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Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons: Marooned on Mars

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Game Information

Original Release Date: December 14, 1990

Platforms: DOS

Involved Companies: id Software, Apogee Software

Genres: Platform

Summary: Commander Keen's very first adventure, and the debut of id's groundbreaking side-scrolling technology. In the game you play the role of Commander Keen: the alter-ego of an eight year-old genius by the name of Billy Blaze. When Billy learns that the Earth is in danger, he dons his brother's football helmet and his homemade interstellar spaceship to become Commander Keen -- Defender of the Earth!

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This work is part of CSCI E-114, Web Application Development with Jamstack, Harvard Extension School. All video game data was obtained from The Internet Game Database (IGDB).