CHIPS, which celebrates its 24th birthday this year, is the first video games chain to franchise its highly successful formula across the country and now you have the chance to grab your very own shop-in-a-box.

CHIPS started in the mid-1980s at the birth of the video games industry and now has 12 company-owned stores, an award-winning e-commerce site and 16 franchised outlets in Skipton; Stafford; Hartlepool; Arnold; Lytham St Annes; Yeovil; Chester le-Street; Guisborough; Chorlton;  Stockton; Newcastle-Under-Lyme; Ashford; Ormskirk; Dudley; Longton and Market Harborough.

CHIPS and www.chipsworld.co.uk offers games for Playstation 3, PS2, PSP, DS, PlayStation One, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Game Boy, as well as a wide-range of retro games and accessories, both new and second-hand, for all enthusiasts.

All are serviced by an expert team at CHIPS headquarters in Middlesbrough.

With its network of worldwide contacts, CHIPS can offer the latest and widest range of games available, at competitive prices.

The expertise successfully mirrored throughout CHIPS stores and chipsworld.co.uk has been gained over 24 years at the cutting edge of video game technology.

CHIPS stores and www.chipsworld.co.uk are staffed by enthusiastic, professional gamers, ever eager to assist, whatever your favourite – be it platform, fighting, racing, RPG, strategy, simulation or puzzle.