A Look Back at Commander Keen  10 years ago, a group of
programmers and artists working at Softdisk created a piece of
software that laid the foundation for just about every popular
computer game today.  Working for a company that didn't want to
make use of the program that they created, these guys instead
turned to shareware pioneer Scott Miller to publish their first
game.  The company is id Software, and the game is Commander
Keen!  Keen 1 Title ScreenOn December 14, 1990, a landmark
computer game was released.  Episode 1 of Commander Keen came
out this day in 1990, and forever changed PC computing. 
Commander Keen was id Software's first big game, and along with
the original Duke Nukem (released in 91), Apogee Software was
recognized as the place to go to for hot, shareware games.  Keen
(like every other Apogee title) was released under the (at the
time) unheard of concept of giving away part of your game for
free.  The entire first episode of Keen was released to the
world as shareware.  The idea was tha