Commander Keen and the Invasion of My Computer!

Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons came out in 1990 from Apogee software. It was a big hit, leading to the development of six more Commander Keen games. When I was little, my sister's best friend's dad had the fourth one on his computer, and if I was lucky enough to be there when my mom stayed to talk at their house for a few hours, I sometimes got to play Keen. It burned in my memory forever.

Yesterday, I began pondering my loneliness and boredom. C.S. Lewis may be one of my highly esteemed authors, but after this month-long class I am taking on his works, I find I am burning out. I decided I needed a diversion. Since I didn't have a console handy (I am more of a console than a PC gamer) I looked around online. AND I found Keen, as a free download, at DOS games archive. Hooray!

Who needs friends? Who needs homework? OR papers? Or books? Or walleyball, even? I've got DOS games, Keen especially, at my beck and call. Once I accustom myself to the not-so-great graphics (i.e. once I stop getting motion sickness from looking at them) I will have paradise here. Well, not so much. But anyways.

Commander Keen and the "Beef-with-Bean" Rocket, here I come!