Keen Shots

[Bandit LOAF]

http://www.avault.com/news/displaynews.asp?story=3282001-155057

An AVault article that I think WildFire found.

 

[mpanty]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!! Why did I sell my Game Boy??? Why? Why? Why?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

To get money to buy one of those GameBoy Advanceds, probably.

 

[mpanty]

Em... I'm not *THAT* desperate to play a new Keen game, LOAF...

It would cost me more than... half the price of a Kilrathi Saga on eBay...

 

[Ladiesman^]

I have my good 'ol Game Boy, Pocket Game Boy, and Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy. Been working on my collection of systems. I still have my Kleicovision hooked up! Damn Jaguar, 3DO, and TurboGrafx 16 are eluding me. I've got just about everything else though, including the handheld systems. Nomad is still my fav.

 

[Dekkar]

Ooo spring release, that's perfect, I'll be able to get it with a game boy advance[I never did have a gameboy color.] . Is commander keen still supposed to be billy blaze? If so he seems to have changed color.

 

[mpanty]

Hey, you're right Dekkar... the colour is not the same!!

ARGH!! A videogame institution has been vandalized!!

 

[Dynaco]

Chances are the GBA can display more colors then the PC could when Keen first came out. Or maybe they thought he should get new threads to keep up with the times, I mean Blair wasn't wearing that same Battlestar Galactica looking brown outfit every game. Hunter in WC1 makes me think of Lt. Starbuck

 

[mpanty]

Originally posted by Dynaco
Hunter in WC1 makes me think of Lt. Starbuck

Maybe that was intentional...

 

[Meson]

That will be a great Keen game.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Yeah, GBC is really the best possible platform -- no stupid 3D stuff... it'll be just like a Keen game of yore!

Yore, I tell you, yore!

 

[redwolf]

Ahhh Keen, many a wasted hour of youth was spent on your adventures....

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

Those were the days...

 

[mpanty]

...of innoncence... until Wing Commander popped up...

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

I don't think I was innocent at that time...

 

[mpanty]

Ok, no problem...

Those were the days of innoncence (except for Mekt)... until Wing Commander popped up...

That better?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

I think Keen and WC1 appeared around the same time...

 

[mpanty]

Ehm... not really LOAF, 'cause I remember playing Secret of the Oracle [/b]before[/b] playing WC in 1991-92... Hence the first Keen episodes must have been out even before that...

For all it matters, we had a "short amount of time" of innocence then...

 

[RFBurns]

Keen! Oh boy do I need to remove the cobwebs from that archive!!

RFBurns

 

[Bandit LOAF]

From the Apogee FAQ...

Episodes 1-3 are collectively called "Invasion of the Vorticons,"
and are published by Apogee Software. This series of Commander Keen
was released on December 14th, 1990, according to Tom Hall, then Creative
Director for id Software.

Episodes 4-5 are collectively called "Goodbye Galaxy!" and are also
published by Apogee Software. This series of Commander Keen was
released somewhere around June of 1991.