Public Commander Keen Forum

It's early for me so this is a really hard question. I'm not going to count the GBA Keen if that's okay with everybody. So the one I played the least is Keen 1. I almost said 5 because I always found it so lonely up there in space, but I spent countless hours there too and the game play was rockin'....

I'm really great at starting a conversation I guess. Here is a pogo-stick myth. One of some popularity I think. "There is a legend that, 'either George Hansburg or a anonymous German was traveling through Burma when he meet a poor farmer with a daughter named Pogo. Pogo wanted to go to temple e...

Bob Hoskins as Mario. That movie sure kicked me in the face.

I think he would. It seems to me that it isn't youth and especially not ignorance that compels the lad to use a pogo-stick. You'd think someone with such a high IQ would have thought of something different than a pogo-stick, even at 8-yrs old. But honestly, those genius folks often do the most unexp...

Only the good die young.

speaking of a keen prequel, maybe a sort of keen epilogue game set in the future would be cool. young Billy could be an elderly William, and he could still be a prolific pogoist and galactic, or universal hero. point items could be smoking pipes, dentures (sp?), books (like in keen 1 I guess), and m...

i wonder if someone could take the guts of mario RPG and make a keen RPG from it. probably the pogo would be out but if it were a complete game and well done id sell my family to play it.

While we're on a related topic, has anyone made a good or even a bad Commander Keen RPG? I'd be into it either way.

Okay, if anyone is reading or going to read my piece that I've provided the link for up above, then I ought to tell you that it's finished now, unless I'm prompted by the community to continue. There'll be some wacky formatting issues for awhile and eventually it'll all be consolidated onto one blog...

That German site looks really cool to me, Tulip. Do wish I knew how to read German...

I'll catch some Germans though, sooner or later, and have them translate that whole site for me. I'm very curious.

Has anyone written reviews for all of or at least the more fashionable fan-made Keen games? I'd really like to know which ones are top-meat and which are "Bar-S" hot dogs (if you get my drift). Reviews would be a great addition to a website with downloads for all the fan made games.

I'm really a fan of the standard looking, silver colored, old school pogo sticks. like this one. -> http://www.vaiden.net/vintage_pogo_stick1.jpg I really want a good friend of mine to buy a pogo stick so that he be the only guy in town in hops to campus, smoking a cigarette, and taking swigs of his...

That's right, Rush! I remember that. My initial visits to the forum are sort of a blur for me now. He wasn't even charging for the works. Just the postage as I recall. That Keen art on buildings looks brilliant too. I hope that if I ever have a kid, he (and I hope it's a boy) gets to grow up with Co...

Toomuchsparetime, I really dig your drawings. Talk about Kosher. You hit a soft spot for me. I don't suppose you have a collection of Keen illustrations to share? Thought it was worth a shot. Congrats on your website and all. Looks like you know what you're doing.

Honestly, I couldn't eat brussel sprouts for years after playing that game. Were the sprouts the awful looking green fellows? It's been so long. I don't remember anymore. If Keen were in a "Meets the Meats" mod, I wish it would be a mod of episodes 4,5, or 6 and not of Dreams. That's right...