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Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge

The ultimate game for the budding genius! Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge takes the humour and brilliance of the popular cartoon into the ancient world of the battle board and turns it into a whole new…

29 October 2002

Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge is a puzzle developed by Virtucraft Studios, released 29 October 2002 on Game Boy Advance.

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What Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge is

Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge is a puzzle game developed by Virtucraft Studios and released in 2002. It was published by BAM! Entertainment. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The ultimate game for the budding genius! Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge takes the humour and brilliance of the popular cartoon into the ancient world of the battle board and turns it into a whole new experience. Play as Dexter, Dee Dee, Mandark or Major Glory and match your wits against your opponent to determine who is the true genius! Winning moves are rewarded with funny animations in the style of the cartoon series. Play against your favourite characters or with friends on the multiplayer link! Chess is more fun than ever with Dexter's Laboratory!
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How it plays

Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Dexter's Laboratory series

Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge is the ninth of 20 entries we hold in the Dexter's Laboratory series. The next entry was Dexter's Lab: Dee Dee's Moon Squad in 2002.

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What it launched against

Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge launched on 29 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and TimeSplitters 2.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, TimeSplitters 2.

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When did Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge come out?
Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge was released on 29 October 2002 for Game Boy Advance.

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