This Week In Gaming History

[Chimaera]

This Week In Gaming History

Stave off the oncoming holidays this week in gaming history with Commander Keen and an installment in the iconic Final Fantasy series.

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[L.B. Jeffries]

Ah...Commander Keen, I can still hear that high pitched scrunch as you bounce a pogo off a near impossible jump. I wonder if a game today could get away with so blatantly encouraging the player to just collect junk food for points. Everything in the game was pizza, soda, candy bars....if I remember that title for anything, it's always making me hungry.

 

[Baby Tea]

I loved Commander Keen.
I had 'Goodbye Galaxy' and 'Keen Dreams' and highly enjoyed them both!

Ahh...it was a simpler time...a happy time...when a man could be happy shooting slugs with his little ray gun, pogo jumping off of red bouncy balls, or riding said balls across the entire level.

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*Starts digging through old diskettes*

 

[Retodon8]

Like I just said over at Tom Hall's blog [http://tomtomtom.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/meeeeemorieeeeeeeees/], Commander Keen rocks!

 

[Yaky]

Haha I love commander Keen, I was playing it before I'd even heard of Mario.

 

[mattaui]

Invasion of the Vorticons? I'd forgotten that name - it does sound awfully similar to Vortigon though, doesn't it?

18 years ago, and I still have fond memories of Commander Keen, even though I wasn't particularly adept at it.