10 Video Games That Had No Right Being This Good - Commenter's Edition
5. Chex Quest
The concept of licensed games certainly doesn’t fill gamers with confidence. The concept of a game based on a breakfast cereal, you’d think, would be even less auspicious. Nonetheless, it happened, and it was pulled off with aplomb.
In the wake of the (continuing to this day) controversy regarding the rip-and-tear gore of Doom, there was only one logical course for Digital Café to take: spin the beloved Ultimate Doom, famous for being even more delightfully horrific than the original release, into something entirely different.
How different? Well, Chex Quest is a blood-free romp starring the Chex Warrior, whose weapons are teleportation devices of sorts rather than implements of mass bloody death. The whole thing still revolves around an incursion by lots of creatures, but the snotty Flemoids are far less threatening than Cacodemons, Barons of Hell and other such ghastly Doom-dwellers.
Chex Quest is a relic from a bygone age when fantastic things were provided as gifts in cereal boxes, and perhaps one of the greatest marketing endeavors gaming has ever seen. It's fun in its own right, against all odds.