Commander Keen: 13 Years Later

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:00AM from the a-game-hits-puberty dept.

16977 writes "I just noticed that Id Software is now selling downloadable versions of its classic titles Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons and Goodbye Galaxy. Although the game is over 10 years old by now, there is still a thriving community of Keen fans out there whose interest has not waned. We now have level editors for both Keen Vorticons and Goodbye Galaxy, unofficial Keen fan software, and of course the infamous Dopefish, which has by now made cameo appearances in well over a dozen computer games. However, we have yet to see Commander Keen: The Universe is Toast, the sequel to the previous Keen game that was planned but never made. With the original developers pursuing their own independent projects, it doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon. But in the meantime, die-hard Keen fans have been getting by, not unlike Farscape fans after their show was cancelled."

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what is this? by TerraFrost · 2003-03-16 07:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

this isn't news... every semi succesful game out there has people who still like it... hell... even unsuccesful games, such as Forgotten Realm's Unlimited Adventures has mailing lists with 200+ fans, and pages with hacks of all kinds.
if slashdot.org is so low on news, that they're willing to advertise sites, and call it news, well then... someone please tell me where to sign up!