E3 2019: Commander Keen Is Coming Back, But…
Retro gaming fans got a BIG surprise from Bethesda this evening….and then their expressions quickly changed. Everyone has a “rage moment” at E3, and we don’t mean the good kind of rage. That point when a company announces news that not only disappoints, but smashes all your hopes. For me, it was finding out Microsoft had purchased Double Fine, making a Switch or PS4 release of Psychonauts 2 impossible. For a lot of others, it was the appearance of Commander Keen. Commander Keen is an iD Software creation that predates Doom by several years. He was a little kid with a laser gun who hopped around alien worlds, and his original DOS game popularized the concept of shareware. Many a youngster had a blast guiding Keen through his garish CGA-tinted universe, and the sudden appearance of a game by that name tonight made those now-grown-up fans jump up and holler. COMMANDER KEEN!?!?!??!?!?!?! Be still my heart pic.twitter.com/tr4xpr4iD6 — Blake Grundman (@GrundyTheMan) June 10, 2019 Then the rest of the trailer