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The series focuses on the adventures of Billy Blaze, an 8-year old boy who travels through space and assumes the identity " Commander Keen ".
The series was successful at replicating the side-scrolling action of the Nintendo Entertainment System Super Mario Bros. games in DOS.
The cartoon-style platform games are notable for their pioneering use of EGA graphics and shareware distribution, and they were some of the first games by id Software ( which went on to develop blockbusters like Doom and Quake ).
The games were also exciting to the PC gaming community of the time because of John D. Carmack's smooth-scrolling graphics engine.
Although developed by id, most of the Commander Keen games were published by Apogee Software, an already established DOS shareware game publisher.
The games ( with the exception of " Aliens Ate My Babysitter ") were made available on Steam on August 3, 2007.
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