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Have you heard the story of how Commander Keen came about?
by AJ007 13y ago
Have you heard the story of how Commander Keen came about?
- samstave 13y agoNo, please educate me; this sounds interesting
- peterkelly 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen#Creation_and_development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen#Creation_and_dev... John Carmack and John Romero developed a clone of Super Mario 3 for the PC using a smooth-scrolling technique that had never been achieved on the platform before. They went and showed Nintendo, who weren't interested. So they changed the name, artwork, and levels and went off to start id software and all the money went to them instead.