Commander Keen in the Earth's Chaos
Commander Keen in the Earth's Chaos - Episode One: Video Game Rampage is an unfinished fangame created by Superadammario64 with The Games Factory. A demo released in July 23, 2002, with a promise that the full version would come out in either Christmas 2002 or January 2003. Shortly after the demo's release, however, the author quit making fangames, feeling that they weren't good enough. Since then, Superadammario64 has called Earth's Chaos his best fangame, in spite of its incompleteness and below average reception.[1][2]
In this game, Keen get sucked into his Nintendo 64, where he would visit different game worlds. The demo only contains two worlds (Mushroom Kingdom and Yoshi's Island) that span a total of eight levels. The gameplay is pretty simplistic; Keen can't use his pogo outside of one level and has unlimited ammo. However, there are a couple unique features, such as a shop and powerups, the latter of which are acquired throughout the story.
Outside of the main game, Earth's Chaos has a Breakout-style minigame called Space Breakout. The menu has a button for "Small PMW 2 Demo", but clicking it doesn't do anything. PMW 2 stands for Paper Mario World 2, another unfinished fangame Superadammario64 was working on. Interestingly, the demo for that game (currently unavailable) includes a menu option for the Earth's Chaos demo, labeled "Commander Keen Demo". It is unknown if selecting that does anything.[3]
The demo for Earth's Chaos is unprotected, so it can be opened with TGF, Click & Create, and their successors.
Story
As stated in the in-game story section:
8 Year Old Billy Blaze aka Commander Keen works on his newest invention. The game zapper which puts any one into a game and back out of it. Later that night someone broke into the house and only Billy woke up. He put on his clothes and helmet and quietly went downstairs. But suddenly the person caught Billy by surprise. It was Mortimer McMire! And he had the Game Zapper.
''So Mr 314 I guess this time I will rule the Galaxy and destroy the earth'' He said. ''What are you talking about?'' Keen said. "I will use my newest Satalite Zapper and destroy the Earth then I have other plans over at my Hq" He said. Then he zaped Keen with the game Zapper to his N64. Hope you have good look at the explosion of the Earth Commander Clown ha ha ha! Now Keen must first try to get out of this game and then stop Mortimer from his evil plan. Can you help Keen save the day?
Passwords
Only two passwords are offered in the demo:
- Yoshi's Island: yoshi
- world (given after defeating the Big Boo boss, but no level is assigned to this password)
Music
Filenames are derived from the demo's source. All of the non-Keen MIDI files are available in VGMusic (which is where the titles come from).
| Levels used | Length | Filename | Title | Original game | Sequencer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title screen | 2:11 | s3db_sg_17 | Dr. Robotnik Version 2 | Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis) | John Weeks |
| Menu | 0:21 | smw2stg1 | Welcome to Yoshi's Island | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island | Chris Francis |
| Space Breakout | 0:47 | snake | The Mambo Snake Gonna Eat You, Boy! | Keen 6 | Bobby Prince |
| Story, "world" password | 0:12 | a_world_of_wonde... | In a Land of Wonderment and Awe | Keen 4/Keen 6 | Bobby Prince |
| Game Over | 0:15 | endagame | Welcome to a Kick In Yore Pants In Good Ole Hillville! (remix) | The Rule of a Yorp's Dinner | Ilsoap |
| Mushroom Kingdom | 0:31 | another kick in ... | Welcome to a Kick In Yore Pants In Good Ole Hillville! | Keen 4 | Bobby Prince |
| Shop | 1:59 | ecoastazure_ask | Emerald Coast 1 - "Azure Blue World" (2) | Sonic Adventure | ? |
| Yoshi's Island (part 1) | 9:19 | zd64-03 | Hyrule Field | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | Asa |
| Yoshi's Island (cutscene, part 2) | 1:04 | zmm_overworld_v1-1 | Termina Field (v1.1) | The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | Sir Pikehan |
| Yoshi's Island (part 3) | 1:08 | s3angelisland1a | Angel Island Zone: Act 1 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3 | ? |
| Big Boo chase | 2:03 | chase | Chasing the Axem Rangers | Super Mario RPG | Alluro95 |
| Big Boo fight | 1:05 | boss1 | Boss | Super Mario RPG | Jason Zaffary |
| Final cutscene | 0:15 | eatatjoe | Space Funk | Keen 6 | Ilsoap |
References
- ↑ DOS Classics (Wayback Machine link)
- ↑ YouTube video: Return to Paper Mario World - Act IV (warning: foul language)
- ↑ YouTube video: Return to Paper Mario World - Act V Part 1 (warning: foul language)