some time getting started again,
but one of those sites was the "Chip's Plus"
site created by Alice Voith and made so great by all the
Charter Chipsters. The times on the high score list
were a great challenge to me - I knew I could get at
least 5.587 million plus, so I set up an Excel
spreadsheet and began to reach for the top. I got up
around 5.968 million by October of 1997, when Alice got
busy and the site wasn't updated until April of
1998. I set a few high scores in that time, and was
anxiously awaiting the new High score update. My
first high score was level 35, where I first got a high,
only to find that I had been preceded by LimoJohn.
I worked harder and got beyond the new high score, and
just kept pressing until I churned out the 570 that still
stands today. That lit the fire under me that there
were still high scores to be made, in spite of the almost
unbelievable scores I was seeing. Of course, once
the site was updated, I discovered that Ruben had found
his way to the Chips corner of the world, and many, many
high scores would fall from that one simple event!My
current score is shown up top, and I have several big
gaps to make up in the "random" levels.
Good
Luck with The Quest!!
   
not
that we're counting or anything, but...  . (Since 6-02-98) :)
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