What Keen games do you have on your computer?

[Syllypryde]

Some of you are probably thinking this is just the same topic worded differently. Topics I had posted before:

What mods are you playing?
What mods have you completed ?
What mods have replay value?
Now this new topic is What Keen games do you have your computer? The reason this topic is different is because what games you have on your hardrive might not necessarily fit in the previous 3 topics.

So here is what is on my computer:

Marooned on Mars
Marooned on Mars: Galaxy
The Earth Explodes
The Earth Explodes Gold
Keen Must Die!
Keen Dreams Plus
Keen Dreams Gold
Secret of the Oracle
Secret of the Oracle Ultimate
The Armageddon Machine
Aliens Ate my Babysitter
The Keys of Krodacia
Dead in the Desert
Dead in the Desert Community Level Pack
Battle of the Brains
Keen is At It Again!
The Life of Mars
Yorphius II
Episode Smile
A New Dope
Keen Extinction
Fall Up
Fastest Gun in the West
Planet of Agony
Keen Sunset
Episode X
Episode X Community Level Pack
Episode Y
Episode Null
Episode Z
Aqua Keen 1: Red Tide
Aque Keen 2: Seas Will Cease
Aqua Keen 3: Doomsday
Where’s My Bears?
Lego Keen
Lego Levels
Clouds Unseen
Crash on Gobo III
Planet Destruction
Tribulation of the Yorps
Kidnapped Keen
Zapping the Zot
Return of the Guardians
The Adventures of the Oracle Janitor
Mystery of the Monastery
Space Pirate Trouble
The Perilous Pursuit
Story Land
Onward Silcar 1: The Nightmare Before Teatime
Onward Silcar 2: Flee from Fleet
Onward Silcar 3: The Evil That Meets the Eye
Onward Silcar 4: The Civilization Inside
Shmaynoria
Marta’s Moon Adventure
Lunar Quest
Keen Rescue
Commander Bleen
How Bleen Saved Kwanzaa
Keen 0 Plus
The Last Moon
Bad Dreams
The Clones of Evil
Alien Vs. Keen
Armageddon II
Monochrome
Revenge of Mortimer 1: Mort's Rescue
Revenge of Mortimer 2: Flames on Earth
Revenge of Mortimer 3: The Squeek Battle
The Mortrix
Death to the Vorticons 1
Death to the Vorticons 2: The Past
Death to the Vorticons 3: Fall of the Sudkoka
Bonus Episode: Fathership’s Revenge
Mr. Black’s Keen 3 Level Pack
Shikadi’s 2nd Keen 3 Level Pack
Keen T
Shadowkeen 3: The Planet of Terror
Shadowkeen 4: Zoltan's Revenge
Ye Olde Pirate Modde
Episode Dash
The Bobrick Tower
Foray in the Forest
Another Helping of Veggies
Keen Meets the Meats
Keen Xmas 2010
Return to the Shadowlands
Operation Station Infiltration
Short Circuit Oracle
The Armageddon App
Buried in Oblivion
The Sunnylands
Mr. Black’s Keen 4 Level Pack
Atroxian Realm
The Alphamatic
Aurora Bliss
Canmore's Redemption
Revival of Bliss
Operation Ocflore
The Terror from Outer Space
Bounty Hunting Brouhaha
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Send in the Clorts
Valentine Bash
The Grand Intelligence 4: Intelligent Intellect
DarkAle’s Keen 5 Level Pack
Keen Asylum
Billy Can’t
Markeen 5
Suburb Shenanigans
Twenty To
CK Guy’s Keen 5 Level Pack
Back to Fribbulus Xax
Alien’s Ate My Babysitter… Again
The Rapid Pack
Mink’s Puzzle Pack
The Eight Accumulators
Dimensional Chaos: Mirror Menace
The Ultra Omegamatic
The Armageddon Continues
Secret of the Sorcerer
Hello Galaxy! The Galaxy Making Laser
The Ruins of Roib
Underworld Ultimate!
The Mystery of Isis II
Planet Cloudius IX

[Nospike]

Definitely not as many as you but basically every time I download a mod or levelpack to play it I never delete it and just keep it forever. I lost my "collection" once when switching to a new computer but otherwise I keep them all.
Except for Battle of the Brains, I always seem to misplace that one and have to go looking for a download link all over again every time I decide I want to play it.

[Syllypryde]

Definitely not as many as you but basically every time I download a mod or levelpack to play it I never delete it and just keep it forever. I lost my "collection" once when switching to a new computer but otherwise I keep them all.
Except for Battle of the Brains, I always seem to misplace that one and have to go looking for a download link all over again every time I decide I want to play it.

How do you misplace that exactly?

[Nospike]

I wish I knew. The game is cursed, it keeps disappearing on me. Maybe it's what makes playing it feel so rewarding each time.

[AndyFox]

Commander Keen 0 (The Adventure Begins : Episode Zero - Printed to Pluto) - version 1.21 (2016)
Commander Keen 1 (Invasion of the Vorticons : Episode One - Marooned on Mars) - version 1.31 (1990)
Commander Keen 2 (Invasion of the Vorticons : Episode Two - The Earth Explodes) - version 1.31 (1990)
Commander Keen 3 (Invasion of the Vorticons : Episode Three - Keen Must Die!) - version 1.31 (1990)
Commander Keen 3.5 (Keen Dreams) - version 1.93 (1993)
Commander Keen 4 (Goodbye, Galaxy! : Episode IV - Secret of the Oracle) - version 1.4 (1991)
Commander Keen 5 (Goodbye, Galaxy! : Episode V - The Armageddon Machine) - version 1.4 (1991)
Commander Keen 6 (Aliens Ate My Babysitter) - version 1.5 (1991)
Commander Keen 7 (The Keys of Krodacia) - version 2.00 (2006)
Commander Keen 8 (Dead in the Desert) - version 3.20 (2009)
Commander Keen 9 (Battle of the Brains) - version 2.50 (2011)
Commander Keen 9.5 (The Eight Accumulators) - version 1.00 (2011)
Commander Keen 10 (Mirror Menace) - version Beta III (2013)
Commander Keen 13 (The Ultra Omegamatic) - version 2.00 (2020)
Commander Keen 13.5 (The Armageddon Continues) - version 1.10 (2020)
Commander Keen 14 (Secret of the Sorcerer) - version 1.93 (2020)

[Benvolio]

Nice line-up, AndyFox, however to me Keen0 will always be entropicdecay's mod (April Fools edition of course)!

[Syllypryde]

Nice line-up, AndyFox, however to me Keen0 will always be entropicdecay's mod (April Fools edition of course)!

This post wasn't what I was expecting. After posting 120+ Keen games on my computer I was expecting you to ask me why nothing in the list was yours. I have played most if not all of them once or twice in the past, especially Musical Keen, which I thought about downloading again just recently. They were all in my download folder at one time, but I cannot remember what happened to them. Obviously they were never added to my Commander Keen folder on my desktop. Maybe one day soon I will check them out again.

[Benvolio]

Sadly most of my mods over the years were, even at the best of times, quite annoying to play through, so I don't blame you. But hearing mention of efforts such as "Musical Keen" brings me feelings of pleasant nostalgia for a time when I felt creative inspiration which truly drove me to get things done!

I too have a "collection" of mods on various discs and computers! Nothing particularly irreplaceable of course. Worryingly my old Compaq laptop wouldn't boot up at all the last time I was at my parents' place.

More worrying - and a cautionary tale - is that a CDR is not the safe haven of data backup that one once naively thought it was. At least one old disc from about 2002 probably does have the only copies of some stuff I was doing back then but it got rendered unreadable by sunlight in the intervening years.

Further back, in my pre-Keening days, my life was revolutionised when my dad gave me a whole 100MB Zip Disk to keep my files in... almost like getting my own computer in a way. (Back then his main hard drive was only 1GB). I think I have most of the files off the Zip Disk.

[Syllypryde]

Sadly most of my mods over the years were, even at the best of times, quite annoying to play through, so I don't blame you. But hearing mention of efforts such as "Musical Keen" brings me feelings of pleasant nostalgia for a time when I felt creative inspiration which truly drove me to get things done!......

The reason I mentioned Musical Keen is because that is the only one that stands out right now. If you gave me a list of mods and asked me to pick which ones are yours I could probably remember the right ones for the most part, but off the top of my head I can't remember a single one except Musical Keen.

[lestagio]

Keen 0: Printed to Pluto
Keen 1: Marooned on Mars
Keen 2: The Earth Explodes
Keen 3: Keen Must Die!
Keen Dreams
Keen Dreams Gold Edition
Keen Dreams Definitive Edition (awful "reimagining" of dreams)
Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle
Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine
Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Babysitter!
Keen GBA (rom file)
Keen 7: The Keys of Krodacia
Keen 8: Dead in the Desert
Keen 9: Battle of the Brains
Marooned on Mars: Galaxy Edition
Aurora Bliss
Canmore's Redemption
Revival of Bliss
Atroxian Realm
Suburb Shenanigans
Operation Ocflore
Inside the Vorticon Hyve (WIP Keen 2 mod)
Foray in the Forest

I have a decent amount of Keen games, still collecting more! I also have an unfinished mod of my own on my computer, but I don't know if that counts!

[Syllypryde]

I've noticed Keen 0: Printed to Pluto mentioned a couple times already.

[Toothpick]

Currently I have...

Keen 1: Marooned on Mars
Marooned on Mars - Galaxy Mod
Keen 2: The Earth Explodes
The Earth Explodes - Galaxy Mod (WIP)
Keen 3: Keen Must Die!
Keen Dreams
Keen Dreams Gold
Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle
Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine
Keen 6: Aliens Ate My Babysitter!
Keen 7: The Keys of Krodacia
Keen 8: Dead in the Desert
Keen 9: Battle of the Brains
Keen Xmas 2010
Keen 9.5: The Eight Accumulators
Zoltan's Revenge
Return to the Shadowlands
Operation Station Infiltration
Aurora Bliss
DarkAle's New Keen 5 Levelpack
Foray in the Forest
NetKeen
Clouds Unseen

[Roobar]

I used to have more, but due to migration of PCs over the years, I've lost some.

My current Vorticon mods:


My Galaxy mods:


My Keen fangames:

[Quillax]

I seem to have nearly 200 mods in my computer, along with about 25% of the fangames (which are mixed within a folder with non-Keen fangames) I say. This doesn't count any of the stuff I made. I also have all seven of the original Keen games, of course. I have all of Ceilick's mods up to Battle of the Brains within a Ceilick folder. I think I also had a folder for all of Benvolio's mods up to the 2011 fun pack (or Bunny Basher 2?), but I seem to have to lost it, probably due to a hard drive switch. I know I played a bunch of Levellord mods in the past, but I'm not sure if I have any in my computer right now, aside from ShadowKeen 2.

Seeing other people's lists, I find it interesting that two of them have all of my Vorticon mods except for The Morticore. I wonder why that's the case; was it just not as appealing as my other mods? Also, Syllypryde, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on my mods (Sunnylands included, which you seemed to have beaten) if you don't mind, whether in a forum reply or a PM. I like having new feedback, and I think you do a really good job at that kind of stuff. By the way, it makes me smirk seeing Fastest Gun in the West in your list. I remember when KeenRush made a joke response to that.

[Nisaba]

I maintain a mirror of each and every Keen game hosted on the KeenWiki servers as a backup on my private servers—just in case, you know. While working on the wiki, I've delved into nearly every Galaxy mod, but approached them more from a developer's perspective, if you catch my drift. The full mods that have truly impressed and influenced me end up (slightly modified of course) on my custom handheld, which I dust off every now and then to play one of those games.
As a humble student I generally enjoy everything that comes out of Levellass' creative workshop, including Vorticon (!) mods.

Oh, and nearly two decades ago, in a fit of madness, I took it upon myself to play every Keen mod and fangame out there. An utopian endeavor, as even my younger me came to realize. There are just way too many! Instead, I do my best to maintain the countless mods and fangames out there as best as I can.