Posts Tagged ‘Commander Keen’
Happy 14th Birthday, DOOM!
It's that time of year again; time to raise a toast to the venerable DOOM. Blue's News has a nice comment about DOOM. Also, check out DoomWorld for the official site celebration. I don't really have anything new to say except that working on DOOM was still one of the true highlights of my gaming career. Until you actually work on something as [...]
Happy Birthday, Keen 4-6!
It's been 14 long years since our second Keen trilogy but these ended up being the best Keens of all. Unfortunately, we had a publishing deal that forced us to release one of the three Keens at retail thus breaking up the sacred trilogy of games which resulted in lower sales of this second trilogy. The retail game was called Aliens Ate My Baby [...]
Happy Birthday, Keen!
Today is the 15th birthday of the first trilogy of the classic Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons! Our team was super small when we created these three games: John Carmack, Tom Hall and myself. Adrian Carmack came in near the end to do some art touch-up but the majority of the art was Tom Hall's. It took us three months of working at [...]
Happy KEENsday!
It's the 14th birthday of the original Commander Keen 1-3 trilogy - on the 14th! And it's the 13th birthday of the second Keen duo of 4-5 on the 15th. Check out some of the Keen sites on the Net to reaquaint yourself with the little fella. Cerebral Cortex 314 Commander Spleen's Land of Commander Keen Crazy Flash Movie with Keen sprites [...]
Happy DOOMsday!
It's the 11th birthday of the mighty DOOM! Unfortunately, I don't remember anything about its development history anymore - I don't know how that happened. Ok, just kidding. If you haven't visited the DOOM page in a while, take a look for a minute to remember what was once a world obsession. To celebrate, I've put up some pictures from [...]
Birthdays Galore
HAPPY BIRTHDAY... Dec 10: DOOM - 10 yrs Dec 14: KEEN 1-3 - 13 yrs Dec 15: KEEN 4-6 - 12 yrs Dec 23: HERETIC - 9 yrs Dec 23: HDB - 2 yrs Man, December is the golden month of game birthdays! It's been quite a while since I updated - I did a full reinstall on my computer and I'm still not finished yet. For instance, I'm writing this [...]
December is the Month of Birthdays
TWO COMMANDER KEEN BIRTHDAYS...IN A ROW! Man, there's too many birthdays, that's all I gotta say. Heh. Just kidding - no, I don't get tired of blasting this little cake graphic in the news section every single month or so. The first Keen trilogy, Invasion of the Vorticons, was released into shareware by Apogee Software on December 14, [...]
