What exactly is this?

[Syberious]

I can buy this game with the money I got for selling some steam cards, but what is this game exactly, it's an collection of them, but, what is it..?

[NateM]

It's an old DOS game. I had tons of fun playing it back in my childhood.

[CommandConquer]

Yea, it's an old DOS game from the start of the 90's. Back then it was the only game I really had on the families PC as a kid.

[VulpesFoxnik]

It's a classic platformer origonally developed to port Mario World to PCs. Nintendo refused and Commander Keen was born. It's a side scroller platform, and you can get a gun with a limited amount of stun charges. The levels can be mazelike. It's still worth more than 10$ in my book. If you are looking for something to pass the time on, it's a very large bang for it's buck.

[Mangos]

An amazing platformer (or so i remember it to be from my childhood)

[Camel Master]

Nicolas Cage, wow, nice to meet you. Also a big fan of Commander Keen, had to buy it for pure nostalgia, played it when I was 3-4 years old, one of the first things I remember of my childhood

[Mathroy]

Hey guys, I'm about to buy it, anyone knows on the Bethesda/id Weekend Deal page Commander Keen is the price of the whole bundle? (which is 80$ something...) lol weird...

[CrunchyToast]

What times are we living in, when poor Nicolas Cage is being forced to sell Steam Trading Cards to acquire a game on Steam ?

About the game..I'd say it mostly lives on childhood memories nowadays. Depending on what you expect from a game, you might be disappointed by the (even back then) quite outdated audio/visual experience. I remember a friend of mine having this on his PC long ago and I could never grow to like it, mostly because all the other Jump'n'Runs (non PC ones) I knew were just way better presented and therefore more fun to play in my opinion. Still, its a lot of game and if you can overlook the flaws and have fun with it, then it will be worth it...Helpful, no ?

[Mount C]

Just play it and find out!

[Rahgorn]

I paid $1.24 for the Commander Keen pack. Can't get much better than that to bring back memories of some of my first computer games I played, ever! Dated graphics, for sure, but still love playing them!

[DukeBlanc]

I figured these games were a steal at little more than a dollar. It's like owning a piece of gaming history. I read the book 'Masters of DOOM' that talked about the starting of ID Software. The two guys who amazed the game market with DOOM got their start writing side scrolling platformers starring Commander Keen, a pre-pubescent genius who must collect various candies, cokes, and spaceship parts from every level in order to save Earth! It plays a lot like Mario Bros, but think space instead of the Mushroom Kingdom...personally, it reminds me of playing the old Duke Nukem platformers.

[Giu]

I used to play Commander Keen 4 on my first PC (Win95, 540mb hard-drive :P) and had lots of fun with it, especially when I found secret passages.
And Dopefish still rocks. :D

[Mystical]

I used to play commander keen as a kid so much, I can't beleive it was on steam. Still fun as ever, one of the best side scrolling games.

[The Almighty 404]

Dopefish still lives in our hearts...