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+chexquest (Chex Quest 1 and 2, first-person shooter games)
+
+Chex Quest is an award-winning promotional game created by Digital
+Cafe and released in 1996, utilizing the Doom engine. The player is
+embodied as Chex Warrior, a hero attempting to rescue captured Chex
+people from evil slime creatures known as Flemoids who have invaded
+the Intergalactic Federation of Cereals' mining outpost on the planet
+Bazoik.
+
+The game was made available inside boxes of Chex cereal. It
+featured five levels. Because the market for the cereal consisted
+largely of children, the game was made to be deliberately non-violent:
+for example, the enemies in the game are not killed, but are instead
+transported back to their home dimension.
+
+Chex Quest 2: Flemoids Take Chextropolis is the second installment
+in the Chex Quest series, released in 1997. It is an add-on to the
+original, as the first Chex Quest is required to play it.
+
+To play the games, you will need a compatible Doom engine installed.
+The recommended engines are gzdoom, zdoom, and crispy-doom. You can
+also try odamex, prboom-plus, doomretro, or skulltag, but they're not
+100% compatible. You won't need any .wad files from any of the Doom
+games, since Chex Quest is a total conversion.
+
+The package includes both games, wrapper scripts to launch them from
+the command line, and desktop entries to launch them from the KDE or
+XFCE menu.
+
+See also: games/chexquest3, for the last game in the series.