Some of you may have noticed i’ve been a little lax in my birthday announcements this month. There’s just so many of them i figure i’ll do one for all of ‘em unless i get feedback to the contrary. Also, i want to save up the really juicy stuff for the revamp of this site that will present everything in story form. Check out Tom Hall’s site as he linked an article today in The Escapist about Commander Keen.
Here are the birthdays:
10th – DOOM
14th – Commander Keen 1-3
15th – Commander Keen 4-5
23rd – Hyperspace Delivery Boy & Heretic (two ‘H’ games on the same day!)
In case you were wondering about the screenshot, it was referencing a future Keen game we planned on making: Keen 7 – The Universe is Toast! But we started working immediately on Wolfenstein 3D and……..the rest is history.
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I think your numbers are bit messed up, Jon – it should be DOOM’s 15th, CK1-3′s 18th, CK4-5′s 17th and Heretic’s 14th.
(Not sure about HDB, though, and maybe you’re referring to another Heretic there, not Heretic-the-DOOM-spinoff.)
Anyhow, I remember that end screen from way back in the day. Time to install DOSBox and dig out my old Keen disks again to celebrate!
s/Jon/John/
Sorry! I really should get into a habit of previewing and proofreading my comments, I guess.
Hello John, sorry if my english is not perfect, but I just discovered this site, and I would to thank you to have writing the video game history with classics like Doom. I’ll try to make you an anniversary’s artwork for Doom, it deserve it!
Great work, you’re a god for a lot of players!
@schnee: I think John meant the day of release in the month of december
@John: Well, I would like to have a post for any anniversary. All of which are great games and a part of cultural history – they deserve it!
…and of course: Thanks for making them!!
Awesome, the 15th was my birthday.
What do you think of your new 3d face in Risen3d: http://risen3d.newdoom.com/features2.htm ?
heh, happy birthday all those games.
that’s great!
The forums (game talk) are gone? They’re all blank mow…
Agh. I’m extremely late, but Happy 15th to Doom!
For the 10th, I completely removed windows off my other computer and installed DOS, just to play Doom the way it was meant to be.
Agh. I’m extremely late, but Happy 15th to Doom!
For the 10th, I completely removed windows off my other computer and installed DOS, just to play Doom the way it was meant to be.
That was my first completed game on PC. Commandor Keen:Episode one Invasion of Vorticons.
Second was DooM 2 and I was 9.
But I use codes IDDQD, IDKFA and sometimes IDCLIP remember bonus levels with Keen and nazis(IDCLEV 31/32) and the John’s head on final level.
This games allways gonna be on my HDD.
Sorry for my english.
Happy New Year John!
We are not worthy !…
You are a great Symbol that inspire thousand of souls to follow the VideoGame Warriors Path.
Never Surrender John
Thanks a lot !!!!
Hey John – Did you see the excellent piece of fan art Derek Yu did to celebrate DOOM’s birthday?
http://www.derekyu.com/?p=248
Thanks for all the hundreds of hours of great gaming, btw!
hello my name is park jung min
I’m not good at speaking English
your wonderful!!
doom2 first see, I`m 7 years old
It was a really scary moment
Wolfenstein 3D and Doom2 is my favorite game.