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Chip's Challenge 1, or CC1 for short, is the original level set released on the Atari Lynx in 1989, Windows Entertainment Pack 4 (WEP4) in 1992, and later with the Best of Windows Entertainment Pack (BOWEP) in 1994. It consists of 149 (148 in the Lynx version) levels which Chip must complete.

As these were the first Chip's Challenge levels, they begin by introducing the functions of the tiles in the lesson levels, then tie them together in Nuts and Bolts, and add new elements only sparingly from then on out. There are very few levels of high difficulty in CC1 compared to CCLP2 or CCLP3, as knowledge of puzzle design and game mechanics were comparatively primitive.

The levels were designed in approximately three parts: 1/3 of them by Chuck Sommerville, another third by a professional puzzle designer (Bill Darrah), and the rest by Chuck's team of programmers and playtesters: James Donald, M. Peter Engelbrite, Victoria Hanson, RG Goudy, Stephen Jungels, Scott Nelson, and Pete Wierzbicki. The initials of Pete W. are left on Block Factory; Bill is known to have designed Castle Moat and Chuck On the Rocks.

Among aficionados of this type of puzzle game, the windows version (usually referred to as the MS version) of Chip's Challenge (usually referring only to CC1 in this case) is famous for its glitches and busted levels. This was a result of changed mechanics from Lynx to MS and little playtesting in the MS version. Although there were many levels made easier, such as Scoundrel, some levels became far more difficult; the level that would become the Spirals corruption had to be changed because the walkers would spread far quicker under MS rules, and levels with extensive use of hot blocks such as Block N Roll and Special became frustrating trial and error challenges to solve due to the inability to block slap.

List of CC1 levels, in chronological order[]

  1. Lesson 1
  2. Lesson 2
  3. Lesson 3
  4. Lesson 4
  5. Lesson 5
  6. Lesson 6
  7. Lesson 7
  8. Lesson 8
  9. Nuts and Bolts
  10. Brushfire
  11. Trinity
  12. Hunt
  13. Southpole
  14. Teleblock
  15. Elementary
  16. Cellblocked
  17. Nice Day
  18. Castle Moat
  19. Digger
  20. Tossed Salad
  21. Iceberg
  22. Forced Entry
  23. Blobnet
  24. Oorto Geld
  25. Blink
  26. Chchchips
  27. Go with the Flow
  28. Ping Pong
  29. Arcticflow
  30. Mishmesh
  31. Knot
  32. Scavenger Hunt
  33. On the Rocks
  34. Cypher
  35. Lemmings
  36. Ladder
  37. Seeing Stars
  38. Sampler
  39. Glut
  40. Floorgasborg
  41. I.C. You
  42. Beware of Bug
  43. Lock Block
  44. Refraction
  45. Monster Lab
  46. Three Doors
  47. Pier Seven
  48. Mugger Square
  49. Problems
  50. Digdirt
  51. I Slide
  52. The Last Laugh
  53. Traffic Cop
  54. Grail
  55. Potpourri
  56. Deepfreeze
  57. Strange Maze
  58. Loop Around
  59. Hidden Danger
  60. Scoundrel
  61. Rink
  62. Slo Mo
  63. Block Factory
  64. Spooks
  65. Amsterdam
  66. Victim
  67. Chipmine
  68. Eeny Miny Moe
  69. Bounce City
  70. Nightmare
  71. Corridor
  72. Reverse Alley
  73. Morton
  74. Playtime
  75. Steam
  76. Four Plex
  77. Invincible Champion
  78. Force Square
  79. Drawn and Quartered
  80. Vanishing Act
  81. Writers Block
  82. Socialist Action
  83. Up the Block
  84. Wars
  85. Telenet
  86. Suicide
  87. Cityblock
  88. Spirals
  89. Block Buster
  90. Playhouse
  91. Jumping Swarm
  92. Vortex
  93. Roadsign
  94. Now You See It
  95. Four Square
  96. Paranoia
  97. Metastable to Chaos
  98. Shrinking
  99. Catacombs
  100. Colony
  101. Apartment
  102. Icehouse
  103. Memory
  104. Jailer
  105. Short Circuit
  106. Kablam
  107. Balls O Fire
  108. Block Out
  109. Torturechamber
  110. Chiller
  111. Time Lapse
  112. Fortune Favours The
  113. Open Question
  114. Deception
  115. Oversea Delivery
  116. Block Buster II
  117. The Marsh
  118. Miss Direction
  119. Slide Step
  120. Alphabet Soup
  121. Perfect Match
  122. Totally Fair
  123. The Prisoner
  124. Firetrap
  125. Mixed Nuts
  126. Block N Roll
  127. Skelzie
  128. All Full
  129. Lobster Trap
  130. Ice Cube
  131. Totally Unfair
  132. Mix Up
  133. Blobdance
  134. Pain
  135. Trust Me
  136. Doublemaze
  137. Goldkey
  138. Partial Post
  139. Yorkhouse
  140. Icedeath
  141. Underground
  142. Pentagram
  143. Stripes?
  144. Fireflies
  145. Thanks to...
  146. Cake Walk
  147. Force Field
  148. Mind Block
  149. Special

Top 10 CC1 players[]

  • Melinda score - 5,977,740; +8 is possible on Blobnet.
  • Highest possible bold score - 5,977,660
  1. David Stolp - 5,977,610
  2. John Lewis - 5,977,580
  3. Andrew Bennett - 5,977,510
  4. Andrew Gapic - 5,977,480
  5. James Anderson - 5,977,450
  6. Evan Dummit - 5,977,400
  7. Pekka Lassila - 5,977,140
  8. Larry Jackson - 5,977,120
  9. Paul Gilbert - 5,977,100
  10. Jeffrey Bardon - 5,977,020



















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