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Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons is a three-part episodic side-scrolling platform video game developed in the U.S. by Ideas from the Deep (a precursor to id Software) and published by Apogee Software in 1990 for MS-DOS. The game follows an eight-year-old genius as he defends Earth against an alien mothership and hunts down its leader on another planet. Gameplay involves running, jumping, and shooting aliens and robots. After John Carmack developed a way to implement side-scrolling video games on personal computers, he and his coworkers were approached by Scott Miller of Apogee to develop an original game. Tom Hall designed the three-part game, Carmack and John Romero programmed it, Jay Wilbur managed the team, and artist Adrian Carmack helped later in development. The trilogy was an immediate success, lauded for its graphical achievement and humorous style, and id Software went on to develop other successful games, including Wolfenstein 3D (1992) and Doom (1993). (Full article...)
PresN (and anyone else interested): thoughts and edits are welcome. This is the last batch of blurbs for older FACs for a while. I'll be starting a wikibreak tomorrow, but I'll keep an eye on this page. - Dank (push to talk) 15:25, 26 December 2019 (UTC)