Snow
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 12:42
Does snow make people think of Commander Keen? Or is it just me?
Not sure why it makes me think of Keen. It doesn't snow much in Ireland and I don't think there was any snow at all in the years when I was getting into Keen.
I was always in particular fond of the ice levels in Keen1, probably more than any other Keen scenery... such a sense of mystery about it, you really felt like anything could happen to you in those levels.
I think seeing all that snowy stuff in Keen reminded me of playing in the snow earlier in childhood. We had some good snow years. In fact for years I think my dad had a webpage with an animated gif of a snow bear me/him/my sister made in about 1996... can't find it now on his site. I find snow evokes a sense of how things used to be... in particular I imaging it snowed all the time in the 1980s, a decade with which I can be quite obsessed. See videos of "Pictures of You", "Always" etc... and we all know that everything in the 1980s was building up to Commander Keen!
Anyway we've been having a lot of unseasonable snow here this year for some reason. It's just started up again today.
We're not like the North Americans etc... when a foot of snow falls here the country shuts down for a week and calls it "The Beast From The East". And nobody shovels the snow outside their premises... very dangerous, we could do with borrowing some american state laws on this issue!
Anyway snow has fallen and here I am on the PCKF. Have a hankering to play some ice levels... or make some?
Not sure why it makes me think of Keen. It doesn't snow much in Ireland and I don't think there was any snow at all in the years when I was getting into Keen.
I was always in particular fond of the ice levels in Keen1, probably more than any other Keen scenery... such a sense of mystery about it, you really felt like anything could happen to you in those levels.
I think seeing all that snowy stuff in Keen reminded me of playing in the snow earlier in childhood. We had some good snow years. In fact for years I think my dad had a webpage with an animated gif of a snow bear me/him/my sister made in about 1996... can't find it now on his site. I find snow evokes a sense of how things used to be... in particular I imaging it snowed all the time in the 1980s, a decade with which I can be quite obsessed. See videos of "Pictures of You", "Always" etc... and we all know that everything in the 1980s was building up to Commander Keen!
Anyway we've been having a lot of unseasonable snow here this year for some reason. It's just started up again today.
We're not like the North Americans etc... when a foot of snow falls here the country shuts down for a week and calls it "The Beast From The East". And nobody shovels the snow outside their premises... very dangerous, we could do with borrowing some american state laws on this issue!
Anyway snow has fallen and here I am on the PCKF. Have a hankering to play some ice levels... or make some?