I really don’t play too many video games lately, and the ones I do are almost always old school. Well, recently I found one of my all-time favorite old-school games, and have spent a little bit of time the last two nights to beat it. It was quite refreshing and fun. For some reason it seemed like it took longer the first time I played it, but then again, I must not have known where to find all the hidden teddy bears the first time. Anyway, I present you with a blast from the past, Commander Keen, Episode 1: Invasion of the Vorticons.
I think the most surprising thing to me was that it actually ran great on my Windows XP machine at home. DOS games don’t always fare so well.
Left by Jordan on August 22nd, 2003
What’s funny is that Dave is *still* ahead on comments.
Left by Eric on August 22nd, 2003
Someone’s been reading /. :p
Left by TheMole on August 23rd, 2003
My God, my arcade game jumping skills are sorely out of practice. I’m getting my ass kicked.
Left by John on August 23rd, 2003
Commander keen rocked…that and the first Duke Nukem game (the side-scroller) were classics. And of course Sierra adventure games from that era…I wish they still made games like those.
Left by Joel on August 23rd, 2003
TheMole: yeah, I’m a copy cat. That’s ok though, because I also post stories to /.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1454233&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=128&tid=156&tid=95
Left by Jordan on August 23rd, 2003
I’ve seen your posts on SlashDot before anyways, that’s how I got the link to here. I just knew it had to be more than a coincidence, two mentions of keen in a week.
God, that game rocked so good.
Left by TheMole on August 23rd, 2003
…even my Mum liked it :/
Left by TheMole on August 23rd, 2003
And interestingly enough, now /. is running an interview with Carmack about how games should be simpler like they used to. There’s definitely a market for them. Look how much we all miss something as basic as commander keen. That was one stinking good game.
Anybody else here figure out themselves and memorize the standard galactic alphabet? I mean, really, EXIT was so obvious when you saw it by all the doors, and you could figure out most of the alphabet from that and the rest of the signs around the place. That was so fun.
Left by Jordan on August 23rd, 2003
You guys are complete looser, especially the guy who memorized the alphabet. Jesus Christ they were good games. but games now days are better, so get a life and and job.
Left by Cooler than all of you on December 16th, 2003
Hmm, or you could back off; like you’ve never memorized sports scores or stats that were just as irrelevant? Regardless, I was a kid. Nothing wrong with a little reminiscing, you don’t have to come here and be a prick about it.
Left by Jordan on December 16th, 2003
how do you get it to run on windows xp? where did you download it from?
Left by lisa on April 2nd, 2005
can i download the game some how cause i use to play this game and i want to play this game now
Left by Momi on July 15th, 2005