Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter is the final Commander Keen to be released for PC way back in 1991, until Id Software decided to pursue other projects. Using the same engine as Keens 4 & 5, Keen 6 contains the same great gameplay, level design, music and the quirky cast of monsters that you've come to expect from this great series of games.
In this game, young Billy Blaze's babysitter Molly (who we later discover is in fact Mortimer McMire's older sister), has been kidnapped by the Bloogs of Fribbulus Xax.
Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter is the final Commander Keen to be released for PC way back in 1991, until Id Software decided to pursue other projects. Using the same engine as Keens 4 & 5, Keen 6 contains the same great gameplay, level design, music and the quirky cast of monsters that you've come to expect from this great series of games.
In this game, young Billy Blaze's babysitter Molly (who we later discover is in fact Mortimer McMire's older sister), has been kidnapped by the Bloogs of Fribbulus Xax. Billy visits the planet in order to find his babysitter before his parents return home. The game contains 15 fun filled levels, although I would recommend players to play in either
Normal or Hard mode, since you'll miss out on over half of the cool new monsters if you play in Easy mode. And Easy mode is a cakewalk anyway, and takes away from the challenge and fun of the game.
The levels included in the game are Bloogswater Crossing, Guard Post One, Guard Post Two, Guard Post Three, First Dome of Darkness, Second Dome of Darkness, Bloogfood Inc, Bloog Manufacturing Corp, Bloogtower, Bloogville, BASA and more. The levels are quite detailed and interesting, and in order to advance through the game map, you will need to find a giant sandwich, a grappling hook and rope, and a rocket pass in order to fly off to a Bloog recreational center.
The game also contains a secret level, and it's quite easy to access it (in comparison to Keens 4 & 5), and you simply pass through the final level in the world map, and wait for a flying satellite to pick up Keen and fly him over to the Space Station.
Apart from the Bloogs, other wacky enemies include the Nospikes (which charge at you with their horns), Flects (shooting their mirror-like teeth with ricochet onto Billy and stun him), Fleexes (6-eyed monsters that are practically blind, and are quite slow to react), Blorbs (similar to the Slicestar in Keen 5, but are invulernable to your neural stunner, and are signifcantly slower), Orbatrixes (harmless until they roll up into a ball and go wild), and Bips (the weakest enemies in the history of the Keen games, apart from the Foobs, but while they're in their tiny ships, they shoot lasers at Keen).
Although this game wouldn't take you very long to complete (took me no more than a few hours), Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter is a highly recommendable side scroller for fans of these sorts of retro PC games.
