Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars
id Software's first game, December 1990, published by Apogee: eight year old Billy Blaze, a pogo stick, sixteen levels of Mars and the four parts of his ship the Vorticons hid. This is the shareware episode, Marooned on Mars, the whole of it, running in DOSBox compiled to WebAssembly. EGA, sixteen colours, and the PC speaker is all the sound it ever had.
Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars
A tenth of a megabyte, fetched once and then kept by your browser.
Keen starts on the map of Mars. Walk into a city and press Ctrl to go in.
- W S A D or the arrows
- move, and pick a place on the map
- Ctrl
- jump, and enter a place on the map
- Alt
- pogo stick on and off, once you have found it
- Ctrl and Alt together
- fire the raygun
- Space
- status screen
- F5
- save
- Esc
- quit to the menu
- F
- fullscreen
Commander Keen is id Software's, copyright 1990, licensed to Apogee Software for distribution. This is the shareware episode from Apogee's own ftp site, whose vendor.doc says everyone can and is encouraged to copy, upload and pass the program around without charging for it; the files are in the bundle unchanged. The other two episodes are sold by id's owners today. Where every game in the arcade comes from, with its terms, is on the arcade page.