Commander Keen

[Maverick5770]

I was just wondering if any of you ever played Commander Keen, or any other of those great DOS games? I do have XP, but I manage to run my favorite DOS games still, like Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Commander Keen and Gorrilas. So did/do you play DOS Games?

[Terran I]

I have never played DOS Games Before, till today when I downloaded some of them, I can't say which games because in a thread I started they say these downloads are illegal so I won't advertise them!

[Prime]

I used to love Commander Keen back in the day.

[Maverick5770]

^^ DOS Games are basically all abandonware(Aren't they?), so I don't think you'd get in trouble, thats how I got my DOS Games.

[Jeff]

I've played a few DOS games, can't remember exactly which ones, but they were kind of fun when I was young.

[Dagobahn Eagle]

I've played tonnes of DOS games, as my first computer barely even has Windows (it had version 3,1, which was, actually, a rather swell version).

 

Commander Keen was really good. My favourite will always be X-Com: UFO Defence, though:cool:. I bought it in a pack with Terror from the Deep and two huge strategy guides covering absolutely everything (each was several hundred A4 pages long:eek: - this was back when PRIMA actually could make strategy guides, as opposed to today's thin books slightly more than manuals:().

 

TIE Fighter was awesome, too! I still regard it as the best combat flight simulator game ever. I helped port it to X-Wing Alliance a few years ago (search the forums here, you'll find them).

[coupes.]

I rember playing Commander Keen, that was a lot of fun. I also remember playing Duke Nukemin DOS, that was amazing !

 

Oh and of course Tie Fighter and X-Wing were incredible too.

[Prime]

TIE Fighter was awesome, too! I still regard it as the best combat flight simulator game ever. I helped port it to X-Wing Alliance a few years ago (search the forums here, you'll find them).

I will definitely check that out!

[Pho3nix]

Yeah i've played alot of DOS games. I have Doom and Castle Wolfenstein 3D on my computer, nice nostalgia feeling to them. I also play Command&Conquer and Duke Nukem 3D sometimes (even though they aren't DOS games).

[Dagobahn Eagle]

Oh and of course Tie Fighter and X-Wing were incredible too.

"Incredible" isn't the word that comes to mind when I think of X-Wing. It's "incredibly, sadistically, unfathomably hard":p. I never completed more than two or three missions:o.

 

Oh, and here is a direct link to the TIE Fighter conversion:). Features:

 

A. Battles 1-7 from the original TIE Fighter game (battles 8-13 expansion planned).

B. New TIE Fighter models with cockpits.

C. All Introduction and Battle Cutscenes.

D. All in-flight and briefing voices (converted from the users TIE Fighter CDROM).

E. Concourse/Imperial Quarters Interface.

F. Imperial Star destroyer hanger and items.

G. Custom “extended” version of the intro Cutscenes.

H. Custom award ceremonies.

I. Custom/Converted concourse music from TIE Fighter.

J. Custom battle CBMs and Icons.

K. Custom Email messages following the chronicles of Stele Maarek (runs parallel with Stele chronicles and Prima’s Strategy Guide).

L. Custom game launcher (you must use the launcher to play).

[90SK]

I've played all six Commander Keen games. I believe Keen 1 was the first computer game I got exposed to. Definitely a lot of fun (Keen 6 is my favorite, though. It's a shame they never made the slated 7th installment).

[Sabretooth]

Ah, yes. DOS Games. I recently got the first two Monkey Islands from a friend, and I am pretty much hypnotized by the two! As for Commander Keen, I downloaded it and its sequel when I was browsing an abandonware site.

 

[nostalgia]Heh. Those days I would just go on downloading and go on playing like there was no end to the world.[/nostalgic]

[Maverick5770]

@Skye, isn't the seventh commander keen game, "Keen Dreams"? OR is that a different thing?

[90SK]

Keen Dreams is more "Keen 3.5", and was developed by a different group. There was a separate Keen #7 alluded to at the end of #6, but ID software moved on to other things like DOOM and Quake, and Keen got buried.

[Alegis]

I vaguely remember playing one with some sort of bananaland if that is any help to narrow it down to one version