Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars

Commander Keen is the first truly "commercial quality" game to be distributed as shareware. It features ultra-high-speed smooth-scrolling EGA graphics and superb sound effects. The animation and scrolling is updated at nearly 40 frames per second, for comparison, motion picture quality cartoons are filmed at only 24 frames per second. The story of Commander Keen is epic, and in the style of the memorable matinee serials, like Flash Gordon. You play the role of Billy Blaze, an eight-year-old kid genius who builds an interstellar ship when not working at home on his college fast-track degree. Am...