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- afeitarse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Appreciated, but why not just post the direct link?:
http://www.glenrhodes.com/flashkeen/tilegame.swf - meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Dopefish FTW!
- jpetersen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21WOOT!!! I played all of the Keen games back in the day. Some of the best classic side-scrolling gaming ever. This is great news.
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Nice. If you want to download it, and a bunch more, I've had this site in my bookmarks forever:
http://www.classicdosgames.com/
it's got a ton of these, you'll be surprised how many you'll remember! - wastern, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11awesome, this is the first platform game I ever played back on my dad's old gateway with Windows 3.1
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I loved cmdr keen. Now I need a flash version of Jill of the Jungle.
- bepcyc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://www.glenrhodes.com/flashkeen/tilepop.html
LARGE version ;) - ForceofNature, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Left arrow = left
Right arrow = right
Up arrow = jump
Down arrow = shoot
Shift = pogo if you have it.
I think thats it - AuAndCs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I wish I had some ice cream!
well...
not really. - bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6!!
Will the good news ever cease today??!
today is the greatest day ever... I might have to sit down with a post election beer and play some keen!
@wastern... your dads gateway was old?? windows 3.1 is old?? tadpole! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Download God of Thunder here: http://www.acid-play.com/download/god-of-thunder/
- bigmansteve, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9http://digg.com/gaming_news/Commander_Keen_Flash_Remake
Better link, larger window. - bitrot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ shibz: "a few months ago I actually found my box full of floppy dicks."
Oops, Freudian slip! - Mome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Where's the sound and music? That was half the fun!
- bantamw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What was nice about Commander Keen is it was one of the first examples of decent shareware games, a model which iD followed for years, and it did them proud. Get addicted to the game and if you want any more you need to buy the rest. Was genius, but the initial game needed to be good for it to work, and Commander Keen was.
I remember loading this onto my old Apricot Xen-i with a EGA monitor and loving it!
Didn't they do a 3D version too? - VanceXT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3God of Thunder was classic, and Jill of the Jungle was hot. Throw Stunts and Stellar 7 on that list while we're reliving the life.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.play.vg/games/keen/commanderkeen.swf
- jomcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In the DOS game it was Ctrl to jump, Alt for pogo and Ctrl + Alt to fire. Me and my 286 had some great times with that game.
I had to cheat to finish keen 2 & 3 using dog mode. Which I later discovered was GOD mode - duh! - shlemielo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I have no idea why I used to like this game so much. My cousin and I used to get in fights over the 5" floppy (heh). I punched the hell out of him when he decided to hide it one day.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I don't understand why you guys like Commander Keen so much. Apogee (the company which made this game) made so many better games, like Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure (the green alien that jumps around in a Sonic style environment) I enjoyed it so much more than Keen.
And there is also Kingdom of Kroz, the original Duke Nukem (not the newer 3D version), and Wolfenstein 3D (the predecessor to Doom)
Click on http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html to get more games from this company. - capnarrr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2captain comic was great too. took me forever to figure out the right path from tandy - moon - moonbase - beehive and back to get all the treasures. blastola cola!
a couple other dos platform games i really enjoyed:
jetpack - basically lode runner with a jetpack and different enemies
jill of the jungle - Synoptic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, that was fun for two minutes of nostalgia. Don't think I have the patience to run through the whole game again, but it's a cool flashback just the same.
That was Apogee Games, right? - dan0368, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, its been such a long time since hearing the words Commander Keen. Any idea if the sequels are around too?
EDIT: Some more Keen-goodness for everyone.
http://www.commander-keen.com/ - PeteyEks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2God of Thunder! That game is quite awesome, you all should check it out!
- tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use to play this on my Dad's PC way back too. He's also the one who showed me how to play Wolfenstein 3D.
- AuAndCs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow.
just wow. - SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've played all the commander keen games. That was the sweetest game we ever got for our 386SX. After that it was wolfenstein and then doom and then duke3d. :P
- bantamw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Apogee was the distributor, but iD was the developer of Commander Keen!
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh man I forgot all about that one. That was another one of my favorites!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for letting me know that you're a filthy spammer! Blocked!
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1doh. god mode doesn't work.
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about the map? You were supposed to have choices about which level you played when. Still nothing beats a kid fighting the invading vorticons while looking for the parts of his broken "bean with bacon" megarocket, including the vacuum cleaner and his dads hooch. (Also a battery and a joystick).
The end of Keen 3 was funny, with the remaining vorticons, specifically the ones you hadn't slaughtered, prasing you. - dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oooh, that doesn't bind it to a certain ratio, so you can see the bad guys before they see you. Not that it helps much...
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh man that brought back memories...
I've played roughly every second one of the games in the categories I went though...
(Am I really that old?) - hansamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to play Keen games when I was like 7 years old. They were so much fun back then. I remember I used to play the original so much, and then one day found one of the sequels at some random computer store, and played that a ton too. So classic.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure was a classic...
does anyone remember "Captain Comic"? definitely the prototype..
These games seemed richer somehow than games i see today... maybe I'm being nostalgic, but I remember these games were entire worlds you visited... - Rimrose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wOOt! Commander Keen was awesome! I had recently found some way to play it, but then I got a new computer because the old one went byebye and I couldn't remember the site it was on. This is awesome!
- MikeEFresh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it was C + T + Space
- pawas01, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1A very good game. I love it.
http://timberlineshoes.insanejournal.com/ - AZNundercover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember playing Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy and playing the pong minigame that came as an extra.
- zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cosmo was great but your statement about Apogee making CK is wrong. Apogee only published CK, iD software wrote it. Most (all?) of the games Apogee published were written by other developers. Apogee had the equipment to mass produce floppy discs for the 'full version' of the shareware games and handle orders and shipments, something most small developers couldn't do on their own.
Later Apogee sort of folded into their 3DRealms subcompany after the Internet made floppy disc games irrelevant (and of course 3DRealms inability to get Duke Nukem Forever out in turn made them irrelevant). - masgaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Haha, I thought it was dog mode too! Didn't have to cheat though, just took a lot of time. Anyone else have a poster of the Galactic Alphabet on their wall?
- hakukaji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i want to see some space quest,king's quest,police quest flash love
- stellamaris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can remember playing this game at a friend's house when I was very little (like 2nd grade) when computers became more mainstream and people started actually having PCs in their home. I remember one day I came over and she was online. I yelled at her, saying "Why didn't you TELL me you guys got the internet!" We then sat for eight hours waiting for it to load.
- masgaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone wonder what the producers were smoking when they came out with Keen Dreams? I mean seriously, boobus tubus?
- imsteve22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember the good old days when my dad brought commander home on a floppy disk. I use to play it forever, and i still play it every once in a while. Playing it online just isn't the same.
- SaxxonPike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I played the hell out of that pong minigame way back when.
- LostInTheWired, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was a Megatraveller fan. Pshht. Beats Keen out any day. I loved those open ended space exploration/pirating/buisness/trading/bounty hunting games.
- unversed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Uggg, that wolf thing used to scare me back when I played this as a kid, and scared the hell out of me again. What can I say, it was a childhood fear :P
- cyberfelon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow, I posted that over a year ago now. Time goes way too fast :(
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