Commander Keen 2 (The Earth Explodes)

A Yorp that Keen brought home from his first adventure.

First, I would just like to say, I was thrilled when I found out Keen took a Yorp home with him. As I mentioned in my last post, the Yorps are my favorite martians that Keen encounters. As a matter of fact, they're my favorite out of all three of the Keens. However, the Scrubs are my favorite out of the aliens in the second episode of Keen. It isn't neccesary to play all the levels to win the game, you only need to win the levels with a certain symbol above the entrance, but I play all the levels anyways. In my time, I have pulled many levers that completely destroyed the Earth. The gray tunnels in two of the pictures, that I put below, remind me of the yellow ones, from Keen 1, that had Gargs hiding in them. I like Keen, so at one point I thought that I was going to get addicted to the different kinds of foods that are in Keen, although that never happened. Take Keen 2 for example, I never found my self wanting a lot of candy bars, cola, hamburgers, or chocolate cake. (I already had a favorite stuffed animal.)

I like how in Keen 2 you can stand on cans.

I like the levels where you need all the keys.

That red guy is a scrub.

The beginning starts where Keen 1 left off. If you played Keen 1, you might recall that when it ends there is a mother ship ready to destroy Earth. Keen lands on the ship and that is where Keen 2 starts. I like how there isn't a gap between the two episodes. Not a minute. Keen 2 ends with the mother ship heading back to the planet it came from which leaves Keen 3, which has Commander Keen going to the planet to end this once and for all. But I won't talk too much about that, that'll be for my next post.

Commander Keen 1 (Marooned on Mars)

I took this shot at the end of the first level.

Hello everybody. This is the first post on my first blog, so I hope it goes well and I go on to do more blogging. I like to play Commander Keen, episodes 1-3. It's a game from the 1990's and is a little out of date. It was originally a DOS game and Keen 1 was the shareware version of it. It is Keen 1, that I'm going to talk about in this post. I don't really remember how I got associated with the Keen's as the first three were made before I was born. My favorite martian of Keen is the Yorp, for obvious reasons coming from someone who plays keen. Yorps are the little one-eyed green guys. One is visible at the bottom of the screen. Another is half on-screen at the bottom left. There may be a third partially on-screen at the top left. I'm not sure, I took this shot a while back. I kick myself every time I accidental shot one of these guys, as one shot kills them, and they're harmless and cute. They are seen on almost every single level. Yorps may be my favorite martian that Keen encounters, but there aren't any that I dislike. Maybe initially I may have disliked the Vorticons, because they're the hardest to kill, but if I did I don't really remember because it was such a long time ago I first played and I don't any more..

That's a statue of a Yorp, and it can give some pretty helpful information.

I love the Teddy Bear on Keen 1. I always go to sleep with my teddy bear every night.

Keen right next to a teddy bear.

I play the first three keens, and of those keens I think the one I play the most is this one. With the amount of times I have played this, I have long remembered where the teleporter to the secret level is and mastered how to get to it. I'll give you a hint, it's in a level that looks like a castle. Keen is a game I would strongly recommend playing, even if it is over 20 years old. Commander Keen Download. If you want to play it, and need the file, you just need to click that link. Here is one more screenshot for the road.

This is inside one of the levels that looks like a castle.

I was on a computer in my college recently, which has Windows 8, and Keen didn't work. So, just so everyone knows, it must not work on the newest hardware and software computers.