Keen 3 is particularly helpful, since it has a relatively large number of signs with both SGA and Roman letters.

In the years since the release of utilities to modify the levels and graphics in the original Keen series in early 2002, more than fifty mods have been made, most of which feature Commander Keen as the protagonist.

The Dopefish first appeared in Commander Keen episode IV, and references to it have appeared in many other video games since.

Keen, a graduate of Texas A & M University, where he and fellow songwriter Lyle Lovett were roommates, has been performing on college campuses since the late 80s.

Maurice Keen provides a brief summary and useful critique of the once-popular view that Robin Hood had mythological origins, while ( unlike some ) refraining from utterly and finally dismissing it.

Unlike the first game which had a happy and friendly atmosphere, almost everything in this game is hostile towards Keen, from the floating machine gun robots to the electrified floors.

Unbeknownst to Keen, the Mortimer he had defeated was only an android duplicate.

However, Mortimer had another couple of appearances: he is responsible for Keen's babysitter's abduction in episode 6 of the series, and in the Game Boy Color release of Commander Keen, Mortimer is responsible for another alien race attempting to rule the galaxy.

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

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

At 18 he joined his uncle's screwmaking business, Nettlefolds ( later part of Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds ) of Birmingham, in which his father had invested.

Houston has had sizable folk-country and blues scenes dating back to the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, which included many now famous performers such as Nancy Griffith, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen and Lightnin ' Hopkins, Albert Collins, Big Mama Thornton, and Johnny Copeland who were signed with the hometown Peacock Records.

Dorsey, an American, was known for his haste and he had to advise James Deans who had been a guide in the area that he should just keep quiet as the local missionary John Henry Keen lambasted Deans and his unidentified, but American, collaborators for desecrating the graves of the local natives in their hunt for Northwest Coast artifacts.

Another set of sisters, Sylvia Heal and Ann Keen, had both been elected at the 1997 election, also, meaning that neither pair of sisters holds the record for being the first.

Nettlefolds Limited, a leading manufacturer of fasteners, had been established in Smethwick, Birmingham in 1854 and was acquired in 1902 leading to the change of name to Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds.

Keen had claimed to be opposed to expansion at Heathrow for many years ; stating in his consultation publication on the issue he is " opposed to an additional runway " and although he was in favour of expansion up to the present boundaries " there has to be a limit " and he believed " that limit has been reached ".< ref >

In 2000 Keen became well known for campaigning on gay rights, her interest in the issue sparked when she was reunited with her gay son who she had given up for adoption.

In 2001 he played Tony Moressa on the show Pit Pony and had two appearances on Royal Canadian Air Farce as ' The Clean Cut Keen SportsNet Guy '.

Keen to showcase the band to a possibly more receptive British audience ( Melody Maker had already described the band as a deliciously unsettling proposition ), record label Mushroom / Infectious made them the first signing to their London-based branch.

In 2001, she made her film début with South Kensington, with Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson and later had a recurring role in the television drama series Keen Eddie.

Mason married Grace Keen, with whom he had three children.

Thunderclap Newman were a British one-hit wonder band that Pete Townshend of The Who and Kit Lambert had formed circa December 1968-January 1969 in a bid to showcase the talents of John " Speedy " Keen, Andy " Thunderclap " Newman and Jimmy McCulloch.

The set includes five songs written and sung by Keen, only one of which had appeared on his solo albums.

Keen, who was due to appear before a parliamentary committee the next day, had ordered a shutdown of the NRU reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, which is operated by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, in November 2007 over the AECL's failure to perform safety upgrades.

Appearing before a parliamentary committee January 16, 2008 Lunn refused to cite one example of what Linda Keen had done wrong in her job, only that she had lost the confidence of the government.

For music and sound effects, id Software hired Bobby Prince who had previously scored Wolfenstein 3D and worked on the Commander Keen games.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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

* 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.

It would have consisted of all Keen games packaged together for Microsoft Windows and Pocket PC, but it never got out of the planning stages, and was never even officially announced.

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.

Keen keeps the pogo stick for the rest of the series.

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

By hitting A, T and B simultaneously, Keen is granted all of the current level's crystal keys / keycards, 1 extra life and 99 shots for the ray gun.

* In episodes 4, 5, and 6, if Keen is left idle for several seconds, he will look directly towards the screen with his hands on his waist, looking impatient, then shrug his shoulders.

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.

Knowing the complete alphabet is necessary for the player to decipher a letter which explains part of the storyline at the end of Keen 5.

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

At least two Commander Keen skins have been created for the Doom source port Doom Legacy, cementing Keen's connections with Doom in a more positive light.