35 years ago today, Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons – Episode 1: Marooned on Mars was data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen_in_Invasion_of_the_Vorticons” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen_in_Invasion_of_the_Vorticons” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>released. This DOS game might be somewhat lost in the sands of time, obscured by stellar PC gaming achievements soon to follow, but its success was important as it led directly to the establishment of id Software. You know, the folks behind data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/wolfenstein-3d-publisher-recalls-fight-to-distribute-game-in-germany-plain-packaging-and-porn-stores-came-to-the-rescue-of-1990s-fps-gamers” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/wolfenstein-3d-publisher-recalls-fight-to-distribute-game-in-germany-plain-packaging-and-porn-stores-came-to-the-rescue-of-1990s-fps-gamers”>Wolfenstein 3D, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/doom-ported-to-run-directly-from-a-pdf-file-doompdf-port-runs-at-approximately-12-5-fps” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/doom-ported-to-run-directly-from-a-pdf-file-doompdf-port-runs-at-approximately-12-5-fps”>Doom, and other beyond-seminal 3D FPS titles.
The theme topic of this first Commander Keen title isn’t really important. What was groundbreaking at the…
