Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars

Inside the secret city

Inside the secret city
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Late one night in 1990, when John Carmack and Tom Hall were working on a new EGA engine for a side-scrolling game Carmack finally accomplished what he had been working on for quite some time, smooth scrolling using EGA. Commander Keen is the first game that supported both horizontal and vertical scrolling on an IBM PC.

While Commander Keen is exploring Mars, the Vorticon steal four vital components of his ship and hide them in Martian cities, each guarded by a Vorticon soldier. In this episode, Keen acquires his trademark pogo stick and meets a variety of Martian aliens and robots.

You can download this game for free here: keen1.zip

All screenshots for Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars:

thumbnail The title screen
Commander Keen: Marooned...
The title screen
thumbnail The opening screen
Commander Keen: Marooned...
The opening screen
thumbnail A Yorp statue inside a Martian shrine
Commander Keen: Marooned...
A Yorp statue inside a Martian shrine
thumbnail An outside level with a couple of friendly Yorps
Commander Keen: Marooned...
An outside level with a couple of friendly Yorps
thumbnail Commander Keen finds the legendary pogo stick
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Commander Keen finds the legendary pogo stick
thumbnail An ice level
Commander Keen: Marooned...
An ice level
thumbnail Look at that cute Yorp snowman!
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Look at that cute Yorp snowman!
thumbnail A dark situation inside a shrine
Commander Keen: Marooned...
A dark situation inside a shrine
thumbnail Somewhere inside a maze
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Somewhere inside a maze
thumbnail Underneath the maze near the transporter that brings Keen to the secret city
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Underneath the maze near the transporter that brings Ke...
thumbnail Inside the secret city
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Inside the secret city
thumbnail Looks like an easy level!
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Looks like an easy level!
thumbnail Vorticon Commander's Castle
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Vorticon Commander's Castle
thumbnail Lot's of locked up Gargs here
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Lot's of locked up Gargs here
thumbnail Poor Vorticon
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Poor Vorticon
thumbnail Keen discovers the Vorticon Mothership on his way home
Commander Keen: Marooned...
Keen discovers the Vorticon Mothership on his way home
thumbnail WHAT IS THIS ONE-EYED GREEN THING IN YOUR ROOM!!!!???
Commander Keen: Marooned...
WHAT IS THIS ONE-EYED GREEN THING IN YOUR ROOM!!!!???


Related to this screenshot

Thumbnail Inside the secret city
Thumbnail Secret hallways appearing in front of Hocus
Thumbnail If you can read this, you're too close. We're getting closer to the Museum's deepest secrets.
Thumbnail In Crystal Caves 3, hidden blocks pop up randomly when you hit them.
Thumbnail A Yorp statue inside a Martian shrine
Thumbnail An outside level with a couple of friendly Yorps
Thumbnail WHAT IS THIS ONE-EYED GREEN THING IN YOUR ROOM!!!!???
Thumbnail Ok, mom... (The end)
Thumbnail Billy's cute Yorp is sleeping in the backyard.
Thumbnail Some interesting graphics on the screens in the background on planet Deckstar. It also looks like there's a Yorp there!
Thumbnail Looks like an easy level!
Thumbnail Jumping around in the sweet candy world Candion.
Thumbnail The secret warp zone level
Thumbnail Pyramid of the Forbidden is one of the hardest levels on Shadowlands!
Thumbnail On planet Deserto, there's a secret level where Jazz transforms into one of the lizards. Some interesting artwork here, must be the development team!
Thumbnail Look at that cute Yorp snowman!
Thumbnail A dark situation inside a shrine
Thumbnail Lot's of locked up Gargs here
Thumbnail Pacman's twin brother is sleeping.
Thumbnail Warp zone!!!
Thumbnail The Stongehenge with the secret entry to the museum.
Thumbnail The secret passages connect the Storage room and the Tombs and Curses room.
Thumbnail A one-way passage that connects the Theatre to the mechanical room.
Thumbnail Welcome to the SPECIAL Room !!! You may get many extra men & points here... (And a cheatcode)
Thumbnail Exiting from the subterranean world into the main hall via the trapdoor. The flashing red eyes scared me to death!
Thumbnail Roger finds out exactly why Xenon is such a pile.
Thumbnail Keen has gathered 12 inchwormes and now a large ugly foot appears!
Thumbnail Some of the rocks can be pushed here
Thumbnail Jill isn't scared of those demons
Thumbnail Somewhere underground in Border Village, a huge statue of King Slug can be found!
Thumbnail Using his new swimming gear, Commander Keen swims to the Well of Wishes
Thumbnail This is the first level, located in a park.
Thumbnail The final theme is halloween, where you're followed by ghosts, like in pacman. After this level you begin in the park again.
Billy Blaze is also known as Commander Keen.
Thumbnail Commander Keen checks his ComputerWrist after landing on Shadowlands.
Thumbnail The foot takes Keen to the Pyramid of the Forbidden!
Thumbnail ZAP!
Thumbnail It's Commander Keen's helmet in the acid pool! That's really cruel.
Thumbnail Vorticon Commander's Castle
Thumbnail The first level: Station # 1. This one's already pretty hard, as you'll have to time your jumps very carefully.
Thumbnail In Crystal Caves you go from level to level in the main level. There's a cool volcano in the background!
Thumbnail The opening screen
Thumbnail The beautiful skyline
Thumbnail Casually glancing at the status line you happen to notice that you're in Space Quest XII!
Thumbnail There's Billy Blazes ass in the Pyramid of the Moons.

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Random screenshots

Level 91: Strolling thru the park. The secret is to trap the Trackbots. thumbnail
BAM! Eva Earlong hits Devan Shell in the face. Look how angry she is! thumbnail
Lot's of trouble brewing here. Even a walking rocket launcher! thumbnail
The storage room contains the Alchemy Machine puzzle, some crates and a very scary easter egg. thumbnail
Jill discovers the castle thumbnail
Roger feels pretty bad after eating that Big Belcher Combo. thumbnail
Roger falls in a pile of garbage somewhere on the Freighter thumbnail
The Blast from the Past golf course. The rocket takes the ball to another course. thumbnail
The mule likes the water from the Pool of Siloam. thumbnail
Jaffar isn't a great fighter, but he's strong. thumbnail
Level 17 (fun): Easy when you know how. Poor squashed lemming.. thumbnail
Some interesting graphics on the screens in the background on planet Deckstar. It also looks like there's a Yorp there! thumbnail