As a result, the Id Software team began the development of Commander Keen, a Mario-style side-scrolling game for the PC, once again " borrowing " company computers to work on it at odd hours at the lake house at which they lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.

The shareware distribution method was initially employed by Id Software through Apogee Software to sell their products, such as the Commander Keen, Wolfenstein and Doom games.

Starting with their first shareware game series, Commander Keen, Id Software has licensed the core source code for the game, or what is more commonly known as the engine.

Id Software has developed their own game engine for each of their titles when moving to the next technological milestone, including Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Shadowcaster, DOOM, Quake, Quake II, and Quake III, as well as technology used in making Doom 3.

Screenshot of a Commander Keen game, Keen Must Die!

The Commander Keen series, a platform game introducing one of the first smooth side-scrolling game engines for MS-DOS, brought Id Software into the gaming mainstream.

Also there was John Romero's Dangerous Dave series, which included such notables as the tech demo ( In Copyright Infringement ) which led to the Commander Keen engine, and the decently popular Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion.

Hall has frequently commented that if he could obtain the rights to Commander Keen, he would immediately develop another Keen title.

* Commander Keen

* In the id Software game Commander Keen, Keen explores Mars in the first episode and keeps a Martian pet for the remainder of the series.

A preview included with id's very first release, 1990's Commander Keen, advertised a game entitled The Fight for Justice as a follow-up to the Keen trilogy.

" in the Commander Keen language, Standard Galactic Alphabet.

Commander Keen is a series of video games developed by id Software in the early 1990s.

The series focuses on the adventures of Billy Blaze, an 8-year old boy who travels through space and assumes the identity " Commander Keen ".

Although developed by id, most of the Commander Keen games were published by Apogee Software, an already established DOS shareware game publisher.

Seven official Commander Keen games were released for the PC under MS-DOS.

:: While Commander Keen is exploring Mars, the Vorticon steal four vital components of his ship and hide them in Martian cities, each guarded by a Vorticon soldier.

* The 2001 release for the Game Boy Color, titled simply Commander Keen, was the final release in the series.

* A Commander Keen game for the Nintendo Entertainment System was planned.

Tom Hall claims that he intends to make a new game if he ever reclaims the intellectual property rights to Commander Keen.

When his parents are out and the babysitter falls asleep, he dons his brother's Packers helmet and becomes Commander Keen, Defender of Earth.

However, to complete their contractual obligation to Softdisk, they did several more games for them including Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, Rescue Rover, Hovertank 3D, Rescue Rover 2, Tiles of the Dragon, Catacomb 3D and Keen Dreams ( the " lost " episode of the Commander Keen series ).

* " Vampira ", a song by Commander Cody of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen on his 1978 album Flying Dreams

Finally, during the prologue to Knife of Dreams, Eamon Valda was killed in a duel with Galad Damodred, who then became the Lord Captain Commander.

He had been made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1992.

* 1992: Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE )

* Wing Commander: Baen published seven Wing Commander novels from 1992 to 1999 ( starting with Freedom Flight by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon, and ending with False Colors by William R. Forstchen and Andrew Keith ), including the novelizations of two of the games, Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger and Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in the 2000 New Year Honours he was knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite CBE.

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972, a Knight in 1992, a Life Peer by the cricket-loving Prime Minister John Major in 1997 and was posthumously inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame on 24 June 2009.

* Wing Commander series ( 1992 onwards, previous games published in-house )

* KCVO: Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 4 July 1992

She was made a doctor of music by the University of Cambridge in 1976, and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) in 1992.

* 1992: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to music

During the period referred to in the indictment, he held the rank of Colonel in the HVO ( Croatian Defence Council ) and, from 27 June 1992, he was appointed Commander of the Regional Headquarters of the Armed Forces in central Bosnia.

In 1992, he was cast in the lead role of Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1992.

McCollum was an officer for more than 23 years before retiring from the United States Naval Reserve as a Commander ( O-5 ) in the JAG Corps in 1992.

He became Flag Officer, Surface Flotilla and NATO Commander of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Striking Force in November 1992.

She was styled The Lady Helen Windsor until her marriage, on 18 July 1992, to Timothy Verner Taylor ( b. 8 August 1963 ), an art dealer and the eldest son of Commander Michael Verner Taylor, RN and Susan G. Percy.

Commander Laurence and Anne were married 12 December 1992, in a Church of Scotland ceremony at Crathie Parish Church, Ballater, near Balmoral, the Church of Scotland permitting the remarriage of divorced people.

Charles was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) from Queen Elizabeth in 1972 and advanced to Commander in the same Order in 1992.

She served as a mission specialist on STS-61-A in 1985, STS-32 in 1990, and STS-71 in 1995, and was the Payload Commander on STS-50 in 1992, and STS-89 in 1998.

From September 1989 through September 1992, he trained for space flight as part of the test-cosmonauts group and from October 1992 to March 1994 he underwent extensive training as Commander of the Soyuz-TM rescue spacecraft.

Commander Melnick retired from the U. S. Coast Guard and left NASA in July 1992.