About Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars
Commander Keen is the first truly "commercial quality" game to be distributed as shareware. It features ultra-high-speed smooth-scrolling EGA graphics and superb sound effects. The animation and scrolling is updated at nearly 40 frames per second, for comparison, motion picture quality cartoons are filmed at only 24 frames per second.
The story of Commander Keen is epic, and in the style of the memorable matinee serials, like Flash Gordon. You play the role of Billy Blaze, an eight-year-old kid genius who builds an interstellar ship when not working at home on his college fast-track degree. Among other household objects, Billy uses his Nintendo joystick for flight control and his mom's vacuum cleaner (heavily modified) for his ship's ion propulsion system (with pile height adjustment).
At the hint of galactic trouble, Billy dons his brother's football helmet and becomes "Commander Keen" defender of Earth! Ever on the side of justice, fairness, and high-calorie junk food, Keen dispenses justice with an iron hand.
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What genre is Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars?
Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars is a Platformer, Arcade, Action game, released in 1990.
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Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars is a platformer game from 1990. Fans of this game often enjoy titles like Doom 3, Red Faction, Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition. You can add it to your backlog on nxto.app to track it.
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