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Commander Keen

The game that proved id Software existed

id Software1990Platform, Action

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DOSBox-X

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The Story

Before id Software made Doom, four developers — John Romero, Tom Hall, Adrian Carmack, and John Carmack — built the first episode of Commander Keen in 72 hours as a demo for Apogee Software. The demo proved that smooth side-scrolling was possible on PC hardware, which everyone in the industry believed was impossible. Apogee published it by shareware. Commander Keen became a hit and gave id Software the runway to build Wolfenstein 3D.

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