{"id":111759,"date":"2020-04-19T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/361438"},"modified":"2020-04-19T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:50:00","slug":"video-game-deep-cuts-chex-quest-chex-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/19\/video-game-deep-cuts-chex-quest-chex-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Game Deep Cuts: Chex Quest&#8230; Chex Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i><small> The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra\u0092s community.<br \/>The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. <\/small><\/i><\/strong> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff0e501c-35c9-4942-a520-1aee3222eef3_800x306.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/ff0e501c-35c9-4942-a520-1aee3222eef3_800x306.jpeg&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:306,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;bytes&quot;:58163,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/video-game-deep-cuts-chex-quest-chex-out.jpg\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[Do you know who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chex_Quest\">these superheroes<\/a>&nbsp;are? Did you expect them to return?]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re back again, and thanks to those who made additional formatting comments on the revamped&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/videogamedeepcuts.substack.com\/\">Video Game Deep Cuts<\/a>. A couple more tweaks this week, and it\u2019s approaching its final form!<\/p>\n<p>As it evolves, there\u2019s a few shifts. For example, a minority of the links are now to \u2018cool\/interesting stuff\u2019 and notable new games, rather than longform articles or videos. Like, uhh, Chex Quest. Oh no, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/limitedrungames.com\/\">$218 fan bundle<\/a>&nbsp;sold out just as I was finishing this newsletter. Sorry, folks!<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Simon, curator<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The Current: Recent Games In The Spotlight<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F207633f2-ad30-42b3-a400-490bf0169c07_800x273.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/207633f2-ad30-42b3-a400-490bf0169c07_800x273.jpeg&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:273,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;bytes&quot;:59242,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/video-game-deep-cuts-chex-quest-chex-out-1.jpg\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Culture: Game Culture &amp; Deep Dives<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F05b2122c-64ab-4a32-952c-b5cddb44d360_800x264.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/05b2122c-64ab-4a32-952c-b5cddb44d360_800x264.jpeg&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:264,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;bytes&quot;:43410,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/video-game-deep-cuts-chex-quest-chex-out-2.jpg\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Past: Game History<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbee9ee1d-0196-41cf-8c04-301619b306fb_800x263.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/bee9ee1d-0196-41cf-8c04-301619b306fb_800x263.jpeg&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:263,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;bytes&quot;:54944,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/video-game-deep-cuts-chex-quest-chex-out-3.jpg\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Other Goodness<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c548474-2230-4956-8a17-486eb5bb88fd_800x311.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/4c548474-2230-4956-8a17-486eb5bb88fd_800x311.jpeg&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:311,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;bytes&quot;:64256,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/video-game-deep-cuts-chex-quest-chex-out-4.jpg\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope you liked this one, and see you next week!<br \/> Simon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra\u0092s community.The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. 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Did you expect them to return?] We\u2019re back again, and thanks to those who made additional formatting comments on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}