Basically the story line to this game is a kid named Billy has become stranded on the planet mars and his space ship needs many hard to find parts. So each time you finish a level you receive a new part for your ship.
The game is a scroll across the screen game and to those of you who have grown up playing this in the 1990’s you will find it as refreshing game of nostalgia. Compared to today’s 3-dimension, 4-dimensional games it just doesn’t quite match up to those standards.
I first played this game when I was in primary school at the tender age of 10. I was lucky enough to have a friend who supplied me with all the latest DOS games back then like: Commander Keen, 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, Captain Comic, Duke Nukem, Alley Cat and of course the ever reliable monopoly. I guess I became an addict to the Commander keens and would spent hours on the computer until I had completed every last aspect of the game even if that meant spending hours on one level just to get all the special points etc.
If you liked all the original DOS games you will certainly enjoy playing them again. I have been looking for these games for awhile as my partner
has never played these being an Atari and Sega person. It makes for interesting conversations as I just play the games for the games themselves but they like to go into minute details about graphics, screen speed, quality of the characters themselves which I believe takes all the enjoyment of these games.
The controls on this game are basic keyboard buttons. You can change the keys to move Billy around but the keys I used in most of my DOS games back then were: The arrow keys to make the directional turns, control to make him jump, the alt key to fire on unsuspecting alien life forms or anything else that dared to move.
So if I haven’t bored you to pieces yet I have fallen in love with this old DOS game as it symbolizes where we have come from in regards to our computer games and technologies. Where once a computer would take up a size of a room it can now fit into the palm of your hand and is about 1000 times faster with about the same capacity of its early models. The Commander keen series is still once of the best DOS games and I would certainly recommend it to anybody looking for a trip down memory lane or just looking for some entertainment without all the violence and gore of modern games.
