"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 09/14/2013 at 09:52 • Filed to: OTBA

4

13

Apropos of nothing, did anybody else here play these games when they were younger?

m2m, apex detective > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/14/2013 at 10:09

0

I had one of them, though I don't quite remember which.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > m2m, apex detective 09/14/2013 at 10:20

0

Probably Episode IV (Secret of the Oracle):

It was a shareware episode that had Episode V (The Armageddon Machine) available for pay to complete the overall adventure. It's probably the best known.

Other ones you're likely to have had would Episode I (shareware for I-III) or Keen Dreams:

Keen Dreams was kind of a preview of the IV-VI engine and very weird, with evil celery and the like.

Episode VI was released in a different setup - more modern: free demo of a few levels, paid full game.

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/14/2013 at 11:03

0

Me! Me! I loved them! But I wasn't very good. It was back when I was really young.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather 09/14/2013 at 11:06

1

Still has some of the most immediately distinctive sound effects and music of any game short of Mario.

Earnest The Betrayer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/14/2013 at 12:16

0

Commander Keen rocked!

aquila121 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/14/2013 at 12:26

0

Commander Keen was my first exposure to the Packers (that was his helmet in the first 3 games, right?) and one-hit platforming that wasn't Sonic. Good times.

But you know what you reminded me of that I loved even more?

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > aquila121 09/14/2013 at 13:07

0

Doug TenNapel made another excellent game you may or may not have heard of.

m2m, apex detective > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/14/2013 at 13:08

0

You might be on to something there ... I think I remember that craft and not being able to complete a certain part. ;)

aquila121 > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 09/14/2013 at 14:13

0

Weirdest, most enjoyably nonsensical and monotonous music I've heard this month.

SteyrTMP > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/14/2013 at 15:20

0

Yep, I played all of them. I was very upset when Apogee/ID went down the Duke Nukem/Wolfenstein road before developing the last Keen game.

They were loads of fun. I still have the Keen series/Duke Nukem/Wolfenstein 3.5" floppy somewhere. My younger brother used to wait until our parents fell asleep, then sneak down to the livingroom, smother the computer so they couldnt hear the BIOS beeps, then play Keen for hours. Eventually, we went to DN, then Wolfenstein, and beyond, but I distinctly still remember those days. I give those days credit of why I've always been a second-shift sort of person.

feather-throttle-not-hair > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/14/2013 at 17:45

0

Yeah of course! And jazz jackrabbit and duke nukem.

feather-throttle-not-hair > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/14/2013 at 17:48

0

This childhood computer game had the best, worst, most distinctive sound effects. I can just see the dude who made the game at a mic going "Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah!!!!!"

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > m2m, apex detective 09/16/2013 at 08:49

0

Missing spaceship parts would have been Keen I.