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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social

12/14/2025, 10:31:33 PM

Public

Happy 35th to the original Commander Keen trilogy. 🎂🎉🥂

($15 back then is approximately $36 today.)

Commander Keen in "Invasion of the Vorticons" Episode One: Marooned on Mars title screen

CONWANDER KEEN: INVASION OF THE UORTICON5 CONSISTS OF THREE UNIQUE AND CHALLENGING EPISODES:
1. MAROONED ON MARS $15
2. THE EARTH EXPLODES $15
3. KEEN MUST DIE! $15

ORDER THE TRILOGY FOR $30 AND YOU GET:
* THE "SECRET HINTS & TRICKS" SHEET
* THE SPECIAL "CHEAT MODE" PASSWORD
* THE LATEST VERSION OF EACH GAME
* SEVERAL FREE BONUS GAMES!

ID Software. "We're In Demand!"

WE ARE A GROUP OF SOFTWARE ARTISTS WHOSE GOAL IS TO BRING COMMERCIAL QUALITY SOFTWARE TO THE PUBLIC AT SHAREWARE PRICES.
OUR EFFORT IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH YOUR SUPPORT. WITHOUT IT, WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO MAKE THIS FINE SOFTWARE SO AFFORDABLE.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE FUTURE OF THE GROWING SHAREWARE MARKET.

$15 per volume, or $30 for all three volumes!

Commander Keen is the first truly "commercial quality" game to be distributed
as shareware. It features ultra high-speed smooth-scrolling EGA graphics and
superb sound effects. The animation and scrolling is updated at nearly 40
frames per second, for comparison, motion picture quality cartoons are filmed
at only 24 frames per second.

The story of Commander Keen is epic, and in the style of the memorable
matinee serials, like Flash Gordon. You play the role of Billy Blaze, eight
year-old kid genius who builds an interstellar ship when not working at home
on his college fast-track degree. Among other household objects, Billy uses
his Nintendo joystick for flight control and his mom's vacuum cleaner
(heavily modified) for his ship's ion propulsion system (with pile height
adjustment).

At the hint of galactic trouble, Billy dons his brother's football helmet and
becomes "Commander Keen"─defender of Earth! Ever on the side of justice,
fairness, and high calorie junk food, Keen dispenses justice with an iron hand.

Keen's first adventure takes you to Mars, where the Vorticon invasion force
is planning their conquest of Earth. While Keen is exploring Mars the
Vorticons steal pieces of his ship and hide them within their cities. Can
Keen recover all the pieces and repel the Vorticon invasion? You'll explore
many dangerous cities, packed with diabolical traps and hideous creatures,
both of Martian and Vorticon origin.

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