** Keen Dreams ( 1991 )

* On August 3, 2007, episodes 1-5 ( excluding " Keen Dreams " and " Aliens Ate My Babysitter ") were rereleased on Steam as part of the id Software game addition to Steam.

However, the developers of id had a contract with Softdisk requiring them to write several more games, one of which became Keen Dreams.

Keen Dreams is sometimes referred to as " Keen 3. 5 ", " Keen 7 ", or the " Lost Episode ", as it was never distributed by Apogee.

Keen Dreams introduces three difficulty levels.

and Aliens Ate My Babysitter !, all the improvements from Keen Dreams are kept, except for the " Flower Power ".

In " Keen Dreams ", Keen will fall asleep instead of reading a book.

Custom arenas have been created for Keen episodes 4, 5, 6, and Dreams.

* Keen Dreams at id Software

* Commander Keen: Keen Dreams ( 1992 ), Softdisk

The music for the level, titled Eat Your Veggies and originally composed by Bobby Prince for use in Keen Dreams, is also commonly associated with the Dopefish and has inspired some spin-offs compositions including Fish Polka and Dope Jaws by former 3D Realms Music and Sound Director Lee Jackson.

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 ).

Bradley Park once hosted a professional baseball team, the Walden Hummingbirds ( aka Keen Kutters ) of the Class D North Atlantic League.

The line-up included Dougie Anderson as chair, with panel members including Dan Wright and Steve Marsh, aka Electric Forecast, Jovanka Steele, Susan Murray, Sharon and Lauretta Gavin, Tom Price, Adrian Poynton, Les Keen, Michael McIntyre and Jo Caulfield.

They also satirized Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons with the continuing parody, " Mr. Trace, Keener than Most Persons ," which began with a simple plot that soon degenerated into total gibberish where the dialogue was concerned (" Mister Treat, Chaser of Lost Persons ," " Thanks for the vote of treedle, Pete ") and gunplay (" You ... You've shot me !...

Hughes was best known as the titular character Bill Davidson on the long-running daytime radio serial, Just Plain Bill, and he acted in other well-known radio programs such as the Fu Manchu Mysteries and Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons.

Keen began recording the album after his previous label, Arista Austin had closed down, and before finding his new, albeit brief, home on Lost Highway Records.

** Episode 3: Keen Must Die ( 1991 )

Episode 6 features very large switches Keen needs to either jump on, or headbutt to use.

* Redwood Games ' Pickle Wars mentions Commander Keen in Episode 1 Level 10.

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

In 1990, while still at Softdisk, Carmack, Romero, and others created the first of the Commander Keen games, a series which was published by Apogee Software, under the shareware distribution model, from 1991 onwards.

" The Golfer's Manual ", by " A Keen Hand " ( H. B. Farnie ), is published.

A short-lived game subscription called Gamer's Edge published side-scrolling and 3D games written by the team that would later create Commander Keen and Doom.

Keen that more research should be done in this field, he published " The Psychology of Happiness " in 1987, 2nd edition 2001.

John Henry Keen translated the Book of Common Prayer into Haida, published in 1899 in London by the Missionary Society.

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.

Included with the gamepad was a shareware Commander Keen game, episode 1, Marooned on Mars, which was later replaced with the shareware episode 4, Secret of the Oracle which supported all 4 buttons.

It is best known for popularizing the shareware distribution model and as the creator of franchises on the PC such as Duke Nukem, and also the publisher of other franchises such as Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D.

Between levels in the shareware version, the player encountered humorous messages that took a swipe at various popular game characters, such as Mario, Commander Keen and Duke Nukem.

* December 14 — Commander Keen is released as shareware.

As a side note, it was at this time that Miller contacted key members at Softdisk ( a monthly software magazine delivered on floppy disks to subscribers ) who later formed id Software, and convinced them to make Commander Keen as a shareware game to be released through Apogee, which proved to be an outstanding success, and led id Software to become an independent studio.

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

:: 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.

:: When Keen's babysitter Molly is abducted by the Bloogs, Keen must come to her rescue by fighting his way through the inhabitants of the planet Fribbulus Xax.

During this adventure, Keen learns that the Vorticons used to be a peaceful race, but were enslaved by the mysterious Grand Intellect.

In the final level, Keen has to disable the " Mangling Machine ", a large apparatus with many crushing parts controlled by Mortimer.

John Romero was later contacted by Scott Miller of Apogee, who, after seeing some of id's work, advanced the team $ 2, 000 for the development of Commander Keen, starting a profitable business relationship that would last until id Software self-published Doom.

Enemies include fictional Martian species Yorps and Gargs ( in episode 1, after which a yorp follows Keen onto his ship, the Bean with Bacon MegaRocket, only to be noticed by Keen when he lands back on Earth, at which point he makes it his pet and calles it Spot ), and Vorticon or Vorticon-related creatures ( in all three episodes ).

* In the " Pyramid of the Moons " level, Keen can gain access to a secret level by gathering inchworms under him at a certain point.

In reality, it is a simple substitution cipher created by Tom Hall for the Commander Keen series.

Originally for Keen 1 he drew some graphics for Exit signs which he made look a bit more alien by changing the ordinary Latin letters a bit.

Players of the Keen series that spent the necessary time could figure out SGA by looking at the many signs throughout the games.

NetKeen is a multiplayer fangame created by Lemm in 2011 by reverse engineering the Keen Galaxy / Wolf3D code and combining it with the Doom IPX network code.

* In Apogee's arch-rival, Epic MegaGames ' Jill of the Jungle, episode 1 includes a news bulletin taking a swipe at Keen, who it claims has been forced into retirement by " those cool Epic heroes ".

Iachimo was played by Geoffrey Keen, whose father Malcolm had played Jachimo with Ashcroft at the Old Vic in 1932.