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!

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.

* The hall inspired the name of an Asgard starship commanded by Supreme Commander Thor, in the television series Stargate SG-1 named Beliskner.

* Trudeau was awarded the US Army ’ s Commander ’ s Award for Public Service in 2006 for his series of strips about BD ’ s recovery following the loss of his leg in Iraq.

A meeting with American television companies ( ABC, Métromédia, NBC ) created the series The Underwater Odyssey of Commander Cousteau, with the character of the commander in the red bonnet inherited from standard diving dress ) intended to give the films a " personalized adventure " style.

Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge is a main character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and its feature films, played by LeVar Burton.

At the beginning of Season 2, he was promoted to Lieutenant and named Chief Engineer ; in Season 3, he rose to Lieutenant Commander and has retained this rank for the duration of the series and movies.

Twice in the series, Geordi refused to be granted natural vision, first by Commander Riker who had been given extraordinary amounts of power by Q and later by Doctor Katherine Pulaski.

A Sontaran named Commander Kaagh the Slayer, of the 10th Sontaran Fleet, made his appearance in the second series of the spin-off show in episodes 1 and 2, The Last Sontaran.

He's busted down to Janitor Second Class, and assigned to the SCS DeepShip 86 ( a parody of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ), commanded by Commander Kielbasa, a Cowardly Lion look-alike whose name is taken from the polish sausage as well as being a play on the names of both the feline Kilrathi from the video game series Wing Commander and of the character Mufasa from the animated motion picture The Lion King.

* Terran Confederation, the primary human government in the Wing Commander science fiction series

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.

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

Petersen gave the Commander Keen series 4 out of 5 stars.

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.

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 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World starring Russell Crowe and directed by Peter Weir is based on this series of books.

After returning from his nature trip, in June 1956, Fleming became involved in a project with Henry Morgenthau, III to collaborate on a television series Commander Jamaica, centred in the Caribbean with the main character of James Gunn.

Frakes reprised his role of Commander Riker in the 2005 Enterprise series finale, " These Are the Voyages ...".

In both publications and recorded interviews, he refers to the sacrifice made by the squadron's navigating officer Commander John Warrand, who stood aside and allowed him to exit the compass platform first.

* 10 January – Lieutenant Commander Charles Samson flies Short Improved S. 27 No. 38 from a platform constructed over the deck of battleship HMS Africa moored in the River Medway, England.

* June 28 – An aircraft takes off successfully from a flying-off platform mounted on a warships gun turret for the first time when Royal Naval Air Service Flight Commander F. J. Rutland takes off from a platform aboard the British light cruiser HMS Yarmouth in a Sopwith Pup.

** The Royal Navy conducts the first launch of an aircraft from a battleship or battlecruiser, when Royal Naval Air Service Flight Commander F. J. Rutland takes off in a Sopwith Pup fighter from a platform mounted on a 15-inch ( 381-mm ) gun turret of the battlecruiser.

It is reminiscent of Total Commander or Norton Commander, and according to author himself, gentoo tries to capture the features, the look and feel of legendary file manager from Amiga platform: Directory Opus.

It is then positioned on top of the self-propelled platform Ocean Odyssey and moved to the equatorial Pacific Ocean for launch, with the Sea Launch Commander serving as command center.

He prepares to exit the weapon platform when the Reptilian Commander Dolin beams aboard and attacks him.

Jill of the Jungle is a platform sidescroller which was released during the same period as the Commander Keen and Duke Nukem.

Because of limited plant capacity, the decision was made to focus on the Daytona, Cruiser, Commander and Wagonaire, which were all Lark-type platform variants.

* Recovery platform to run 32-bit or 64-bit recovery tools such as Winternals ERD Commander or the Windows Recovery Environment ( Windows RE ).