How did you discover Keen?

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How did you discover Keen?

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What brought you to the awesome games that are the subject of this brilliant forum? :disguised :disguised
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the fact the game was more fun than posting in this thread




I had some floppy disks
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Ahh the good old days of the floppy disks :british
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DeathByNeuralStunner wrote:Ahh the good old days of the floppy disks :british
no, I couldn't listen to the soundever again.

And I was barely alive for the last few years before they became obsolete.

Kind of like dial-up. *shudder*
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The 5 1/4 sound was MUUUUUCH worse. When I turned the computer on in the middle of the night, the 5 1/4 floppy drive would wake up the entire house.
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Woah that seems bad
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I'm sorry to say I'm a noobie here, and I only discovered keen by leafing through the archive of ID's titles.
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My sister got Keen 4 as a present from our cousins (I got Word Rescue 1).
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My grandfather had Keen4 and Keen1 on his old IBM machine. I think he got them as freebies from a mailing list. Probably PCMag or something. One of the services that actually mailed you floppies. 8)
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My uncle is one of the coolest people I've ever met.
He is the one who introduced me to Apogee and ID games back in the day. He was a huge fan of Keen, and thanks to him, I got to play the entire Keen series (including Dreams, excluding Keen5) when I was only three years old.

He worked for some computer company, so he gave me one of their old DOS computers they were just going to throw out when they upgraded their systems when I was about 7, which I used to play the entire Apogee and ID catalog religiously and make crappy Q-Basic games.

Ah, those were the days. :)

I used to have nearly the entire registered Apogee collection on floppy disks, but they got lost or destroyed over the years. I wanted to buy them back online, but they're so rare and expensive it's ridiculous. So for now, these treasures only exist in my massive 10GB archive of DOS games .ZIP files.
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Post by Scarlet »

My parents friend gave me several games. One of them was keen one. :)

Shortly afterwards I got keen 4.

The guy didn't introduce me to everything he had at once. :D And he could beat many levels, was better at the game than me. :)
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good ol keen4 back in like 94
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RoboBlue wrote:The 5 1/4 sound was MUUUUUCH worse. When I turned the computer on in the middle of the night, the 5 1/4 floppy drive would wake up the entire house.
Got rhythm!




ANYWAY, Isn't there already a thread about this? Ah yes, topic 666
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Also, another thread on the first page of the forum that this thread should have been posted in.
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RoboBlue wrote:Also, another thread on the first page of the forum that this thread should have been posted in.
Ah, missed that one.
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