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First post, by general_vagueness

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This doesn't actually have to do with getting a game working, but it does involve getting a game.
There was this game that may or may not have been from MS on an old computer I had (it's long gone). It had balls that bounced around and you were supposed to put them in smaller and smaller spaces. The balls were black and white (both on each one) and they spun and the background was gray and had lines on it (like graph paper). You would use the mouse to make an expanding divider that was horizontal or vertical.
If anyone knows where I can get it or even what it's called, I'd be very appreciative if you told me.
I put this here because it wasn't being answered in List the PC games that you have beaten and that was about beating PC games anyway.
If I can get Chip's Challenge for free, well, please.

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Reply 1 of 5, by wildweasel

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The game is called JezzBall and was part of one of Microsoft's Entertainment Pack collections. However, you can find several remakes of it online.

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Reply 2 of 5, by leileilol

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You may be also interested in Qix and Xonix.

general_vagueness wrote:

If I can get Chip's Challenge for free, well, please.

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Reply 3 of 5, by general_vagueness

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Thanks, but I really want the levels that vexed me so much a few years ago, but not enough to buy it or "break" the "law".

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Thank you very much; I haven't had much success getting a free version I like, but I've just found one I can live with that they call "Wildball"; I also don't feel like buying this or "stealing" it.

I say if they put the software out there and they don't sell it anymore, it should be fair game, but it's not, and I already have NES ROMs on my system (PC games are one thing, you're not taking my Nintendo away from me).

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Reply 4 of 5, by leileilol

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general_vagueness wrote:

@leileilol
Thanks, but I really want the levels that vexed me so much a few years ago, but not enough to buy it or "break" the "law".

Well that's too bad then, you must not want the game so much if you don't want to buy it. We do not do warez here. Chips Challenge is not a free game.

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Reply 5 of 5, by general_vagueness

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Well, like I said I don't intend to "break the law" just for Chip's Challenge, and buying it would mean hunting down a legal copy, and I don't have much money, and I think I should be playing the games I have, so thanks, I'll finish "Doom Collectors' Edition", Zelda, Castlevania, and StarTropics II first. 😀

Also, I noticed the deviantart link; does that mean you drew your avatar, and if not, where did you get it, and either way, is it independent or based on an anime?

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